This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
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Gill's Exposition
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,.... By "flesh" is meant, not the carnal or literal sense of the Scripture, which is Origen's gloss, as militating against the spiritual sense of it; nor the…
Barnes' Notes
This I say then - This is the true rule about overcoming the propensities of your carnal natures, and of avoiding the evils of strife and contention. Walk - The Christian life is often represented as…
Adam Clarke
Walk in the Spirit - Get back that Spirit of God which you have grieved and lost; take up that spiritual religion which you have abandoned.
Ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh - If the Spirit…
In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he…
Cambridge Bible
The spiritual life of liberty inconsistent with the indulgence of the works of the flesh
16. This I say then After affirming the great law of Christian perfection in Gal 5:5 and pointing out the…
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