Galatians 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I say be guided by the Spirit and you won’t carry out your selfish desires.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.

Galatians 5:16 Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.

Romans 8:1

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 7:29

I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Galatians 6:8

If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

Colossians 2:11

In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by the removal of the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

1 Peter 4:6

For this is the reason the gospel was proclaimed even to the dead, so that, though they had been judged in the flesh as everyone is judged, they might live in the spirit as God does.