Galatians 5:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust 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

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be an hundred and twenty years.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Galatians 3:17

Now this I say; A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

Galatians 6:8

For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

Colossians 2:11

in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 4:6

For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.