Galatians 5:17

Easy To Read Version

Our sinful selves want things that are against the Spirit. The Spirit wants things that are against our sinful selves. These two different things are against each other. So you don’t do the things you really want to do.

Cross References

Psalm 119:133

Lord, guide me like you promised.\par Don’t let anything bad happen to me.\par

Psalm 119:159

Look, I try hard to obey your commands.\par Lord, with all your love, let me live.\par

Psalm 119:176

I wandered away like a lost sheep.\par Come looking for me, Lord.\par I am your servant,\par and I have not forgotten your commands.\par

Psalm 119:20

I want to study your decisions all the time.\par

Psalm 119:32

I will gladly obey your commands.\par Lord, your commands make me happy.\par

Psalm 119:35

Lord, lead me along the path\par of your commands.\par I truly love that way of living.\par

Psalm 119:40

Look, I love your commands.\par Be good to me and let me live.\par

Psalm 130:3

Lord, if you really punished people\par for all of their sins,\par no person would be left alive.\par

Psalm 65:3

When our sins become too heavy for us,\par you take away those sins.\par

Isaiah 6:5

I became very scared. I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure (good) enough to speak to God. And I live among people that are not pure enough to speak to God. {\cf2\super [66]} Yet I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Matthew 12:30

“If a person is not with me, then he is against me. The person that does not work with me is working against me.

Matthew 16:17

Jesus answered, “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah. No person taught you that. My Father in heaven showed you who I am.

Matthew 16:23

Then Jesus said to Peter, “Go away from me, Satan {\cf2\super [234]} ! You are not helping me! You don’t care about the things of God. You only care about things that people think are important.”

Matthew 26:41

Stay awake and pray for strength against temptation. Your spirit wants to do what is right. But your body is weak.”

Matthew 5:6

What great blessings there are for the people that want to do right more than anything else {\cf2\super [59]} !\par God will fully satisfy them.\par

Luke 22:33

But Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, I am ready to go to jail with you. I will even die with you!”

Luke 22:46

Jesus said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray for strength against temptation.”

John 3:6

A person’s body is born from his human parents. But a person’s spiritual life is born from the Spirit.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [64]} help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have \{true\} life.

Galatians 3:21

Does this mean that the law {\cf2\super [41]} is against God’s promises? No! If there was a law that could give life to people, then we could be made right by following law.

James 3:2

We all make many mistakes. If there were a person who never said anything wrong, then that person would be perfect. A person like that would be able to control their whole body, too.