Then Adonai said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. So their days will be 120 years.
Galatians 5:16 - Tree of Life Version But I say, walk by the Ruach, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Common English Bible I say be guided by the Spirit and you won’t carry out your selfish desires. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. |
Then Adonai said, “My Spirit will not remain with humankind forever, since they are flesh. So their days will be 120 years.
Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Messiah Yeshua.
But this I say, brothers and sisters—the time is short. From now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
What I am saying is this: Torah, which came 430 years later, does not cancel the covenant previously confirmed by God, so as to make the promise ineffective.
For the one who sows in the flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But the one who sows in the Ruach will reap from the Ruach eternal life.
We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.
In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision done not by hand, in the stripping away of the body of the flesh through the circumcision of Messiah.
Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.
Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.
Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.
For this was the reason the Good News was proclaimed even to those now dead, so that though they are judged in the flesh before humans, they might live in the Ruach before God.