Walk by the Spirit
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I say then: u Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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For v the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, w so that you do not do the things that you wish.
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But x if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Now y the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
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idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
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envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that z those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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But a the fruit of the Spirit is b love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, c goodness, d faithfulness,
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gentleness, self-control. e Against such there is no law.
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And those who are Christ's f have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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g If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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h Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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Romans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
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Romans 7:15
For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
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Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another - to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
1 Timothy 1:9
Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.
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Romans 1:26 - 31
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
Ephesians 5:3
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints.
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
2 Timothy 3:2 - 4
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.
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1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites.
1 Corinthians 6:10
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
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John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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Romans 5:1 - 5
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up.
Colossians 3:12 - 15
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering.
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Romans 15:14
Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
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1 Corinthians 13:7
Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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1 Timothy 1:9
Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.
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Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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Romans 8:4
That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:5
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
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Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.