17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. …
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-26)In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he presses upon them:— I. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. He tells them (Gal. 5:13) that they had been called unto liberty , and he would have them to stand fast in th…
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