Galatians 5:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Galatians 5:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Romans 6:14-15
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. …
Galatians 5:25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Proverbs 8:20
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

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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 the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. “If ye are led (give yourselves up to be led) by (Greek) the Spirit, ye are not under the law.” For ye are not working the works of the flesh (Ga 5:16, 19-21) which bring one “under the law” (Ro 8:2, 14). The “Spirit makes free from the law of sin and death” (Ga 5:23). The law is made for a fleshly man, and for the works of the flesh (1Ti 1:9), “not for a righteous man” (Ro 6:14, 15).