24And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
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.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. …
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
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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