14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
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And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. …
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)We are here taught a lesson of sobriety and godliness in ourselves. Our main care must be to look to ourselves. Four things we are here taught, as a Christian’s directory for his day’s work: when to awake, how to dress ourselves, how to walk, and what provision to make. I. When to awake: Now it is high time to awake (Rom. 13:11), to awake out of the sleep of sin (for a sinful condition is a sleepi…
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