Galatians 5:16

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¹⁶^[a]Then I say, ^(A)Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

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Galatians 5:16 He acknowledgeth the great weakness of the godly, for that they are but in part regenerate: but he willeth them to remember that they are endued with the Spirit of God, which hath delivered them from the slavery of sin, and so of the Law so far forth as it is the virtue of sin, that they should not give themselves to lusts.

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1 Peter 2:11

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¹¹^[a]Dearly beloved, ^[b]I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, ^(A)^[c]abstain from fleshly lusts ^[d]which fight against the soul,

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1 Peter 2:11 He returneth to that general exhortation.
1 Peter 2:11 A reason why we ought to live holily, to wit, because we are citizens of heaven, and therefore we ought to live according to the Laws not of this world, which is most corrupt, but of the heavenly city, although we be strangers in the world.
1 Peter 2:11 Another argument: The children of God live not according to the flesh, that is, according to that corrupt nature, but according to the spirit. Therefore fleshly motions ought not to bear rule in us.
1 Peter 2:11 The third argument: for although those lusts flatter us, yet they cease not to fight against our salvation.

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