Galatia 5:16

5:16 But I say, live ¹  by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. ² 

Galatia 5:18

5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Galatia 5:25

5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with ³  the Spirit.

Galatia 6:8

6:8 because the person who sows to his own flesh ⁴  will reap corruption ⁵  from the flesh, ⁶  but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

[5:16]  ¹ tn Grk “walk” (a common NT idiom for how one conducts one’s life or how one behaves).

[5:16]  ² tn On the term “flesh” (once in this verse and twice in v. 17) see the note on the same word in Gal 5:13.

[5:25]  ³ tn Or “let us also follow,” “let us also walk by.”

[6:8]  ⁴ tn BDAG 915 s.v. σάρξ 2.c.α states: “In Paul’s thought esp., all parts of the body constitute a totality known as σ. or flesh, which is dominated by sin to such a degree that wherever flesh is, all forms of sin are likew. present, and no good thing can live in the σάρξ…Gal 5:13, 24;…Opp. τὸ πνεῦμα…Gal 3:3; 5:16, 17ab; 6:8ab.”

[6:8]  ⁵ tn Or “destruction.”

[6:8]  ⁶ tn See the note on the previous occurrence of the word “flesh” in this verse.