Galatians 5:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. ”

Galatians 5:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This I say then - This is the true rule about overcoming the propensities of your carnal natures, and of avoiding the evils of strife and contention. Walk - The Christian life is often repres...
Galatians 5:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(15) [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (15) He acknowledges the great weakness of the godly, because they are but in part regenerated: but he exho...
Galatians 5:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 5:13 to Galatians 6:10 . Practical appendix to the epistle; in the form of guarding the doctrine of free grace against antinomian abuse.
Galatians 5:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

in the Spirit . by spirit. App-101. not . Greek. ou me . App-105. fulfil . Greek. teleo . Compare App-125. flesh . See Romans 6:12 ; Romans 6:19 ; Romans 13:14 .
Galatians 5:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. This I say then. Now follows the remedy. The ruin of the church is no light evil, and whatever threatens it must be opposed with the most determined resistance. But how is this to be acco...
Galatians 5:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2082 WALKING IN THE SPIRIT, A PRESERVATIVE FROM SIN Galatians 5:16 . This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh . IN the Church of God, no les...
Galatians 5:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Walk in the Spirit - Get back that Spirit of God which you have grieved and lost; take up that spiritual religion...
Galatians 5:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

This I say then, walk in the Spirit, &c.— That is, "I have been cautioning you against that contentious temper which is so great a reproach to the professors of Christianity, and tends so much...
Galatians 5:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. This I say then - explaining Galatians 5:13 , 'What I mean is this.' Walk in the Spirit - `By х Pneu...
Galatians 5:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Nature of Christian Liberty 1-12. The futility of seeking justification by attempting to comply with the demands of the Mosaic Law; the inconsistency of works and faith as methods of salvation...
Galatians 5:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Walk. — Conduct yourselves: a metaphor very common in the writings of St. Paul, but not peculiar to them. It occurs three times in the Gospels, once in the Acts, thirty-three times in St. Paul’s Ep...
Galatians 5:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 23 CHRIST'S SPIRIT AND HUMAN FLESH. Galatians 5:16-26 LOVE is the guard of Christian freedom. The Holy Spirit is its guide. These principles accomplish what the law could never do. It...
Galatians 5:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Produce the Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:13-26 That Christ has freed us from the Law as a means of salvation does not free us from moral restraint, but brings us under the constraint of a hi...
Galatians 5:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The whole law of liberty is stated in the sentences, "For freedom did Christ set us free," "stand fast therefore," and "be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." He then refers first to circumci...
Galatians 5:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (17) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the on...
Galatians 5:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHRISTIAN WALK ‘This I say then, Walk in the Spirit.’ Galatians 5:16 It is important to observe that it is not the spirit of man that is here intended, but the Holy Sp...
Galatians 5:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This I say then, walk in the Spirit ,.... The advice the apostle thinks fit to give, and which he would have observed, is, to "walk in the Spirit", that is, either after the Spirit of God; making th...
Galatians 5:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Ver. 16. This I say then ] For an antidote against abuse of Christian liberty. Set the Spirit, as Pharaoh did...
Galatians 5:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I say then He now explains what he proposed Galatians 5:13 ; Walk in , or by, the Spirit Namely, the Spirit of God: follow his guidance, exercise his graces, and bring forth his fruits: at all...
Galatians 5:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LIBERTY TO BE PRACTICED (vs.1-6) Chapter 4 dealt with the perfect freedom introduced by God Himself through Christ, freedom given to all who have been redeemed by His precious blood, freedom from...
Galatians 5:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. A. D. 56....
Galatians 5:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Walk in the Spirit; the apostle having, Galatians 5:13 , cautioned them against turning the grace of God into wantonness, by using their liberty as an occasion to the flesh; here he directeth th...
Galatians 5:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Freedom is Not to Be Misinterpreted as Licence. They Must Walk in Love and By the Spirit ( Galatians 5:13-26 ). Paul now goes on to deal with the charge that the Gospel he is presenting gives men...
Galatians 5:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Galatians 5:13 . Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. —Do not give the flesh the handle or pretext for its indulgence, which it eagerly seeks for. By lov...
Galatians 5:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Galatians 5:1 . Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. «You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not su...
Galatians 5:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Galatians 5:1 . Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your c...
Galatians 5:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Flesh versus Spirit A Galatian Christian might argue that the religion of Christ had not wrought for him the deliverance which...
Galatians 5:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Galatians 5:1 Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you (ἴδε, ἐγὼ Παῦλος λώγω ὑμῖν); lo , I Paul say unto you. The adverbial exclamation ἴδε, found in St. Pa...
Galatians 5:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

This I say, then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 7:29 ; 1 John 2:15 ; 1 John 2:16 ; 1 Peter 1:14 ; 1 Peter 1:22 ; 1 Peter 2:11 ; 1 Peter 4:1-4 ; 1 Peter 4:6 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Colossians 2:11 ; Colossians 3:5-10 ; Ephes...
Galatians 5:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Much is written about the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. The Epistles of Paul are freighted with many marvelous messages relative t...
Galatians 5:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I say then — He now explains what he proposed, Galatians 5:13 . Walk by the Spirit — Follow his guidance in all things. And fulfil not — In anything. The desire of the flesh — Of corrupt nature.

Galatians 5:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Galatians 5:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Galatians 5:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Galatians 5:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Galatians 5:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Galatians 5:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Galatians 5:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Galatians 5:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Galatians 5:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Galatians 5:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 5:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Galatians 5:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes