Galatians 5:19 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁹ The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.

²¹ For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery, ²² greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly— ²³ all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."

⁶ Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

²¹ for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark. ²² They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools, ²³ and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles. ²⁴ So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies. ²⁵ For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen! ²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural, ²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done. ²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct. ²⁹ They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature. ³⁰ They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful, ³¹ conscienceless, treacherous, unloving, and unpitying. ³² They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

⁵ For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

¹⁸ For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.

²⁵ Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

³ For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

⁵ People who are controlled by the physical think of what is physical, and people who are controlled by the spiritual think of what is spiritual.

⁹ But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.

¹³ for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

³ for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom.

¹⁸ Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

²⁰ for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder, ²¹ and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

¹³ For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

¹⁷ For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please.

⁸ The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

¹⁷ So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding. ¹⁸ They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart, ¹⁹ for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice.

³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. ⁵ For you may be sure that no one who is immoral, or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have any share in the Kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

⁵ So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry. ⁶ It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming. ⁷ And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life. ⁸ But now you too must put them all aside—anger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk—these must be banished from your lips.

⁹ with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, ¹⁰ immoral people, men sexually perverted, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, or whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

³ For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

¹⁴ But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills. ³ You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry. ⁴ They are amazed that you no longer join them in plunging into the flood of dissipation, and they abuse you for it;

⁸ But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

¹⁵ The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it.