Galatians 5:17 Cross References
Galatians 5:17
17: The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.
John 3:6
- Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven.
Romans 8:13
- For if you keep on following it, you will perish. But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live.
Romans 8:5
- Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.
- If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace.
- For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.
- That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.
Psalms 119:20
- I am overwhelmed continually with a desire for your laws.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
- There is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and never sins.
James 4:5
- What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us, jealously longs for us to be faithful?
- He gives us more and more strength to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, "God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble."
Matthew 26:41
- Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!"
Psalms 51:10
- Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
- Do not banish me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
- Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.
Psalms 119:32
- If you will help me, I will run to follow your commands.
Psalms 19:12
- How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.
- Keep me from deliberate sins! Don't let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin.
Luke 22:46
- "Why are you sleeping?" he asked. "Get up and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you."
James 3:2
- We all make many mistakes, but those who control their tongues can also control themselves in every other way.
Matthew 16:23
- Jesus turned to Peter and said, "Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, and not from God's."
1 John 1:8
- If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth.
- But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.
- If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.
Romans 7:7
- Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is evil? Of course not! The law is not sinful, but it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
- But sin took advantage of this law and aroused all kinds of forbidden desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
Psalms 51:1
- Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.
- Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin.
- For I recognize my shameful deeds--they haunt me day and night.
- Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.
- For I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Matthew 12:30
- Anyone who isn't helping me opposes me, and anyone who isn't working with me is actually working against me.
Philippians 3:12
- I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection! But I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ Jesus saved me for and wants me to be.
- No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
- I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.
- I hope all of you who are mature Christians will agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you.
- But we must be sure to obey the truth we have learned already.
Matthew 16:17
- Jesus replied, "You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being.
Matthew 5:6
- God blesses those who are hungry and thirsty for justice, for they will receive it in full.
Galatians 3:21
- Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.
Psalms 119:159
- See how I love your commandments, LORD. Give back my life because of your unfailing love.
Psalms 119:40
- I long to obey your commandments! Renew my life with your goodness.
Psalms 119:35
- Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found.
Psalms 119:4
- You have charged us to keep your commandments carefully.
- Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your principles!
- Then I will not be disgraced when I compare my life with your commands.
Psalms 65:3
- Though our hearts are filled with sins, you forgive them all.
Luke 22:33
- Peter said, "Lord, I am ready to go to prison with you, and even to die with you."
Isaiah 6:5
- Then I said, "My destruction is sealed, for I am a sinful man and a member of a sinful race. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty!"
Psalms 119:133
- Guide my steps by your word, so I will not be overcome by any evil.
Luke 22:54
- So they arrested him and led him to the high priest's residence, and Peter was following far behind.
- The guards lit a fire in the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter joined them there.
- A servant girl noticed him in the firelight and began staring at him. Finally she said, "This man was one of Jesus' followers!"
- Peter denied it. "Woman," he said, "I don't even know the man!"
- After a while someone else looked at him and said, "You must be one of them!No, man, I'm not!" Peter replied.
Romans 7:10
- So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
- Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.
- But still, the law itself is holy and right and good.
- But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my doom? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God's good commandment for its own evil purposes.
- The law is good, then. The trouble is not with the law but with me, because I am sold into slavery, with sin as my master.
Psalms 130:3
- LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
Psalms 119:176
- I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come and find me, for I have not forgotten your commands.
Psalms 119:24
- Your decrees please me; they give me wise advice.
- I lie in the dust, completely discouraged; revive me by your word.