Galatians 5:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
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BSBPD
“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Galatians 5:18 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
- Psalms 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
- Psalms 143:8Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
- Proverbs 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
- Isaiah 48:16Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
- Ezekiel 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
- Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Romans 8:12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
- Romans 8:14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
- Galatians 4:5to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
- Galatians 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Galatians 5:25Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
- 1 Timothy 1:9We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- 2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
- 1 John 2:20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
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