EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Galatians 5:25
25Now it is God's Spirit that gives us life. So we must let God's Spirit lead us in how we live.
Galatians 5:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
- New International Version (NIV)Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Context of Galatians 5:25
23We respect other people and we rule ourselves properly. God's Spirit helps us to live in that way. There is no law that says these things are wrong. 24We belong to Christ. As a result, we no longer obey our wrong human thoughts. We stop doing the bad things that our thoughts want us to do. It is like we have killed those thoughts on the cross. Now it is God's Spirit that gives us life. So we must let God's Spirit lead us in how we live. 26We must not become proud. We must not be jealous of each other, so that we cause trouble to one another.
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εἰ ζῶμεν πνεύματι, πνεύματι καὶ στοιχῶμεν.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Galatians 5:25
- John 6:63It is the Spirit that gives you life. People cannot do that. The words that I have spoken to you come from the Spirit. They give you life.
- Romans 8:2If you belong to Christ Jesus, God's Spirit has given you a new life. God's Spirit now rules in your life and he has made you free. Sin and death no longer have authority over you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45It says in the Bible, ‘The first man, Adam, became a person who received life.’ But Christ is like the last Adam. He is a spirit who gives life to people.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6God has made us his servants. So we are able to tell people the message of his new agreement. This new agreement is not about rules. Rules tell people what they must do and they bring death. But God's new agreement comes from his Spirit. And the Spirit brings new life to us, not death.
- 1 Peter 4:6That is why even dead people needed to hear the good news about Christ. Their bodies had to die, as all people must die. But they heard the good news so that their spirits could live, as God wants them to live.
- Revelation 11:11But after three and a half days, God breathed life into those dead bodies. They stood up. The people who saw them were very afraid.
- Galatians 5:16So this is what I say: Let God's Spirit show you how to live in a good way. Then you will not do the wrong things that you may want to do, as people who are weak and human.
- Romans 8:4God did this so that we could become right with him. God's Law showed us how to be right with him. And now we can be right with God, if we live with God's Spirit as our guide. We do not do what our weak human thoughts want us to do.
Commentaries on Galatians 5:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25If we live in the Spirit - If we profess to believe a spiritual religion, let us walk in the Spirit - let us show in our lives and conversation that the Spirit of God dwells in us.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25If we live in the Spirit - See the note at Galatians 5:16. The sense of this verse probably is, “We who are Christians profess to be under the influences of the Holy Spirit. By his influences and agency is our spiritual life. We profess not to be under the dominion of the flesh; not to be controlled by its appetites and desires. Let us then act in this manner, and as if we believed this. Let us yield ourselves to his influences, and show that we are…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-26Verses 16-26 If it be our care to act under the guidance and power of the blessed Spirit, though we may not be freed from the stirrings and oppositions of the corrupt nature which remains in us, it shall not have dominion over us. Believers are engaged in a conflict, in which they earnestly desire that grace may obtain full and speedy victory. And those who desire thus to give themselves up to be led by the Holy Spirit, are not under the law as a covenant…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25Christians do not live by the law but instead let the Holy Spirit guide their lives.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. in ... in--rather, as Greek, "If we live (see on Ga 5:24) BY the Spirit, let us also walk (Ga 5:16; 6:16) BY the Spirit." Let our life in practice correspond to the ideal inner principle of our spiritual life, namely, our standing by faith as dead to, and severed from, sin, and the condemnation of the law. "Life by (or 'in') the Spirit" is not an occasional influence of the Spirit, but an abiding state, wherein we are continually alive, though…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Galatians 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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