“If it be asked in what way are these two connected, I answer, closely and plainly; for he that hath the Spirit as he ought, quenches thereby every evil desire, and he that is released from these needs no help from the Law, but is exalted far above its precepts. He who is never angry, what need has he to hear the comma…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Galatians 5
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18But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
— Galatians 5:18 —
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,