Galatians 5:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 For the whole law(A) is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[a] 15 But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
16 (B)I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.[b]
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- 5:14 Lv 19:18, emphasized by Jesus (Mt 22:39; Lk 10:27); cf. Rom 13:8–10.
- 5:16–25 Spirit…flesh: cf. Gal 3:3 and the note on Rom 8:1–13.
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