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15 But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

16 (A)I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.[a] 17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.(B)

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  1. 5:16–25 Spirit…flesh: cf. Gal 3:3 and the note on Rom 8:1–13.

15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

16 So I say, walk by the Spirit,(A) and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.(B) 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.(C) They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[a] you want.(D)

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  1. Galatians 5:17 Or you do not do what