10-16 - Galatians 5 16-21

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16 - So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t gratify the lower nature. 17 For the desires of carnality are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against carnality, for these are opposed to each other. So we cannot do what the lower nature may want. 18 But if we are “led by” the Spirit (of God), we don’t need to be “under” the law. 19 Now the works of the lower nature (the imperfect “human nature with its frailties” and self first pursuits) are evident: sexual immorality [porneía, from pornos] impurity [akatharsía (a-catharsis) - from A - not and katharós - lacks contamination, unmixed, pure; so impure {entropic, corrupt happens}] debauchery [aselgeia - licentiousness, debauchery, inordinate sensuality, lewdness] 20 idolatry [eidólolatria - from eidólon and latreia - image worship (ancient and modern; image/replica/likeness/statue/hologram/psuedo)] sorcery [pharmakeia - sorcery, enchantment] enmity [echthra - hostility, hatred] {so} strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions. 21 Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I’ve said before, those who do such things are not able to inherit/enter the kingdom of God. {WhiLe we are/were in that state of - being led - by such. Hostility seems to be on the rise? And slithering/has slithered into the collective body of believers, which causes a spirit of dislike, judging, labeling, superiority, even accusing, all such being worldly and carnal. And leads to failure, sufferings and destruction. 🙂have a good day.}

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Tomorrow - Galatians 5:22-26

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

Romans 7 5-10

  02/05 ~ From New Testament Letters

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        Paul’s Letter To The Romans

5 - For while we were living in the lower nature/carnality, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in us bearing fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law - having died to that which held us captive - so that we now serve in the new way of the Spirit. And not in the old way of the written code. {Outward compliance doesn’t work. Genuine inward change and newness - worked by God who iS life, is what works. Submission, fully yielded. After all, it’s He who has our highest blueprint!}

     7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known what is sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet, if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” 8 But {tricky} sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness! {Like forbidden fruit, seduces, entices and excites.} Otherwise it lies dormant. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life, proved to be death to me.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 7:11-8:2

By Necessity Paraphrased

Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospels and N.T. Letters Reading & Study (In their natural order) My own studies.