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but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!
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What I am saying is this: run your lives by the Spirit. Then you will not do what your old nature wants.
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For the old nature wants what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old nature. These oppose each other, so that you find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions.
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But if you are led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results from perverting the Torah into legalism.
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And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity and indecency;
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involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue
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and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God!
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (Complete Jewish Bible)
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