Galatians 5:18-21

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Galatians 5:19

works . Contrast "fruit", Galatians 5:22 . manifest . Greek. phaneros . App-106 . which = such as. Adultery. The texts omit. uncleanness . Greek. akatharsia . See Romans 1:24 . lasciviousness . Greek. aselgeia , See Romans 13:13 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Galatians 5:20

witchcraft = sorcery. Greek. pharmakeia . Here and Revelation 9:21 ; Revelation 18:23 . See also Revelation 21:8 ; Revelation 22:15 . It means magical incantation by means of drugs (Greek. pharmakon) , hatred . Greek. echthra . See Romans 8:7 . variance . Greek. eris . See Romans 1:29 , emulations = jealousies. See Romans 13:13 (envying). strife = factiousuess. Greek. eritheia . See Romans 2:8 . seditious = divisions. Greek. dichoetasia . See Romans 16:17 . heresies . See Acts 5:17... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Galatians 5:21

Envyings . See Romans 1:29 . drunkenness . See Luke 21:34 . revellings. Literally Comus banquets. Greek. komas (Chemosh of O.T.) See Romans 13:13 , In this list two sins, idolatry and witchcraft, involve traffic with the powers of evil. have , &c. = told you before also, do = practise, inherit . Greek. kleronomeo . Compare 1 Corinthians 6:9 , kingdom. See App-114 . God. App-98 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Galatians 5:18

But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.Judaism was almost totally concerned with external, liturgical, spectacular, material and physical things; and the filling of people's minds with that type of observances would add nothing at all, and even detract from the energies needed in the true spiritual warfare. Paul did not hate Judaism, as such; but it simply could not do any good in the kind of warfare that must be won by the soul if people are to please God. The moral... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you even as I did forewarn you, that they who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.This is another of Paul's lists of evil works, similar but longer than the one in 1 Corinthians 6:9,10, and also resembling those given in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Galatians 5:18

Galatians 5:18. But if ye be led by the Spirit,— "But if ye give yourselves up to the conduct of the Spirit of God, by faith in Christ, ye are not under the law." For they who are led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God; and so heirs, and free. This is plainly the sense of the Apostle, who teaches all along, in the former part of this Epistle, as well as of that to theRomans, that those who put themselves under the gospel, are not under the law of Moses, or under the Adamic law. The... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Galatians 5:19

Galatians 5:19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest;— If flesh be taken for the irregularities of the appetite,—for that natural corruption which infects the faculties of every man by nature; it extends to the mind, as well as to the appetites of the body; and there will be no difficulty in ascribing each of the particular crimes here enumerated to the flesh, as they all proceed from that corruption, by means of which even the mind and conscience is defiled. Titus 1:15. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Galatians 5:20

Galatians 5:20. Witchcraft,— Some would render the word φαρμακεια by poisoning; but surely this is comprehended under the word murders; nor is there any reason to believe the flesh so particularly inclined to this one kind of murder, as that it should be specified rather than any other. It is certain that, on account of the drugs made use of in some supposed magical compositions, this word is often used to express practices of that kind; to which the Gentiles, even in the most learned nations,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Galatians 5:21

Galatians 5:21. Revellings,— Κωμοι, or revellings, among the Greeks, were a disorderly spending of the night in feastings, with a licentious indulging in wine, good cheer, music, dancing, &c. See Romans 13:13. 1 Peter 4:3. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Galatians 5:18

18. "If ye are led (give yourselves up to be led) by (Greek) the Spirit, ye are not under the law." For ye are not working the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:16; Galatians 5:19-21) which bring one "under the law" (Romans 8:2; Romans 8:14). The "Spirit makes free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:14- :). The law is made for a fleshly man, and for the works of the flesh (1 Timothy 1:9), "not for a righteous man" (Romans 6:14; Romans 6:15). read more

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