Galatians 5:25

Good News Translation

The Spirit has given us life; he must also control our lives.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

King James Version (1611)
If we liue in the Spirit, let vs also walke in the Spirit.

King James Version
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

English Standard Version
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

New American Standard Bible
If we live by the Spirit, let's follow the Spirit as well.

New Century Version
We get our new life from the Spirit, so we should follow the Spirit.

Amplified Bible
If we [claim to] live by the [Holy] Spirit, we must also walk by the Spirit [with personal integrity, godly character, and moral courage—our conduct empowered by the Holy Spirit].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Legacy Standard Bible
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk in step with the Spirit.

Berean Standard Bible
Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

Contemporary English Version
God's Spirit has given us life, and so we should follow the Spirit.

Complete Jewish Bible
Since it is through the Spirit that we have Life, let it also be through the Spirit that we order our lives day by day.

Darby Translation
If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

Easy-to-Read Version
We get our new life from the Spirit, so we should follow the Spirit.

Geneva Bible (1587)
If we liue in the Spirit, let vs also walke in the Spirit.

George Lamsa Translation
Let us therefore live in the Spirit, and surrender to the Spirit.

Lexham English Bible
If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

Literal Translation
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

American Standard Version
If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

Bible in Basic English
If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

Hebrew Names Version
If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

International Standard Version
If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.Romans 8:4-5; Galatians 5:16;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
live we therefore in the Spirit,

Murdock Translation
Let us therefore live in the Spirit; and let us press on after the Spirit.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yf we lyue in ye spirite, let vs walke in the spirite.

English Revised Version
If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

World English Bible
If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Weymouth's New Testament
If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If we lyuen bi spirit, walke we bi spirit;

Update Bible Version
If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

Webster's Bible Translation
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

New English Translation
If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

New King James Version
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

New Living Translation
Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives.

New Life Bible
If the Holy Spirit is living in us, let us be led by Him in all things.

New Revised Standard
If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If we live by Spirit, by Spirit, let us also walk.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Revised Standard Version
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf we lyve in the sprete let vs walke in the sprete.

Young's Literal Translation
if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf we lyue in the sprete, let vs walke also in the sprete.

Mace New Testament (1729)
if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit:

THE MESSAGE
Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Our new life come from the Holy Spirit and so we must give him the reins.

Contextual Overview

¹³ As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another. ¹⁴ For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." ¹⁵ But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another. ¹⁶ What I say is this: let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. ¹⁷ For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do. ¹⁸ If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the Law. ¹⁹ What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy, and indecent actions; ²⁰ in worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups; ²¹ they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God. ²² But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we: John 6:63, Romans 8:2, Romans 8:10, 1 Corinthians 15:45, 2 Corinthians 3:6, 1 Peter 4:6, Revelation 11:11

let: Galatians 5:16, Romans 8:4, Romans 8:5

Reciprocal: Malachi 4:4 - the law Luke 9:46 - General Romans 13:13 - us 2 Corinthians 5:15 - that they Galatians 5:18 - if Galatians 6:16 - walk Ephesians 5:8 - walk

Cross-References

Genesis 4:18
Enoch had a son named Irad, who was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael had a son named Methushael, who was the father of Lamech.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If we live in the Spirit,.... Or "by the Spirit", as all do that are spiritually alive. Sin has not only brought on men a corporeal death, and made them liable to an eternal one, but has also induced upon them a spiritual or moral death; they are dead in trespasses and sin, nor can they quicken themselves, nor can any creature give them life; not the ministers of the word, nor the angels in heaven, only the blessed Spirit is the spirit of life from Christ; who entering into them, frees them from the law of sin and death, and implants a principle of spiritual life in them, whereby they live a life of faith on Christ, of holiness from him, and communion with him: and this the apostle makes use of, as an argument with believers to walk after the Spirit,

let us also walk in the Spirit: or "by the Spirit"; by his help and assistance, according to the rule of his word, and under his influence and direction as a guide, to which he had before advised in Galatians 5:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If we live in the Spirit - See the note at Galatians 5:16. The sense of this verse probably is, “We who are Christians profess to be under the influences of the Holy Spirit. By his influences and agency is our spiritual life. We profess not to be under the dominion of the flesh; not to be controlled by its appetites and desires. Let us then act in this manner, and as if we believed this. Let us yield ourselves to his influences, and show that we are controlled by that Spirit.” It is an earnest exhortation to Christians to yield wholly to the agency of the Holy Spirit on their hearts, and to submit to his guidance; see Romans 8:5, note9, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. If we live in the Spirit — If we profess to believe a spiritual religion, let us walk in the Spirit-let us show in our lives and conversation that the Spirit of God dwells in us.