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Galatians 5:25

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

KJV

εἰ ζῶμεν πνεύματι, πνεύματι καὶ στοιχῶμεν.

Greek NT

Si Spiritu vivimus, Spiritu et ambulemus.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
στοιχέω
stoicheo
verb · 5×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§736By this power of the Spirit, God's children can bear much fruit. He who has grafted us onto the true vine will make us bear "the fruit of the Spirit: . . . love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control."129 "We live by the Spirit"; the more we renounce ourselves, the more we "walk by the Spirit."130 Through the Holy Spirit we are restore…
§782The People of God is marked by characteristics that clearly distinguish it from all other religious, ethnic, political, or cultural groups found in history: - It is the People of God: God is not the property of any one people. But he acquired a people for himself from those who previously were not a people: "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation."202 - One becomes a …
§1695"Justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God,"13 "sanctified . . . (and) called to be saints,"14 Christians have become the temple of the Holy Spirit.15 This "Spirit of the Son" teaches them to pray to the Father16 and, having become their life, prompts them to act so as to bear "the fruit of the Spirit"17 by charity in action. Healing the wounds…
…and 5 more from this source.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
  • 1Pet 4:6 — For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
  • 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
  • 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • Eph 5:8 — For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
  • Gal 5:16 — This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:18 — But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
  • John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Phil 3:3 — For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
  • Rev 11:11 — And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
  • Rom 8:1 — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:2 — For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 8:4 — That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:10 — And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
  • Rom 13:13 — Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.