Galatians 5:18

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Legacy Standard Bible
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Simplified Cowboy Version
And when you choose to ride with the Holy Ghost, you are under no obligation whatsoever to follow the code of Moses.

Bible in Basic English
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Darby Translation
but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

Christian Standard Bible®
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

World English Bible
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Weymouth's New Testament
But if the Spirit is leading you, you are not subject to Law.

King James Version (1611)
But if yee be lead of the spirit, yee are not vnder the Law.

Literal Translation
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under Law.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But and yf ye be led of the sprete, then are ye not vnder the lawe.

Mace New Testament (1729)
but if you are governed by the spirit, you are not subject to the law.

Amplified Bible
But if you are guided and led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.

American Standard Version
But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Revised Standard Version
But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But and yf ye be ledde of the sprete then are ye not vnder the lawe.

Update Bible Version
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Young's Literal Translation
and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

New Century Version
But if the Spirit is leading you, you are not under the law.

New English Translation
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Contemporary English Version
But if you obey the Spirit, the Law of Moses has no control over you.

Complete Jewish Bible
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.

English Standard Version
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe.

George Lamsa Translation
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Hebrew Names Version
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

International Standard Version
But if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.Romans 6:14; 8:2;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But if by the Spirit you are led, you are not under the law.

Murdock Translation
But if ye are guided by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

New King James Version
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

New Living Translation
But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.

New Life Bible
If you let the Holy Spirit lead you, the Law no longer has power over you.

English Revised Version
But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

New Revised Standard
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the law.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if, by Spirit, ye are being led, ye are not under law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

King James Version
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Lexham English Bible
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But and yf ye be ledde of the spirite, then are ye not vnder the lawe.

Easy-to-Read Version
But if you let the Spirit lead you, you are not under law.

New American Standard Bible
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

Good News Translation
If the Spirit leads you, then you are not subject to the Law.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That if ye be led bi spirit, ye ben not vnder the lawe.

Contextual Overview

¹³For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love. ¹⁴The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself." ¹⁵But if you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out, or you will be consumed by each other. ¹⁶So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. ¹⁸But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.¹⁹The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; ²⁰idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, ²¹and envy; drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if: Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:25, Galatians 4:6, Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 143:8-10, Proverbs 8:20, Isaiah 48:16-18, Ezekiel 36:27, John 16:13, Romans 8:12, Romans 8:14, 2 Timothy 1:7, 1 John 2:20-27

ye are: Galatians 4:5, Romans 6:14, Romans 6:15

Reciprocal: Matthew 11:30 - my yoke Romans 3:19 - what things Romans 3:31 - yea Romans 7:4 - ye also 1 Corinthians 9:20 - are under Galatians 3:23 - under

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:15
When Mahalaleel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.

1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if ye be led by the Spirit,.... That is, of God, who is the guide and leader of his people. It is a metaphor taken from the leading of persons that are blind; as such are before conversion, and whom the Spirit of God leads in ways they knew not, and in paths they had not known: or from the leading of children, and teaching them to go; so the Spirit leads regenerate persons, and teaches them to walk by faith in Christ. This act of leading supposes life in the persons led, for dead men cannot be led; the Spirit is first a Spirit of life from Christ before he is a leader; and also it supposes some strength, though a good deal of weakness; were there no spiritual strength derived from Christ, they could not be led; and if there was no weakness, there would be no need of leading; it is an instance of powerful and efficacious grace upon them, yet not contrary to their wills, though they are led, they are not forced; they go freely, being led, as there is good reason for it; for the Spirit of God always leads for their profit and advantage, and for the spiritual delight, pleasure, and comfort of their souls; he leads out of the ways of sin, and so of ruin and destruction, and from Mount Sinai, and all dependence on a legal and moral righteousness; he leads to Christ, to his person, for shelter, safety, and salvation, to his blood, for pardon and cleansing, to his righteousness, for justification, and to his fulness, for every supply of grace; he leads into the presence of God, and to his house and ordinances; he leads into the covenant of grace, to the blessings, promises, and Mediator of it; he leads into all truth as it is in Jesus, in the ways of faith and truth, and in the paths of righteousness and holiness, and always in a right way, though sometimes in a rough one, to the city of their habitation; he leads from one degree of grace to another, and at last to glory: all which he does gradually; he leads by little and little into a man's sinfulness, and to see his interest in Christ, and by degrees into the doctrines of the Gospel, and the everlasting love of the three Persons; and proportionally to the strength he gives, and as they are able to bear: now such persons as these have nothing to fear from the law of God:

ye are not under the law; such are not only delivered from the law in fact, but in their own apprehensions; they have the comfortable knowledge and experience of it; the law is no terrifying law to them; it works no wrath in them; they are delivered from the spirit of bondage to fear, by the Spirit of God, by whom they are led; nor are they under it, nor do they need it as a pressing forcing law to duty; they delight in it, and cheerfully serve it, being constrained by love, and not awed by fear; nor are its accusations and charges regarded, or to be regarded, by such who are led by the Spirit to Christ, the end of the law for righteousness; and they are entirely freed from its curse and condemnation, though they are under it, and desire to be under it, as held forth by Christ the King of saints; and, under the Spirit's influence and guidance, yield a cheerful and evangelical obedience to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But if ye be led of the Spirit - If you submit to the teachings and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Ye are not under the law - You are under a different dispensation - the dispensation of the Spirit. You are free from the restraints and control of the Mosaic law, and are under the control of the Spirit of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. But, if ye be led of the Spirit — If ye receive again the Gospel and the grace of Christ, and permit yourselves to be influenced by the Holy Spirit whom you are now grieving, ye are not under the law-ye will not feel those evil propensities which now disgrace and torment you; but they must prevail while you are not under the influence of the grace and Spirit of Christ.