Galatians 5:25

Easy-to-Read Version

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

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.

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.

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

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 My brothers and sisters, God chose you to be free. But don't use your freedom as an excuse to do what pleases your sinful selves. Instead, serve each other with love. ¹⁴ The whole law is made complete in this one command: "Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself." ¹⁵ If you continue hurting each other and tearing each other apart, be careful, or you will completely destroy each other. ¹⁶ So I tell you, live the way the Spirit leads you. Then you will not do the evil things your sinful self wants. ¹⁷ The sinful self wants what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is against the sinful self. They are always fighting against each other, so that you don't do what you really want to do. ¹⁸ But if you let the Spirit lead you, you are not under law. ¹⁹ The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: committing sexual sin, being morally bad, doing all kinds of shameful things, ²⁰ worshiping false gods, taking part in witchcraft, hating people, causing trouble, being jealous, angry or selfish, causing people to argue and divide into separate groups, ²¹ being filled with envy, getting drunk, having wild parties, and doing other things like this. I warn you now as I warned you before: The people who do these things will not have a part in God's kingdom. ²² But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person's life is 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. Irad had a son named Mehujael. Mehujael had a son named Methushael. And Methushael had a son named 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.