tie this one on ..

Let your spirit guide your walk and you will not carry out the desires of your flesh, for the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit desires what is against the flesh.
They are opposed to each other; as a result, you don’t always end up doing what you intended.
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The works of the flesh are evident:

sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity ..

idolatry, sorcery ..

hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger ..

selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy ..

drunkenness, carousing ..

and similar things.

I'm telling you, as I told you before,
       those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.



But the spirit bears this fruit:

               love
joy
                              peace
                   patience
kindness
                                     goodness
    faith
                      gentleness
         self-control

 and the like.

Those who belong to Messiah Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we are alive in our spirit, we must also walk led by our spirit.
We can’t allow ourselves to act arrogantly and to provoke or envy each other.
 
                            Galatains 5

wow
wow
splitting that into it's composite parts is quite .. . .. sobering ..


which leads
naturally
to this ..

I may speak in the languages of humans and even of angels
            but if I don’t have love, I am nothing but loud gongs and clashing cymbals

I may have the gift to speak what God has revealed
   and I may understand all mysteries
      and have all knowledge
   I may even have enough faith to move mountains
            but if I don’t have love
               I am nothing .. ... ..... .

I may even give away all that I have
   and give up my body to be burned
            but if I don’t have love
               i gain nothing by it .. .   .

                  Love is patient

                                                Love is kind

        Love isn’t jealous

it doesn’t sing its own praises

                       it isn’t arrogant

          it isn’t rude

                                           it doesn’t insist on its own way

  it isn’t irritable

                                 it doesn’t keep track of wrongs

      it isn’t happy with injustice,
                                       but is happy with the truth


Love
                  never stops being patient
   never stops believing
                                         never stops hoping
        never gives up


                                                                                   Love has no end . .  . ..... . .   .

  it is endless ..

                            1Corinthians 13



think on these things ..

shalom