Galatians 5:24
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Study Note
Study Note
The declaration 'they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts' presents sanctification not as progressive restraint of the flesh but as a decisive crucifixion — past tense, completed — that defines the identity of those who belong to Christ. The 'flesh' (sarx) in Galatians 5 is not the physical body per se but the entire human person oriented away from God — encompassing both sensual vices and religious pride (5:20: 'idolatry, witchcraft'). The preceding catalogue of 'works of the flesh' (5:19-21) includes social disruptions ('hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions') alongside sexual sins, suggesting that ecclesial conflict is as much a 'work of the flesh' as immorality. Romans 6:6-7 and 8:13 develop the same crucifixion-of-the-flesh framework for describing the Christian's new-creation existence.
Other Translations
And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
Cross References
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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds …
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell …