Gal_5:19-23. The assertion just made by Paul, that the readers as led by the Spirit would not be under the law, he now illustrates more particularly (
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), by setting forth the entirely opposite moral states, which are produced by the flesh and by the Spirit respectively (Gal_5:22 f.): the former exclude from the Messiah’s kingdom (are therefore abandoned to the curse of the law), while against the latter there is no law.