This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
All Commentaries on Galatians 5:16 Go To Galatians 5
John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here he points out another path which makes duty easy, and secures what had been said, a path whereby love is generated, and which is fenced in by love. For nothing, nothing I say, renders us so susceptible of love, as to be spiritual, and nothing is such an inducement to the Spirit to abide in us, as the strength of love. Therefore he says, Walk by the Spirit and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh: having spoken of the cause of the disease, he likewise mentions the remedy which confers health. And what is this, what is the destruction of the evils we have spoken of, but the life in the Spirit? Hence he says, Walk by the Spirit and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
