So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
16. This I say then. Now follows the remedy. The ruin of the church is no light evil, and whatever threatens it must be opposed with the most determined resistance. But how is this to be accomplished? By not permitting the flesh to rule in us, and by yielding ourselves to the direction of the Spirit of God.
Christ has freed you from the curse of the law, but not from the obligation of it. Do not seize your Christian liberty as a license for the flesh and quarrels with your brothers; rather, serve one another in love, maintaining that mutual affection which binds you together despite your differences.
AI summary
Commenting on Galatians 5:13-26
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,.... By "flesh" is meant, not the carnal or literal sense of the Scripture, which is Origen's gloss, as militating against the spiritual sense of it; nor the sensual part of man rebelling against his rational powers; but the corruption of nature, which still is in regenerate persons: and is so called because it is propagated by carnal generation...