Galatians 5:19–21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Definitions
Adultery
Dictionary: The giving up of what one has followed, believed, or professed.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Apostate, paramour, woman that breaketh wedlock, to apostatize (an illicit lover, a married person.)
Fornication
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: To commit adultery, (usually of the female, and less often of the simple fornication, rarely involuntary ravishment.)
Uncleanness
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: Religious impurity, filthiness, moral contamination, defile self, pollute, make self utterly unclean, to be foul, nudity, disgrace, blemish, nakedness, shame, to discover, make naked, spread self, uncover.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Physical or moral uncleanness, impurity, contamination.
Lasciviousness
Dictionary: Lewd, unrestrained, dissolute, morally loose.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Licentiousness, filthy, wantonness.
Idolatry
Dictionary: The worship of idols, extreme admiration of any person or thing, to love or admire to excess.
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: A family idol or healer (person or thing.)
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Image worship, to worship a heathen god.
Witchcraft
Dictionary: The practices of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with the devil.
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: To engage in witchcraft, be a sorcerer, witch, sorcery often with the associative meanings of rebellion and seduction into false religion.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Witchcraft, magic, the use of spells and potions of magic, often involving drugs; sorceries.
Hatred
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: Exceeding hateful, to hate personally, enemy, foe, odious, hostility, enmity.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: An adversary, especially Satan, enemy, foe, intense dislike.
Variance
Dictionary: The state of being changeable or different, a difference of opinion, discord.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: To make apart, alienate, contention, a quarrel, wrangling, debate, strife.
Emulations
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: To stimulate along side, to excite to rivalry, jealousy, zeal in a favorable sense, ardor, malice, fervent mind, indignation.
Wrath
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: The rapid breathing in passion, breathe hard, be enraged, displeased, outburst of passion, rage, displeasure, a burning of anger, fierceness, fury, to blaze up, of anger, zeal, fret self, grieve, wax hot, to be incensed, kindle, be very wroth, to crack, a splinter, a rage or stride, foam, indignation, sore wrath, hear anger, poison, fever, hot displeasure, vexation, provocation, sorrow, spite.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Passion, as if breathing hard, to rush, blow smoke, to sacrifice, to immolator, kill, slay, violently; desire, abhorrence, indignation, vengeance, rage.
Strife
Dictionary: Conflict, hostilities, rivalry, gainsay, to contradict, deny.
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: Adversary, cause, chiding, contention, controversy, multitude, leading, quarrel, provocation, to rule, to judge, strive as to law, contend, execute judgment, minister judgment, plead the cause, a brawling contest, discord, debate, to go forth, to be expelled, and consequently desolate; to lay a waste, to be ruinous.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Quarrelsomeness, variance, wrangling, dispute, disobedience, contradiction, gainsaying.
Seditions
Dictionary: Agitation against government just short of insurrection, open rebellion, reason, the striving or stirring up of discontent, resistance against lawful authority.
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: In a bad sense, rebellion.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: A standing position, a popular uprising, controversy, dissension, insurrection, standing uproar, disunion, division.
Heresies
Dictionary: An opinion or doctrine contrary to those commonly accepted on such subjects as religion, politics.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: To take oneself, to prefer over God’s word, choose, a party, or disunion, sect.
Envyings
Dictionary: To wish for what is another’s, to begrudge the excellence or prosperity of another.
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: Jealousy, to be jealous in a bad sense, move or provoke to be jealous.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Ill will, spite, to have a warmth of feeling against, affect, covet earnestly, have a desire for, move with envy, be zealous.
Murders
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: To dash to pieces, kill a human being, to put to death, slay.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: Murder, to be slain.
Drunkenness
Strong’s Concordance, Hebrew: To be sated with drink, intoxicated.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: To imbibe, or banquet.
Revellings
Dictionary: To make merry, to be wildly gay, to make great delight, a gay or noisy festivity.
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: A carousal, (as if letting loose), rioting.
Such Like
Strong’s Concordance, Greek: These, this, those, the same as these, such as, after his manner, on this fashion, in this way.
