Galatians 5:23 (DBY)

Passage

meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

Nearby Context

Galatians 5:21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

Galatians 5:23 meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:24 But they that [are] of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

Galatians 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "meekness", "self-control", "against", "such", and "things". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "meekness" and "self-control", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 22's "But the fruit of the Spirit is..." into verse 24's "But they that are of the Christ...", so "meekness" and "self-control" belong inside that flow. In Galatians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "meekness" and "self-control" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.