the Spirit.” The verb for “walk” (peripateite [TG4043, ZG4344]) is translated “live” at 5:16; it is used frequently by both Paul and John to refer to the way a person conducts his or her life, and it is drawn from the Old Testament word halak [TH1980, ZH2143], which can be used similarly. For example, Genesis 5:24 says that “Enoch walked with God” (KJV). There, the verb halak, as in many other places, means to do something habitually (cf. Gen 6:9 concerning Noah or Gen 17:1 in God’s command to
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