For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,
But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.
Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,
And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.
To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.
Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury; but be ye filled with the holy Spirit,
What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.