For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth,