For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;