For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live sensibly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
That you put off concerning the former way of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: