for if you live according to flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.
he spares it, and he will not leave it; yea, he keeps holding it back in his mouth;
Therefore what fruit did you have then over the things which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin were working in our members through the law for the bearing of fruit unto death.
So, then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh,
but I buffet my body and enslave it, lest having preached to others I myself might be disapproved.
But the ones belonging to Christ crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
For the one sowing to his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But the one sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life of the Spirit.
for you to put off the old man, as regards the former behavior, the one being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed to the day of redemption.
And “do not be drunk with wine,” in which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, Prov. 23:31
instructing us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live prudently and righteously and godly in the now age,
Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unpretended brotherly love, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,
Beloved ones, I exhort you as foreigners and aliens to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;