For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through 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.
Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.
But I bring and keep my body under subjection, lest when preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and in godliness in this present world,
Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart,
When we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, through the law, worked in our members to bear fruit leading to death.
Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit.
What fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? The result of those things is death.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you are sealed for 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, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it in his mouth,