For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.
Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected.
teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,
But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
What fruit did you have then in those 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 are sealed until 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 not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
though he spares it and will not leave it; yea, keeps it still in his mouth;