Thereforedo not let sinreignin your mortalbodysothat you obeyits lusts,
But I say,walkby the Spirit,and you will not carryout the desireof the flesh.
Do you not knowthat whenyou presentyourselvesto someone[as] slavesfor obedience,you are slavesof the one whomyou obey,eitherof sinresultingin death,orof obedienceresultingin righteousness?
for ifyou are livingaccordingto the flesh,you mustdie;but ifby the Spirityou are putting to deaththe deedsof the body,you will live.
Nowthosewho belong to ChristJesushave crucifiedthe fleshwith its passionsand desires.
AlsokeepbackYour servantfrom presumptuous[sins]; Let them not ruleover me; ThenI will be blameless,And I shall be acquittedof greattransgression.
For we who liveare constantlybeing delivered overto deathfor Jesus'sake,sothat the lifeof Jesusalsomay be manifestedin our mortalflesh.
Nowfleefrom youthfullustsand pursuerighteousness,faith,love[and] peace,with thosewho callon the Lordfrom a pureheart.
that, in referenceto your formermanner of life,you lay asidethe oldself,which is being corruptedin accordancewith the lustsof deceit,
but to thosewho are selfishly ambitiousand do not obeythe truth,but obeyunrighteousness,wrathand indignation.
Beloved,I urgeyou as aliensand strangersto abstainfrom fleshlylustswhichwage waragainstthe soul.
instructingus to denyungodlinessand worldlydesiresand to livesensibly,righteouslyand godlyin the presentage,
Amongthem we tooallformerlylivedin the lustsof our flesh,indulgingthe desiresof the fleshand of the mind,and were by naturechildrenof wrath,evenas the rest.
Establishmy footstepsin Your word,And do not let anyiniquityhavedominionover me.
But ifyou do not driveout the inhabitantsof the landfrom beforeyou, then it shall comeabout that those whomyou letremainof them [will become] as pricksin your eyesand as thornsin your sides,and they will troubleyou in the landin whichyou live.
that they were sayingto you, "In the lasttimethere will be mockers,followingaftertheir ownungodlylusts."
As obedientchildren,do not be conformedto the formerlusts[which were yours] in your ignorance,
For we alsooncewere foolishourselves,disobedient,deceived,enslavedto variouslustsand pleasures,spending our lifein maliceand envy,hateful,hatingone another.
not in lustfulpassion,likethe Gentileswho do not knowGod;
But puton the LordJesusChrist,and makenoprovisionfor the fleshin regardto [its] lusts.
But ifthe Spiritof Him who raisedJesusfrom the deaddwellsin you, He who raisedChristJesusfrom the deadwill alsogive lifeto your mortalbodiesthroughHis Spiritwho dwellsin you.
For sinshall not be master overyou, for you are not underlawbut undergrace.
sothat, as sinreignedin death,evensogracewould reignthroughrighteousnessto eternallifethroughJesusChristour Lord.
"Therefore I alsosaid,I will not drivethem out beforeyou; but they will become[as thorns] in your sidesand their godswill be a snareto you.'"
and when the LORDyour Goddeliversthem beforeyou and you defeatthem, then you shall utterlydestroythem. You shall makenocovenantwith them and shownofavorto them.
Theseare grumblers,finding fault,followingaftertheir [own] lusts;they speakarrogantly,flatteringpeoplefor the sakeof [gaining an] advantage.
For indeedwhile we are in thistent,we groan,being burdened,becausewe do not wantto be unclothedbut to be clothed,sothat what is mortalwill be swallowedup by life.
"Ifyou dowell,will not [your countenance] be liftedup? And ifyou do not dowell,sinis crouchingat the door;and its desireis for you, but you must masterit."
"Now ifa manlosesthe hairof his head,he is bald;he is clean.
