For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
What fruit did you have then in the 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 were sealed for the day of redemption.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Though he spares it and does not forsake it, But still keeps it in his mouth,