But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
and to put on the new self, created according to the image of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Although these regulations have a semblance of wisdom in self-imposed piety, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are of no value in restraining fleshly indulgence.
Beloved, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul,