For if you live according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Ruach you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
For the one who sows in the flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But the one who sows in the Ruach will reap from the Ruach eternal life.
Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.
Rather, I punish my body and bring it into submission, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
training us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live in a manner that is self-controlled and righteous and godly in the present age.
Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,
Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the Torah were working in our body parts to bear fruit for death.
And do not get drunk on wine, for that is recklessness. Instead, be filled with the Ruach,
So then, what outcome did you have that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
Do not grieve the Ruach ha-Kodesh of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
For sin’s payment is death, but God’s gracious gift is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
So then, brothers and sisters, we do not owe anything to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
though he cannot bear to let it go and holds it in his mouth,