For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of Elohim is everlasting life through Yahshua the Messiah our Master.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
And they that are the Messiah's have impaled the flesh with the affections and lusts.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And grieve not the holy Spirit of Elohim, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Teaching us that, denying unrighteousness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and reverently in this present world;
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;