The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. … For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. … Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. … The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.

For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Mt 26:41; Mt 26:41, Ro 7:5, Jh 3:6, Jh 6:63; Ro 8:3-4; Ro 8:5-8; Ga 6:8

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