And those that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made by hands in the flesh--

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature,

Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.

because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law neither is there transgression.

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he has become guilty of all.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of lust. For apart from the law sin [was] dead.

And the commandment, which [was] to [bring] life, I found to [bring] death.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

But I see a different law in my members, waging war with the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawlessness [resulting] in [more] lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness [resulting] in sanctification.

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

So what fruit did you have then of which [things] you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.