For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do e
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who ha
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcisio
But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin th
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but t
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural