2 Corinthians 11:9-13
11:9 When
I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs.
I
kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine
will not be stopped
in the regions of Achaia.
11:11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
11:12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals
in the things they boast about.
11:13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful
workers, disguising themselves
as apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:13-19
12:13 For how
were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!
12:14 Look, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you, because I do not want your possessions, but you. For children should not have
to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
12:15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives!
If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
12:16 But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!
12:17 I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?
12:18 I urged Titus to visit you
and I sent our
brother along with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he?
Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not behave in the same way?
12:19 Have you been thinking all this time
that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.
Romans 8:1
The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit
8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:5
8:5 For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by
the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16-25
5:16 But I say, live
by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
5:17 For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires
that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to
each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh
are obvious:
sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
5:20 idolatry, sorcery,
hostilities,
strife,
jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions,
factions,
5:21 envying,
murder,
drunkenness, carousing,
and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
5:23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
5:24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:2-3
2:2 in which
you formerly lived
according to this world’s present path,
according to the ruler of the kingdom
of the air, the ruler of
the spirit
that is now energizing
the sons of disobedience,
2:3 among whom
all of us
also
formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath
even as the rest…