But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,