Romans 8:13

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Summary

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death;

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire;

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the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

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Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

and do not get drunk with wine ??that means profligacy ??but be filled with the Spirit,

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.