Romans 8:6

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For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

he that soweth to his vices, shall reap the deadly fruit of his vices; but he that sows to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me.

and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: