For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to minister unto them in carnal things.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;