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

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos,"are you not being merely human?

If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.

but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.