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

Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

For they were contented; and they are their debtors. For if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? For when a certain one should say, I truly am of Paul; and another, I of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things?

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Who according to the law of a fleshly command was not born, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment.

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;