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

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

It has pleased them greatly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in material things.

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

For you are yet carnal: for while there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men? For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your material things?

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Let no man deceive you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Which stood only in foods and drinks, and various washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;