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

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk in the ways of men? For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not men?

If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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

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

but deal only with foods and drinks and various washings; they are regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of setting things right.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;