For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, a slave sold to sin.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.

I also, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as those who are not spiritual, as to babes in Christ.

for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men? For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollos, are ye not [like common] men?

If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap from you things for the body?

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

Let no one defraud you of the prize, desiring to do it in humiliation and worshipping of the angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, puffed up without reason by the mind of his own flesh,

who hath been made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.

being only ordinances pertaining to the flesh, which in addition to meats and drinks and divers washings are imposed until the time of reformation.

Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;