Recognizing the charge entrusted to me, James, Peter, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the Church, openly acknowledged Barnabas and me as fellow-workers, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.