⁴ in order that the righteous requirement^(A) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.^(B)

⁵ Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires;^(C) but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.^{(D) 6} The mind governed by the flesh is death,^(E) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life^(F) and peace. ⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;^(G) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸ Those who are in the realm of the flesh^(H) cannot please God.

⁹ You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh^(I) but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.^(J) And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,^(K) they do not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you,^(L) then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[a] because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead^(M) is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies^(N) because of^[b] his Spirit who lives in you.

¹² Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.^{(O) 13} For if you live according to the flesh, you will die;^(P) but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,^(Q) you will live.^(R)

⁶ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit^[a] gives birth to spirit.^(A)

³ For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.^{(A) 4} The weapons we fight with^(B) are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power^(C) to demolish strongholds.^{(D) 5} We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,^(E) and we take captive every thought to make it obedient^(F) to Christ.

¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality,^(A) impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.^(B) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.^(C)