Foundations for Living

3 And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as ^(A)spiritual people, but only as ^(B)fleshly, as to ^(C)infants in Christ.

³ for you are still fleshly. For since there is ^(A)jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking ^(B)like ordinary people?

² in which you ^(A)previously walked according to the ^[a]course of ^(B)this world, according to ^(C)the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in ^(D)the ^[b]sons of disobedience. ³ Among them ^[c]we too all ^(E)previously lived in ^(F)the lusts of our flesh, ^[d]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the ^[e]mind, and were ^(G)by nature ^(H)children of wrath, ^(I)just as the rest.

^6 (A)For the mind ^[a]set on the flesh is ^(B)death, but the mind ^[b]set on the Spirit is life and peace, ⁷ because the mind ^[c]set on the flesh is ^(C)hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,