⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;^(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

¹⁴ The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(A) but considers them foolishness,^(B) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

⁴ You adulterous^(A) people,^[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world^(B) means enmity against God?^(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.^(D)

On Not Loving the World

¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world.^(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father^[a] is not in them.^{(B) 16} For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,^(C) the lust of the eyes,^(D) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding^(A) and separated from the life of God^(B) because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.^{(C) 19} Having lost all sensitivity,^(D) they have given themselves over^(E) to sensuality^(F) so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

²² For in my inner being^(A) I delight in God’s law;^(B)

⁴ treacherous,^(A) rash, conceited,^(B) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

²¹ Once you were alienated from God and were enemies^(A) in your minds^(B) because of^[a] your evil behavior.