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For the law of the Spirit[a] of life in Christ Jesus has set you[b] free from the law of sin and of death.(A) For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin,[c] he condemned sin in the flesh,(B) so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.[d](C) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit[e] set their minds on the things of the Spirit.[f](D) To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit[g] is life and peace.(E)

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  1. 8.2 Or spirit
  2. 8.2 Gk you is singular; other ancient authorities read me or us
  3. 8.3 Or and as a sin offering
  4. 8.4 Or spirit
  5. 8.5 Or spirit
  6. 8.5 Or spirit
  7. 8.6 Or spirit