Carnal Christian

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do; — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ;

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him. — read the full passage →

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what <FI>are<Fi> the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, — read the full passage →

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth; — read the full passage →

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only; — read the full passage →

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

for yet ye are fleshly, for where <FI>there is<Fi> among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

but according as He who did call you <FI>is<Fi> holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned, — read the full passage →

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience; — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency <FI>is<Fi> of God,

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned; — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, — read the full passage →

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; — read the full passage →

if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, — read the full passage →

and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women; — read the full passage →

if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

And immediately Jesus, having stretched forth the hand, laid hold of him, and saith to him, `Little faith! for what didst thou waver?'

And we are as unclean--all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf--all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, — read the full passage →

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus--Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace; — read the full passage →

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; — read the full passage →

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,