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Life Through the Spirit

This contradiction no longer exists for those in Jesus Christ.

In Jesus Christ, the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.

The law was ineffective, weak as it was through the flesh. God, planning to destroy sin, sent his own Son in the likeness of those subject to the sinful human condition; by doing this he condemned the sin in this human condition.

Since then, the perfection intended by the law will be fulfilled by those who walk in the way of the spirit rather than in the way of the flesh.

Those who walk according to the flesh tend toward fleshly things; those led by the Spirit tend toward spiritual things.

The flesh tends to death, while the spirit seeks life and peace.

What the flesh desires goes against God: it does not agree, and it cannot even submit to God’s law.

Therefore, those living according to the flesh cannot please God.

However, your existence is not in the flesh but in the spirit because God’s Spirit dwells within you. If you did not have the Spirit of Christ, you would not belong to him.

But Christ is within you; although the body is marked by death as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life and holiness.

And if the Spirit of him, who raised Jesus from the dead, is within you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies. Yes, he will do it through his Spirit who dwells within you.