²¹ But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.^(A)

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.^(A)

¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.^(A)

Children of God Through Adoption.^[a]

⁸ because the one who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit.^(A)