¹⁹ I am using a human analogy^[a](A) because of the weakness of your flesh.^[b] For just as you offered the parts^[c] of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

¹⁷ For the flesh desires^(A) what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.^(B)

Proud or Humble

4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings^(A) that are at war within you?^[a]

A Call to Good Works

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents^(A) to abstain^(B) from fleshly^(C) desires that war against you.^[a](D)