^{2 Ref} For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

^{3 Ref} For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

^{4 Ref} So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

^{5 Ref} For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

^{6 Ref} For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

^{7 Ref} Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

^{8 Ref} So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.