The unbeliever ¹  does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull ¹  nor had his vitality ²  departed.

Elijah was a human being ¹  like us, and he prayed earnestly ²  that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

So then, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

But I say, live ¹  by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. ² 

Now those who belong to Christ ¹  have crucified the flesh ²  with its passions ³  and desires.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature ¹  is subdued and has been subdued by humankind. ² 

These people are divisive, ¹  worldly, ²  devoid of the Spirit. ³ 

He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes ¹  or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: ¹  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Therefore we do not despair, ¹  but even if our physical body ²  is wearing away, our inner person ³  is being renewed day by day.

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires ¹  that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to ²  each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

You people ¹  are from ²  your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. ³  He ⁴  was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, ⁵  because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, ⁶  he speaks according to his own nature, ⁷  because he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁸ 

Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce ¹  from the field.

– children not born ¹  by human parents ²  or by human desire ³  or a husband’s ⁴  decision, ⁵  but by God.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, ¹  for he knew what was in man. ² 

(Now Jesus had been talking about ¹  his death, but they ²  thought he had been talking about real sleep.) ³ 

concerning his Son who was a descendant ¹  of David with reference to the flesh, ²