⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, ^(A)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree ^(B)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

²³ therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden ^(A)to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So ^(B)He drove out the man; and He placed ^(C)cherubim ^(D)at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of ^(E)life.

^2 (A)in which you once walked according to the ^[a]course of this world, according to ^(B)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in ^(C)the sons of disobedience, ^3 (D)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in ^(E)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and ^(F)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

The New Man

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should ^(A)no longer walk as ^[a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

¹² And you have done ^(A)worse than your fathers, for behold, ^(B)each one ^[a]follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.

³ For this is ^(A)the will of God, ^(B)your sanctification: ^(C)that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ^4 (D)that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ^5 (E)not in passion of lust, ^(F)like the Gentiles ^(G)who do not know God;

⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, ^(A)but in holiness.