⁸ and those who are ^(A)in the flesh cannot please God.

³ Among them ^[a]we too all ^(A)previously lived in ^(B)the lusts of our flesh, ^[b]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the ^[c]mind, and were ^(C)by nature ^(D)children of wrath, ^(E)just as the rest.

⁷ because the mind ^[a]set on the flesh is ^(A)hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,