Christian trying to live for God in the flesh and 8:1–17 to depict the Christian living in the Spirit. This is the basic paradox of the Christian life: in 6:22 the believer is “set free from sin” in order to become “slaves to God,” yet at the same time many who desire to serve God end up defeated and controlled by sin. We live in two epochs, the old epoch of Adam dominated by sin and the flesh and the new epoch of Christ dominated by the Spirit and the renewed mind.99 The conflict is real, but Paul
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