moral effort. There is certainly an imperative here, and it is a summons to effort. Yet it is set in the context of a power that is not from us: the power of what Christ has done for us in his death (and therefore our having died with him) and of our new life in him (we have been raised with him). The call is to defeat (‘put to death’) ‘what is earthly in you’. This phrase is a little difficult to translate, but in Greek it clearly echoes the words in verse 2, ‘the things that are