8:12–14. Up to this point Paul showed how believers are not debtors to the flesh. That is, believers do not have to live according to the flesh (like unbelievers; 8:1, 4–5) because they have resurrection power to overcome the deadly power of sin. Paul now explains two possible outcomes believers will experience depending on their choice. If you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. The Reformed-Calvinist view is that
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