Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Gal 5:17). This normal conflict within all believers is described by Paul in Romans 7:14ff. It is up to us to “work out [our] own salvation with fear and trembling” because we know that “it is God which worketh in [us] both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:12–13). Sanctification is accomplished as we “mortify the deeds of the body”; but we cannot do it in our own power