to, depend on, and cooperate with. Therefore, the Christian faces the decision whether to follow the Spirit in this way or to give in to the flesh.52 Since in vv. 15–17 the conflict has been consistently spoken of in terms of the Spirit and the flesh, we might have expected Paul to say: “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the flesh.” Instead, he says “you are not under law.” This transition from the Spirit-flesh conflict to the Spirit-law antithesis suggests two important and related