Galatians 5:17
Douay-Rheims
For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.
Augustine of Hippo
The "flesh struggles against the spirit" yet does not subdue it, since the spirit also "struggles against the flesh." Although that same law of sin holds something of the flesh as its prisoner and thereby resists the law of the mind it does not, however, reign in our body, mortal though it is, if our body does not voluntarily obey its desires.
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A.D. 430 · on Gal 5:17 (ON MARRIAGE AND CONCUPISCENCE 1.35)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.