So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
In other passages also he is accustomed to put the natural condition instead of the works that are done therein, as when he says, that "they who are in the flesh cannot please God.".
Although he affirms that "they who are in the flesh cannot please God".
For when he actually declares that "they who are in the flesh cannot please God "he immediately recalls the statement from an heretical sense to a sound one, by adding, "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit.".
"Openly let us vindicate our disciplines. Sure we are that "they who are in the flesh cannot please God; "
