For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
Paul does not prevent them from living their lives in the flesh, for he was himself in the flesh when he wrote to them, but he cuts away the lusts of the flesh which bring death upon a man. .