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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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
That we should mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit is required of us, but that we may live is offered to us…. Shall we therefore agree to say that the mortification of the flesh is not a gift of God and not confess it to be a gift of God, since we hear that it is required of us, with life offered as a reward to us if we have done it? Predestination of the Saints
