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-# Connecting Statement:
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-Paul continues to contrast the flesh with the Spirit we now have.
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 # the mind set on the flesh ... the mind set on the Spirit
 
-Here Paul speaks of both the "flesh" and the "spirit" as if they were living persons. Alternate translation: "the way sinful people think ... the way people who listen to the Holy Spirit think" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])
+"the way sinful people think ... the way people who listen to the Holy Spirit think"
 
 # death