{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050820.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050820.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050820.htm","text":"Chapter 21.\u2014No Condemnation in Christ Jesus.\nThen he adds the reason why he said all these things: \u201cO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The grace of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!\u201d And thence he concludes: \u201cTherefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.\u201d 2580 To wit, with the flesh, the law of sin, by lusting; but with the mind, the law of God, by not consenting to that lust. \u201cFor there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.\u201d 2581 For he is not condemned who does not consent to the evil of the lust of the flesh. \u201cFor the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made thee free from the law of sin and death,\u201d so that, to wit, the lust of the flesh may not appropriate to itself thy consent. And what follows more and more demonstrates the same meaning. But moderation must be used.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}