King James Bible
"And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts."
Paul identifies believers as those who belong to Christ through faith. This ownership language emphasizes both identity and allegiance—Christians are marked by their relationship to Jesus rather than adherence to the law. Using crucifixion imagery, Paul describes a decisive break with the sinful nature. The perfect tense suggests a completed action with ongoing effects, paralleling Christ's actual crucifixion and indicating believers have definitively rejected their old self-directed way of life. The flesh's power manifests through passionate desires and cravings that oppose God's Spirit. By including both emotions and appetites, Paul encompasses the full range of human impulses that must be put to death in the believer's transformation.