“How is it that sin can reign in you?
It is not from any power of its own but only from your laziness…
He [St. Paul] does not say, let not the flesh live and act, but, [rather] let not sin reign,’ for He came not to destroy our nature, but to set our free choice aright… [for] the body is not evil, since it may be made an instrument of righteousness…
The flesh becomes either good or evil according to the minds decision, not because of its own nature.”
St. John Chrysostom