“You’ve described the freedom from the law accurately, but you’re forgetting a key part of this freedom. It’s not just freedom from the law; it’s freedom for something. Without the Spirit, freedom would just be lawlessness. I’m using wordplay to show that trusting in human effort for righteousness is, in the broader sense, also ‘walking in the flesh.’ Flesh is temporary, corruptible, dying. “But the Spirit?” Paul lifted a hand slightly, as if grasping at something unseen.