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If this is my body suit, where can I go to get alterations? I'd like it taken in a little round the waist, and, well, uh, okay, everywhere.

Try this scheme: (1)The union of soil and God's breath makes man a living soul.
(2)Man rejects the source of the life-giving breath. (3)Consequently the "integrity" of the union is fatally compromised and the body (aka "the flesh") manifests its disintegrative tendency, the tendency to, as we technically say, "croak".
(4)The neshemah, the Divine Flatus (no I'm not kidding, somebody really said that) is yielded back.
(5)In other words, human life as we come upon it empirically tends toward death, or 'title' to 'breath' is illegitimate and we cannot maintain possession. (Am I mixing enough metaphors here?
(6)Jesus also dies, gives up his ghost, and, IN PLACE of that former spirit which we sinners qua sinners never seemed to want anyway, gives us HIS spirit.
(7) Therefore St Paul says, You have died and your life is hid with Christ. Therefore he says, the Spirit prays within us. Therefore we are now a new body, Christ's body vivified with Christ's spirit.

So when St. Paul says nasty things about "the flesh" he is not being all gnostic and dualist and Platonic. Rather he is talking about what the flesh does, where it tends, when it isn't vivified with God's breath. It tends toward death. The "works if the flesh" tend toward death, etc.

In Christ, that tendency is accomplished. It's worked out all the way to its end. He gives up the ghost.

And if we join in a death like His we will join in His life. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. And, Christ being raised from the dead, will never die again, Death no longer has dominion over Him. For in that He died, he died to Sin once for all, but in that He lives, He lives unto God, So also you must consider yourselves dead unto sin and alive to God in Jesus Christ our lord.

And so also, the poor in spirit, those of us who have been given to see that we have zip, and such spirit as we have we already refused "in Adam", are blessed because he gives us His Spirit. And so We say, "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.

I tend to like Sundays. They get me goin' ....