What are you yielding to

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Flesh loves for flesh to look to them. Flesh loves admiration , adoration, recognition flesh loves to be exalted loves honor of mankind and  Flesh loves to be elevated loves pleasures loves glory of mankind , fame, riches and temporal gains. Flesh is starved for the things that exalt itself and place greater importance on one's self. Flesh lusteth against The Spirit and The Spirit against the flesh. Lust of the flesh have to be crucified if we walk in The Spirit we shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey , his servants you are to whom you obey whether of sins unto death or if obedience unto Righteousness ?

Paul instructed do not receive the Grace of God in vain.  Saved by Grace through faith ...
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.

But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus has overcome the world . Greater is He who is in us than he that is in the world. We are overcomers by the Blood of The Lamb and the word of our testimony. 

It's not enough to have a form of Godliness do not deny the power thereof He has overcome the world His Life giving Spirit will cause us to be overcomers  and more than conquerors.  The Spirit of the Lord quickens  (makes alive) we can overcome those things that so easily beset us.