He made us alive and made us his dwelling place through Jesus Christ. Keep trusting him and depending on him and submitting to him. Resist all contenders for the throne of your life. It belongs to God. Second, sin is a power, not just an act.
Sin threatens to reign.
It is not just the acts we do but the power that takes us captive through desires and brings actions about. Third, the desires of the body are not sin in and of themselves, but are servants of the body and can be captured by the rebel leader, sin, and made into internal enemy agents that seduce us into handing over members of our body that become weapons of unrighteousness. In other words, the desires of the body can be captured by the power of sin and made to serve anti-God aims. Pleasing Delilah was a legitimate thing for Samson to do while she was a faithful wife. But when she was a secret agent of the enemy, Samson s surrender to her meant destruction.