14 Bible Verses about Limitations Of The Body
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And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.
And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;
And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:
That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
