14 Bible Verses about Limitations Of The Body
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The LORD said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Without being weakened in faith, he considered his own body as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
but deal only with foods and drinks and various washings; they are regulations for the flesh imposed until the time of setting things right.
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Watch and pray, that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.