7 Bible Verses about The Attitude Towards The Flesh

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right. I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do. But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is not I that am acting, it is sin, which has possession of me.read more.
I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong. My inner nature agrees with the divine law, but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life??hese do not come from the Father, but from the world; and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control, for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live.

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.