Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Born of the flesh
General references
Bible References
Born of the flesh
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.
Genesis 6:5
But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
Job 14:4
Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
Job 15:14
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
Psalm 51:10
Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:17
So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away -- look, what is new has come!
Galatians 5:16
But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest
Colossians 2:11
In him you also were circumcised -- not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.
General references
Mark 10:15
I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."
1 Corinthians 6:17
But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.