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 one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 6:5
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Job 14:4
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
Job 15:14
What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (dependable) spirit within me.
Romans 7:5
When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Romans 8:1
Those who live through (in union with) (because of) Jesus Christ have no condemnation. [They do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.]
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is from the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:17
If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
Galatians 5:16
I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Ephesians 2:3
We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.
Colossians 2:11
You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.
General references
Mark 10:15
Truly I tell you, he who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child shall not enter it.
1 Corinthians 6:17
He who is joined to the Lord is one (united with him in) spirit.