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'According to the Flesh' in the Bible

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that from the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

When I therefore was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

Wherefore henceforth we know no man according to the flesh: though indeed we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now henceforth we know him no more.

But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, with which I think to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

But he who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the flesh; but he of the free-woman was by promise.

But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.