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'According to the Flesh' in the Bible

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

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

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