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'Of the Flesh' in the Bible

In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambBonesGospel, Confirmation OfPassoverBodies Of AnimalsNo Bones BrokenOutside The HouseMessianic Prophecies

And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

Verse ConceptsBurning SacrificesRemaining Offerings

But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

Verse ConceptsBurning SacrificesRemaining Offerings

And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, Of WorshipThree Days

'And the flesh which cometh against any unclean thing is not eaten; with fire it is burnt; as to the flesh, every clean one doth eat of the flesh;

Verse ConceptsSanitation, DisinfectionTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsForbidden FoodUnclean Animals

but the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, that pertain unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Verse ConceptsPollution ForbiddenThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Ceremonial MattersPollutionsTouching Unclean ThingsPeople Being PollutedThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

Verse ConceptsHairsThe Hair Of The BodyWhite HairHairAbscess

Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white,

Verse ConceptsWhite SpotsRed Parts Of The BodyRemoving People From Your Lifescars

And when a man or a woman hath in the skin of the flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;

Verse ConceptsWhite SpotsBlemished Peoplescars

Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;

Verse ConceptsWhite SpotsRed Parts Of The Body

Speak unto the sons of Israel, and ye have said unto them, When there is an issue out of the flesh of any man, for his issue he is unclean;

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationDischarges

and also the swine, for though he divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not cud, and therefore is unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat of the flesh of them nor touch the dead carcasses of them.

Verse ConceptsTouchPigsTouching Unclean ThingsUnclean SpiritsEating Forbidden FoodUnclean Animalspork

And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadSeven DaysOvernight

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

Verse ConceptsCannibalism

And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsStewardshipBurning Sacrifices

On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

Verse ConceptsStomachs

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

Verse ConceptsLewdnessShovelsEvil EyesDeceiving OneselfThe Entrance Of SinCovetousnessGreedInfidelity

When we were living in the flesh [trapped by sin], the sinful passions, which were awakened by [that which] the Law [identifies as sin], were at work in our body to bear fruit for death [since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God].

Verse ConceptsFlesh As The Sinful NatureLustParticipation, In SinSin, Causes OfFruits Of SinEvil PassionsSins Of The FleshSin Producing DeathEvil DesiresEffect Of The LawSin Produces DeathSelf CenterednessGoing Through the MotionsPassionEmotions

We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am a creature of the flesh [worldly, self-reliant—carnal and unspiritual], sold into slavery to sin [and serving under its control].

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionBuying and sellingSpiritual UnderstandingSpiritualitySin, Consequences OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsLaw Described AsThat Which Is SpiritualExcellent LawSpiritual

but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members.

Verse ConceptsBodily LimbsSpiritual Warfare, As ConflictLiving Not For The MaterialEvil PrinciplesPrinciples Of WarMind BattlesGoing Through the MotionsstruggleWarLife StrugglesThe MindConflictStrugglesBeing DifferentBeing Uniquelawworkingmindset

so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power].

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfFruits Of RighteousnessThe Holy Spirit, And SanctificationThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureLiving Not For The MaterialFulfilling The LawScriptures FulfilledHuman Nature, Overcomingfulfillment

So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]—

Verse ConceptsLiving For The MaterialDebtRespecting Your Body

Yes, it has been their good pleasure; and they are in their debt. For if the Gentiles have had a part in the things of the Spirit which were theirs, it is right for them, in the same way, to give them help in the things of the flesh.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelParticipation, In ChristUnity, Of God's PeopleThat Which Is SpiritualLife In A Material WorldSharing In ChristSharingDebt

However, brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as to spiritual people, but [only] as to worldly people [dominated by human nature], mere infants [in the new life] in Christ!

Verse ConceptsBabies, Figurative UseCounselingSpiritual ImmaturityLiving For The MaterialLike ChildrenSpiritualchristianityactingchristChristians Being Called Brothers

You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?

Verse ConceptsArguingDiscordJealousyDramaWarfare, Nature OfCarnalitySin, Consequences OfFruits Of SinDivision Among ChristiansSpiritual ImmaturityQuarrelsWeakness In DivisionDislikingSins Of The FleshLike People By NatureAvoiding JealousyFighting One Another

In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;

Verse ConceptsLettersSexual AberrationsWarnings Of Evil AssociationsFellowship With SinnersNo DealingsSexual Immorality

But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

Verse ConceptsBad CompanyAlcoholGreed, Believers' Response ToBad FriendsFellowship With WickedSexual ChastityCorrecting A BrotherGood AssoiciatesWarnings Of Evil AssociationsAvoid ImmoralityAvoiding IdolatryNo DealingsAbusive RelationshipsAddictionCovetousnesssexGreedSexual Immoralitydrunkards

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

Verse ConceptsChastityLove, In RelationshipsSexual AberrationsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfTwenty Thousand And UpOne DayAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view [according to worldly standards and values]. Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.

Verse ConceptsFlesh, Description OfKnowing PeopleLiving Not For The MaterialPerspective

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

Verse ConceptsGentlenessFaultsTimidityJesus Christ, Meekness OfMeekness, Examples OfChrist's GentlenessA Bold FrontContact With PeopleGone AwayHumble PeopleIn Men's PresenceAbsenceGentleness As A Fruit Of The Spirithumbleserenitygraciousness

I beg of you that when I do come I may not have to speak out and be peremptory; but my mind is made up to tackle certain people who have made up their minds that I move on the low level of the flesh.

Verse ConceptsLifestylesBoldness, To PeopleLiving For The MaterialA Bold FrontIn Men's PresenceSpiritual WarfareBoldnessmotives

For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh

Verse ConceptsLiving Not For The MaterialPrinciples Of WarSpiritual Warfaremotivesperfectionism

And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessAdultery, Results OfDisappointments, Examples OfHumilitySanctification, Means And ResultsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfLasciviousnessInsensibilityAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

Ye know how though infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you at first.

Verse ConceptsBecoming Like PeopleWronging Other PeopleAnxiety And Stress

But he by the servant woman was born of the flesh, and he by the free woman, by the promise.

Verse ConceptsGod's Promise To AbrahamLife In A Material WorldThe Promise Of A Babyslaverysarah

But, just as, then, he that after the manner of the flesh had been born, did persecute him who had been born after the manner of the Spirit, thus, also now.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesPersecution, Nature OfLife In A Material WorldThe Promise Of A BabyPersecutionSatanic Hatred

For the sinful nature has its desire which is opposed to the Spirit, and the [desire of the] Spirit opposes the sinful nature; for these [two, the sinful nature and the Spirit] are in direct opposition to each other [continually in conflict], so that you [as believers] do not [always] do whatever [good things] you want to do.

Verse ConceptsFaultsThe Attitude Towards The FleshFlesh As The Sinful NatureSpiritual Warfare, As ConflictSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InDepravity Of ManThe Holy Spirit, And SanctificationResisting Holy SpiritGod OpposingEvil DesiresGod's DesiresOne's DeedsMind BattlesHuman Nature, OvercomingstruggleLife StrugglesSpiritual WarfareConflictStrugglesactingWorld Opposed To God

Wherefore remember, that in time past ye, the gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by those who are called circumcised, having the circumcision of the flesh, performed by hand,

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBodyLiving For The MaterialNecessity Of Circumcision

Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

Verse ConceptsRitualLimitations Of The Bodyorder

than the sacrificers had to eat of the flesh of those beasts, which were burnt without the camp, and whose blood the highpriest carried into the sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsFilthinessExpiationBlood Of SacrificesOutside The CampCorpses Of AnimalsBurning SacrificesRegulations For The Sin Offering

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

Verse ConceptsConformityChristlikenessSpiritual Warfare, ArmourThinking ArightThe Fact Of Christ's DeathMind BattlesAttitudeHuman Nature, OvercomingSuffering

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

Verse ConceptsDaylightExcessBlemishLove FeastLove, Nature OfWagesPleasure SeekersRiotsBlemished PeopleDuring The DayWages For EvilPartying

But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianFoodAdultery, SpiritualChastityToleranceAbuse, Of Christian FreedomFalse Teachers, Examples OfStumbling BlocksMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed ImmoralitysexSexual Immorality

But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsOpposition, To Sin And EvilPeople Of God, In NtFalse Prophets, Examples OfSexual Sin, Nature OfProphetessSeducersBeing MisleadMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed Immoralityjezebel

And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.

Verse ConceptsChastityImmorality, Nature Of SexualDebaucheryMagiciansThey Committed ImmoralitySorcerySexual ImmoralitySexual PurityDrugsmagicwitches

to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!"

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallSlave Or Freerevelation

Of the Fleshnot in Jubilee 2000 Bible

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