'Of the Flesh' in the Bible

who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

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.

the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses ??5 I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.)

I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;