Reference: Fleshly
Morish
1. ????????, 'belonging to the flesh:' applied to the fallen condition of man: to his wisdom,
2Co 1:12; and to his lusts. 1Pe 2:11. The same word is translated CARNAL. In Ro 7:14 it is 'fleshly,' morally (the state of a new-born soul under bondage, doing the things he hates); in Ro 15:27 it is 'fleshly' physically; and in some passages it is the fleshly or carnal condition of the Christian as led of the flesh. The word occurs in 1Co 3:1,3-4; 9:11; 2Co 10:4; Heb 7:16. In most of these passages some MSS read ????????, 'fleshy.'
2. ????, 'flesh:' in Ro 8:7; Col 2:18 it is 'mind of the flesh;' and in Heb 9:10 it is 'ordinances of flesh.' This Greek word is commonly translated 'flesh,' q. v.
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For we know that the Law is spiritual; but as for me, I am a creature of flesh, bought and sold under the dominion of sin.
For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;
Yes, it has been made their good pleasure, and their debt, too. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual riches, they owe it to them also to minister to them the Jews in worldly goods.
As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.
You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings? When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings?
If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?
For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.
Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;
who has become such, not according to the law of a transitory enactment, but according to the energy of an indissoluble life.
since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.
I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.