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 I am made of flesh that is frail, sold into slavery to sin.
Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.
They certainly were delighted to do it, and they really are under obligation to them, for if the heathen peoples have shared in their spiritual blessings, they ought to serve them in material blessings.
So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.
for you are still unspiritual. For when there are still jealousy and wrangling among you, are you not still unspiritual and living by a human standard? For when one says, "I belong to Paul's party," and another, "I belong to Apollos' party," are you not acting as mere human creatures?
If we have sown the spiritual seed for you, is it too great for us to reap a material support from you?
For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.
Stop letting anyone, in gratuitous humility and worship of angels, defraud you as an umpire, for such a one is taking his stand on the mere visions he has seen, and is groundlessly conceited over his sensuous mind.
who is appointed not on the basis of a physical qualification but on the basis of a power flowing from a life that cannot end.
since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight.
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.