Reference: Natural
Hastings
The contrast between 'natural' (Gr. psychikos) and 'spiritual' (pneumatikos) is drawn out by St. Paul in 1Co 15:44-46. The natural body is derived from the first Adam, and is our body in so far as it is accommodated to, and limited by, the needs of the animal side of the human nature. In such a sense it is especially true that 'the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God' (1Co 2:14). Man derives his spiritual life from union with Christ ('the last Adam'), but his present body is not adapted to the needs of this spiritual existence; hence the distinction made by St. Paul between the natural body (called the 'body of death,' Ro 7:24) and the spiritual body of the resurrection. The transference from the one to the other begins in this life, and the two beings are identical in so far as continuity creates an identity, but otherwise, owing to the operation of the union with Christ, distinct.
T. A. Moxon.
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Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?
But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit. read more. But the spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
Morish
That which is according to nature.
1. ???????, 'origin, birth.' Man beholds his natural face in a glass. Jas 1:23.
2. ???? ?????, 'according to nature.' The Israelites are called the natural branches of the olive tree which God planted on earth. Ro 11:21,24. ???????, 'that which belongs to nature.' Ro 1:26-27; 2Pe 2:12; Jude 1:10.
3. ???????, from 'life, soul.' "The natural man that is, a man characterised by the natural life of the soul, without the teaching and power of the Holy Spirit receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." 1Co 2:14. The body of the Christian is sown 'a natural body' (having had natural life through the living soul); it will be raised 'a spiritual body.' 1Co 15:44-46.
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Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature, and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.
for if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.
For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.
But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit. read more. But the spiritual was not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a glass;
But these blaspheme what they do not understand, and what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
Watsons
NATURAL, ???????, is a term that frequently occurs in the apostolic writings: "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned," 1Co 2:14. Here it is plain that by "the natural man," is not meant a person, devoid of natural judgment, reason, or conscience, in which sense the expression is often used among men. Nor does it signify one who is entirely governed by his fleshly appetites, or what the world calls a voluptuary, or sensualist. Neither does it signify merely a man in the rude state of nature, whose faculties have not been cultivated by learning and study, and polished by an intercourse with society. The Apostle manifestly takes his "natural man" from among such as the world hold in the highest repute for their natural parts, their learning, and their religion. He selects him from among the philosophers of Greece, who sought after wisdom, and from among the Jewish scribes, who were instructed in the revealed law of God, 1Co 1:22-23. These are the persons whom he terms the wise, the scribes, the disputers of this world
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Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, I tell you most truly, unless a man is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.
Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
and since the Jews seek signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom, we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness,
we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed an offense, and to the gentiles foolishness,
But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned. But the spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. read more. And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be profited. Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
For those once enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and having tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the life to come, read more. and having fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of mind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God. But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and produces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;