And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

And if those days had not been shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them;

And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

Watch and pray, so that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

And if the Lord had not shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

You foolish ones! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

And he said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Then the Jews began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

as you have given him authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to all those you have given him.

'And in the last days it shall be, God says, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh also will live in hope,

he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish:

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth

For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something outward and in the flesh.

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

I am speaking in human terms, because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for holiness.

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.

Thanks be to Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin: he condemned sin in the flesh,

in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtorsnot to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

Of them are the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, forever blessed. Amen.

In other words, it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are reckoned as descendants.

Again I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; by a foolish nation I will make you angry."

in the hope that I may somehow arouse to jealousy the kinsmen of my flesh and save some of them.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong,

so that no flesh may boast before God.

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

For not all flesh is the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of birds, and another of fish.

Now I tell you this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

For we who live are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turnconflicts on the outside and fears within.

I beg you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war as the flesh does.

I repeat, let no one think me foolish; but even if you do, receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.

And to keep me from being too elated because of the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.

to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law will no flesh be justified.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

you know it was because of an illness in the flesh that I preached the gospel to you at first;

But the son by the slave was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now.

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

Among them we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "Uncircumcision" by the so-called "Circumcision," which is performed in the flesh by human hands

by abolishing in his flesh the hostility, which is the Law of commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ;

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.