And whoever heareth these words of mine, and performeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:

And Jesus replied and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon son of Jonas, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh:

so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. And therefore what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

but if any man swear by the gold of the temple, the oath is binding. Foolish and blind creatures! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

O foolish and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifieth the gift?

and five were foolish.

The foolish ones took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

and the foolish ones said to the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out:

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me 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 was made flesh, and dwelt among us, being full of grace and truth: and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father.

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 any one eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. And the bread, that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give up for the life of the world.

The Jews therefore cavilled amongst themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Then said Jesus unto them, I tell you truly, that unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink: he that feedeth on my flesh and drinketh my blood,

The spirit is the principle of life, the flesh availeth nothing: now the words that I speak unto you are spirit, and therefore life.

Ye judge according to the flesh, but I judge no man as yet:

as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that as to all which Thou hast given Him, He might give them eternal life;

"And it shall come to pass in the last days (saith God) that I will pour out of 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:

and my flesh shall rest in hope,

Therefore being a prophet; and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Messiah, to sit on his throne;

foreseeing this he spake of the resurrection of Christ, when he said, that his soul was not left in the invisible state, nor did his flesh see corruption.

who was of the seed of David according to the flesh,

nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh;

Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father obtained according to the flesh?

I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good: for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not.

The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are led by the Spirit, do mind spiritual things.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;

whose are the fathers, and of whom, as to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God blessed for ever. Amen.

That is, not the children of the flesh are the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted for the seed.

But I say again, Did not Israel know this? when first Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by those who are not a people, I will provoke you to anger by a foolish nation:"

I extol my office, that if possible I may excite to emulation my brethren according to the flesh, and may save some of them:

But put on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the flesh to gratify its irregular desires.

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing at which thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or weakened.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputant of the age? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For ye see by your calling, brethren, that not many wise men according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called:

but God hath chosen things that are foolish in the eye of the world to put it's wise men to confusion; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;

that no flesh may glory in his presence.

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

God forbid! What! know ye not that he who is joined to an harlot is one body with her? for these two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will never eat flesh while I breathe, least I make my brother to offend.

Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

All flesh is not the same kind of flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor doth what is corruptible inherit incorruption.

being manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, through our ministration, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on tables of the heart of flesh.

For we, who are yet living, are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Wherefore we henceforth know no one according to the flesh: and if we have known even Christ after the flesh, yet now we thus know Him no more.

Having therefore, my beloved, these promises, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

For though we are in the flesh, we do not carry on our war according to the flesh:

I say again, let no one think me foolish herein; but if they do, yet bear with my weakness, that I also may boast a little.

Since many boast in the flesh, I will boast also.

And least I should be too much lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, least I should be too much elevated.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach Him among the gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

I am crucified with Christ; yet I live, though no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave up himself for me.

Are ye so void of understanding? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

But ye know that in the infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at first:

and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected me for it; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him who was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only abuse not this liberty for an occasion to indulge the flesh, but by mutual love serve one another.

I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the desire of the flesh:

for the flesh desireth things contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit things contrary to the flesh: and these are opposite to each other; so that ye do not those things which ye would.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

And they, that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with it's passions and desires.

He then, who soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he, that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

They, who want to make a fair appearance in the flesh, would constrain you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For they, who are circumcised, do not themselves keep the law: but they would have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

among whom also we were all conversant heretofore in our carnal desires, indulging the appetites of the flesh and of our imaginations; and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

Wherefore remember that ye were formerly Gentiles in the flesh, called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision made by hands in the flesh;

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might form the two into one new man, in Himself, so making peace;

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord also doth the church:

for we are members of his body, as if taken out of his flesh, and of his bones, as Eve was out of Adam's.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Servants, obey them that are your masters according to the flesh, with reverential fear, in the simplicity of your heart, as unto Christ:

For our conflict is not with flesh and blood only, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the world and of the darkness of this age, against wicked spirits in heavenly places.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:

but to abide in the flesh is more necessary for you.

For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.

Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks he hath whereof to trust in the flesh, I more:

yet now hath He reconciled in the body of his flesh, through death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight:

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision not performed by hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision which is of Christ:

And when ye were dead in trespasses, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,