so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

and the two will become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Therefore my heart was glad,
and my tongue rejoiced.
Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope,

Seeing this in advance, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah:

He was not left in Hades,
and His flesh did not experience decay.

concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.

in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.