And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;

And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonah; for flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

And He said: "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh."

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.

And were not those days to shortened, no flesh would be saved; but, for the sake of the chosen, these days will be shortened.

And five of them were foolish, and five wise.

For the foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them.

And the foolish 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 the two shall become one flesh." So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days.

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

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God."

See 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 became flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only begotten of a 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 my bread, he will live for ever. Yea, and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly do I say to you, 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 everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day.

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

He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him.

It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.

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

according as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that he should give everlasting life to all whom thou hast given him.

"It shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams;

Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue exulted; moreover also, my flesh shall dwell in hope;

he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the underworld, nor did his flesh see corruption.

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

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision, which is outward, in the flesh;

Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.

What advantage then shall we say that Abraham our father had as to the flesh?

I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good thing; for to desire is present with me, but not to perform that which is good.

Thanks be to God, [who hath delivered me] through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then, I, the same person, with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God hath done, who on account of sin sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and passed sentence of condemnation on sin in the flesh;

so that what is required by the Law might be accomplished in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For they who are according to the flesh have their mind on the things of the flesh; but they who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

And they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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

So then, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.

For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;

whose are the fathers, and from whom, as to the flesh, was the Christ. He who is over all, God, be blessed for ever! Amen.

But I say, Hath not Israel had knowledge? First, Moses saith, "I will move you to jealousy by that which is no nation, I will excite you to indignation by a foolish people."

that I may, if possible, excite to emulation those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

but clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and think not about satisfying the lusts of the flesh.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is put in danger of falling, or is made weak.

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world did God choose, to put to shame the things which are strong;

that no flesh might glory before God.

to deliver such a man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Know ye not, that he who is connected with a harlot is one body with her? "For the two," saith he, "shall become one flesh;"

But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.

Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?

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

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Having, then, this purpose, did I act with levity? Or in my purposes do I resolve according to the flesh, that with me there should be now yea, yea, and now nay, nay?

For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

So that we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; and if we have even known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know him.

Having then these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

but I entreat you, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think of being bold towards some, who think of us as walking according to the flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will boast also.

And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

to reveal his Son within me, that I might publish the glad tidings of him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

but knowing that a man is not accepted as righteous by the works of the Law, but by faith in Christ Jesus, we also have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted as righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be accepted as righteous.

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

O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you? before whose eyes Jesus Christ was plainly set forth among you crucified.

Are ye so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, do ye now end with the flesh?

Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,

and my trial which was in my flesh ye did not despise nor spurn; but received me as an angel of God, yea, as Christ Jesus.

But the one by the bondwoman was born after the flesh; while the one by the freewoman was through the promise.

But as at that time he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born through the Spirit, so it is now.

For ye, brethren, were called to liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.

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

And they who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.

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

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, these are constraining you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

For not even do they who become circumcised themselves keep the Law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;

Wherefore remember, that in time past ye, the gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by those who are called circumcised, having the circumcision of the flesh, performed by hand,

having abolished in his flesh the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create of the two one new man in himself, thus making peace,

neither obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor indecent jesting, which are not becoming; but rather giving of thanks.

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ doth the church;

for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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

Bondservants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as serving Christ;

for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the worldrulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of evil in the heavenly regions.

But if to live in the flesh, if this is to me the fruit of my labor, then what I should choose, I cannot say;

but to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

though I myself have reason for confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath reason for confidence in the flesh, I more;