Thematic Bible: The flesh
Thematic Bible
Flesh » The flesh
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.
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For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
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Watch and pray, so that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
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Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
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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.
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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. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. read more.
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The flesh » Mortify the
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.
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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
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Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.
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We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
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Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
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And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
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Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.
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The flesh » General references to man's carnal nature
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.
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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.
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For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of lifeis not of the Father but is of the world.
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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.
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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.
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and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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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.
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War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
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.
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but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
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Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.
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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.
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Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as a man beating the air. But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Warfare of saints » Is against » The flesh
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.
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but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
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Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.
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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.
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Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly. I do not box as a man beating the air. But I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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