Thematic Bible: The flesh
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Flesh » The flesh
My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
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It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
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All flesh would perish together, and man would turn again unto dust.
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The voice said, } Cry. { And he said, What shall I cry? {} All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is as the flower of the field: The grass withers, the flower fades: because the breath of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.
Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would. But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. read more.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
The flesh » Mortify the
For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin.
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And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
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This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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And if your right eye causes you to offend, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
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Therefore if your hand or your foot offend you, cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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The flesh » General references to man's carnal nature
For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
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I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
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War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
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And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air: But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Warfare of saints » Is against » The flesh
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
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And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not with uncertainty; so fight I, not as one that beats the air: But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
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