Thematic Bible: The flesh
Thematic Bible
Flesh » The flesh
My flesh and heart failed, [but] God [is] the {strength} of my heart and my reward forever.
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The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
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For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
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all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.
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A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field. Grass withers; [the] flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people [are] grass. Grass withers; [the] flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"
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Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"
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Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.
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But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things]. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. read more.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, [things] which I am telling you [in advance], just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The flesh » Mortify the
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.
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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
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Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
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knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.
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Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.
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in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.
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But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.
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And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw [it] from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body 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] from you! It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire!
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Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires 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 are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
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because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.
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For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.
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Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.
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and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
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For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].
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War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
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but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.
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Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
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For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].
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And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one]. Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air. But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.
Warfare of saints » Is against » The flesh
even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
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but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.
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Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
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For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].
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And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all [things]. Thus those [do so] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable [one]. Therefore I run in this way, not as [running] aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air. But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.
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