Thematic Bible: The flesh
Thematic Bible
Flesh » The flesh
What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.
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for All flesh is like the grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass: the grass withers and the flower fades,
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Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."
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Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."
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God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)
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I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh. For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please. If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law. read more.
Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.
Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.
The flesh » Mortify the
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
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No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.
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So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
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knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin
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Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.
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nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.
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I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.
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If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.
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If your hand or your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away; better be maimed or crippled and get into Life, than keep both feet or hands and be thrown into the everlasting fire.
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Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.
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The flesh » General references to man's carnal nature
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
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he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.
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For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;
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For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.
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God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)
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Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.
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For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.
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War » Figurative » Is against » The flesh
My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;
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but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.
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Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.
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For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.
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Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
Warfare of saints » Is against » The flesh
My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;
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but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.
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Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.
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For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.
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Every athlete practises self-restraint all round; but while they do it to win a fading wreath, we do it for an unfading. Well, I run without swerving; I do not plant my blows upon the empty air ??27 no, I maul and master my body, in case, after preaching to other people, I am disqualified myself.
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