14 Bible Verses about Limitations Of The Body
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Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
