'Flesh' in the Bible

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

he looked ahead and spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah: "He was not abandoned to Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.'

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.

For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the form of humanity, he condemned sin by being incarnate,

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.

You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals in general have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.

I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.

For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,

Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

For we are parts of his body of his flesh and of his bones.

"That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

For it is we who are the circumcision we who worship in the Spirit of God and find our joy in the Messiah Jesus. We have not placed any confidence in the flesh,

although I could have confidence in the flesh. If anyone thinks he can place confidence in the flesh, I have more reason to think so.

Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.

Even when you were dead because of your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with him when he forgave us all of our offenses,

By common confession, the secret of our godly worship is great: In flesh was he revealed to sight, kept righteous by the Spirit's might, adored by angels singing. To nations was he manifest, believing souls found peace and rest, our Lord in heaven reigning!

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be used as evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasures in these last days.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Indeed, this is why the gospel was proclaimed even to those who have died, so that they could be judged in their mortal flesh like all humans and live in the spiritual realm like God.

especially those who satisfy their flesh by indulging in its passions and who despise authority.

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

In a similar way, these dreamers also defile their flesh, reject the Lord's authority, and slander his glorious beings.

The ten horns and the beast you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her abandoned and naked. They will eat her flesh and burn her up with fire,

Eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of warriors, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, both free and slaves, both unimportant and important."

The rest were killed by the sword that belonged to the rider on the horse and that came from his mouth, and all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.