'Flesh' in the Bible

And Jesus answered him, "You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

Now this is what I am saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

even because of the extraordinary character of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me -- so that I would not become arrogant.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

because the person 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.

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh -- who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is performed on the body by human hands --

when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace,

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,

Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God's standards.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.

The ten horns that you saw, and the beast -- these will hate the prostitute and make her desolate and naked. They will consume her flesh and burn her up with fire.

to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!"

The others were killed by the sword that extended from the mouth of the one who rode the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.