19 occurrences in 5 translations

'Carnal' in the Bible

So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]—

Verse ConceptsLiving For The MaterialDebtRespecting Your Body

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In The GospelParticipation, In ChristUnity, Of God's PeopleThat Which Is SpiritualLife In A Material WorldSharing In ChristSharingDebt

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Verse ConceptsApollosSchismsLike MenOpportunityactingfollowing

you are to hand over this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Verse ConceptsDestructionLordship, Human And DivineCorrecting A BrotherHanding Over ChristThe Fact Of That DayThe Gospel Of SalvationSatanSurrenderThe Devil

Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.

Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfForeshadowingPast, TheRebellion, Of IsraelExample Of BelieversEverything Happening For A Reason

In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but by the [spiritual] circumcision of Christ in the stripping off of the body of the flesh [the sinful carnal nature],

Verse ConceptsBeing Born AgainParticipation, In ChristRitualTypesNew Birth, Described AsForsaking SinGod Stripping PeopleLiving Not For The MaterialTrue CircumcisionRemoving People From Your Lifeefficiency

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Eternity OfGod, Power OfChrist's Life

Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Verse ConceptsRitualLimitations Of The Bodyorder

These are the ones who are [agitators] causing divisions—worldly-minded [secular, unspiritual, carnal, merely sensual—unsaved], devoid of the Spirit.

Verse ConceptsInstinctLiving For The MaterialWithout Godnatural LifeEmotionsGoing To Churchdivision

Bible Theasaurus

Animal (211 instances)
Carnal (20 instances)
Fleshly (27 instances)
Sensual (21 instances)
Worldly (35 instances)

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