'Flesh' in the Bible

I will bring distress on mankind,and they will walk like the blindbecause they have sinned against the Lord.Their blood will be poured out like dustand their flesh like dung.

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is going astray go astray; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.”

I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

This will be the plague the Lord strikes all the peoples with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

And Jesus responded, “Simon son of Jonah, you are blessed because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father in heaven.

and He also said:“For this reason a man will leavehis father and motherand be joined to his wife,and the two will become one flesh?

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter 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 so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Look at My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself! Touch Me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”

who were born,not of blood,or of the will of the flesh,or of the will of man,but of God.

The Word became fleshand took up residence among us.We observed His glory,the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,full of grace and truth.

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

for You gave Him authorityover all flesh;so He may give eternal lifeto all You have given Him.

Therefore my heart was glad,and my tongue rejoiced.Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope,

Seeing this in advance, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah:He was not left in Hades,and His flesh did not experience decay.

concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh, to the law of sin.

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

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

Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.

Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.

It is clear that you are Christ’s letter, produced by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God—not on stone tablets but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For we who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus’ life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Therefore, dear friends, since we have such promises, let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, completing our sanctification in the fear of God.

For though we live in the body, we do not wage war in an unspiritual way,

especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so I would not exalt myself.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now going to be made complete by the flesh?

But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

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

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

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised—but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves; however, they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands.

For He is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In His flesh,

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

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

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

Now if I live on in the flesh, this means fruitful work for me; and I don’t know which one I should choose.

but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for you.

Watch out for “dogs,” watch out for evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh—

although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.

You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.

And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.

And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great:He was manifested in the flesh,vindicated in the Spirit,seen by angels,preached among the nations,believed on in the world,taken up in glory.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave—as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but even more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh),

Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!

ForAll flesh is like grass,and all its glory like a flower of the grass.The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;

For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.

save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

The 10 horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her up with fire.

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”

The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.