'Flesh' in the Bible

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.