Bible verses about "flesh" | Haweis

¹³ For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

⁷ Because the propensity of the flesh is inimical against God: for it is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

¹⁶ Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness?

¹⁸ Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

¹² For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; for your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, prowleth around, seeking whom he may devour:

⁵ For they who are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

¹ IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. ² Fix your minds on things above, not on things on the earth. ³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ shall appear, who is our life, then shall you also with him be manifested in glory. ⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry: ⁶ for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience; ⁷ in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them: ⁸ but now ye have put away all these things, anger, asperity, malice, scandal, obscenity, out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices; ¹⁰ and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. ¹¹ Where there is no difference whether a man be Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian or Scythian, slave or freeman: but Christ is all and in all. ¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; ¹³ forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye. ¹⁴ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God set up its throne in your hearts, whereunto also ye have been called in one body; and be ye thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. ¹⁷ And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. ¹⁸ Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord. ¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them. ²⁰ Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. ²¹ Parents, irritate not your children, lest their spirit be broken. ²² Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God. ²³ And in every thing that ye do, labour from the soul, as for the Lord, and not man; ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But he that is guilty of injustice shall receive punishment for the wrong he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

¹³ No temptation hath overtaken you, but what is common to men. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able to bear; but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear up under it.

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

¹⁶ But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁸ They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.