Matt.16.17And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Matt.19.5and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?
Matt.19.6So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matt.26.41Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark.10.8and they shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Mark.14.38Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Luke.3.6and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
Luke.24.39See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
John.1.13who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John.1.14And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John.3.6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John.6.51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John.6.52The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
John.6.53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John.6.54Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John.6.55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
John.6.56Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
John.6.63It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
John.8.15You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
John.17.2since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
Acts.2.17“ ‘ And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Acts.2.26therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.
Acts.2.31he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Rom.1.3concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
Rom.4.1What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
Rom.7.5For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Rom.7.14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Rom.7.18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Rom.7.25Thanks 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.
Rom.8.3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom.8.4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom.8.5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Rom.8.6To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Rom.8.7For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
Rom.8.8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom.8.9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Rom.8.12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Rom.8.13For 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.
Rom.9.3For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
Rom.9.5To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Rom.9.8This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Rom.13.14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
1Cor.3.1But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1Cor.3.3for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
1Cor.5.5you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
1Cor.6.16Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
1Cor.15.39For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
1Cor.15.50I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
2Cor.1.17Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
2Cor.4.11For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
2Cor.5.16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
2Cor.10.2I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.
2Cor.10.3For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
2Cor.10.4For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
2Cor.11.18Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
2Cor.12.7So to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.
Gal.2.20I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal.3.3Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
Gal.4.23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
Gal.4.29But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Gal.5.13For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Gal.5.16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Gal.5.17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Gal.5.19Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Gal.5.24And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Gal.6.8For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Gal.6.12It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Gal.6.13For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
Eph.2.3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, the rest of mankind.
Eph.2.11Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
Eph.2.14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Eph.5.29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
Eph.5.31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Eph.6.12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Phil.1.22If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.
Phil.1.24But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your .
Phil.3.2Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
Phil.3.3For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—
Phil.3.4though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
Col.1.22he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
Col.1.24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Col.2.11In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Col.2.13And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Col.2.23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
1Tim.3.16Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Phlm.1.16no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
Heb.2.14Since therefore the children in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Heb.5.7In the days of his flesh, Jesusoffered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Heb.9.13For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,
Heb.10.20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
Jas.5.3Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
1Pet.1.24for “ All flesh is grass and all its glory the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
1Pet.2.11Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
1Pet.3.18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1Pet.4.1Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
1Pet.4.2so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
1Pet.4.6For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
2Pet.2.18For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
1John.2.16For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1John.4.2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
2John.1.7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Jude.1.8Yet in manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
Jude.1.23save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
Rev.17.16And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,
Rev.19.18to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.”
Rev.19.21And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.
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