Carnal Christian

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him. — read the full passage →

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. — read the full passage →

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. — read the full passage →

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith. — read the full passage →

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, — read the full passage →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can’t deny himself.”

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; — read the full passage →

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. — read the full passage →

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. — read the full passage →

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; — read the full passage →

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,