Carnality

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?

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

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.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

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

For there are three who testify:

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says, — read the full passage →

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.

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

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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.

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

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

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. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

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

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

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

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it. — read the full passage →

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

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

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 →

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

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.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

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 →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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

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 →

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →