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Flesh
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for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace;
And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .
for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;
because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →
because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'
have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;
And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.
that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--
for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,
honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.
Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; — read the full passage →
And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →
And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal <FI>it<Fi> to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.
and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →
For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →
and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that <FI>are<Fi> through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead.
for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,
And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.
Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--
And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you--by works of law or by the hearing of faith <FI>is it<Fi> ?
for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin; — read the full passage →
And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →
`And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which <FI>is<Fi> a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that <FI>is<Fi> in the earth doth expire.
And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;
Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?
for yet ye are fleshly, for where <FI>there is<Fi> among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that <FI>is<Fi> in my members.
Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world; — read the full passage →
So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
and of all that liveth, of all flesh, two of every <FI>sort<Fi> thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep alive with thee; male and female are they.
And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;
`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'
All flesh <FI>is<Fi> not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds;
I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'
and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, — read the full passage →
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done--to stand.
A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin?
if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;
put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,
Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →
for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?
that is, the children of the flesh--these <FI>are<Fi> not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;
I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'
`Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, God of all flesh: For Me is anything too wonderful?
And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →
Then saith Jesus to him, `Go--Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; — read the full passage →
Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: `I <FI>am<Fi> the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.
And He remembereth that they <FI>are<Fi> flesh, A wind going on--and it returneth not.
Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,
And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you--through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--who in presence, indeed <FI>am<Fi> humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you, — read the full passage →
I and the Father are one.' — read the full passage →
this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'
in one house it is eaten, thou dost not carry out of the house <FI>any<Fi> of the flesh without, and a bone ye do not break of it;
And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' — read the full passage →
And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, — read the full passage →
And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, — read the full passage →
and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him--all messengers of God;'
Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →
concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,
And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'
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