The Flesh

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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 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.

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.

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

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart. — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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 →

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 →

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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

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 →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

I and the Father are one.” — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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.

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, — read the full passage →

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,

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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.

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

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 →

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” — read the full passage →

Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?” — read the full passage →

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

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.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

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 I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. — read the full passage →

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.