Quotes About Flesh

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

For 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.

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

Or donít you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.