Quotes about Flesh
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- Romans 7:5
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
- Romans 7:18
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Romans 8:3
Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
- Romans 8:5
The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
- Romans 8:6
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Romans 8:7
Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
- Romans 8:8
You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
- Romans 8:9
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
- Romans 8:12
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.
- Romans 8:13
So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
- Romans 9:8
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- Romans 13:14