Bible Verses about “sins of the flesh”
The Bible contains 39 verses about sins of the flesh across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
“For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:”
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
“Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
“He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”
“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”
“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”
“Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“¶ And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;”
“And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”
“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
“For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
“In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:”
“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone];”
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;”
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:”
“¶ And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;”
“Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
“¶ For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];”
“¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,”
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”
“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
“Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;”
“For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.”
“And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:”
“And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:”
“¶ Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;”
“That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:”
“And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.”
“That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”