Bible Verses about “the flesh”
The Bible contains 11 verses about 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,”
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”
“So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
“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.”