Bible Verses about “works of the flesh”

“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,”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”

“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”

“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:”

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”

“Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”

“There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?”

“¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?”

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.”

“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.”

“¶ Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.”

“¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

“Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,”

“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”

“And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”

“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.”

“‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›”

“‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›”

“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:”

“For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”

“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

“Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”

“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

“Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:”

“¶ Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”

“But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”

“‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›”

“But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.”

“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”

“For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;”

“For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:”

“Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”

“Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.”