Bible Verses about โsins of the fleshโ
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.
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
โDon't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.โ
โFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.โ
โfor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,โ
โThe world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.โ
โLet us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.โ
โnot of works, that no one would boast.โ
โFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.โ
โOne who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.โ
โhe who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.โ
โBut whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:โ
โbecause the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.โ
โThose who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.โ
โYes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;โ
โand in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.โ
โand in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;โ
โFor if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.โ
โFor if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.โ
โin whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.โ
โin whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;โ
โbeing built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;โ
โSo then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,โ
โin which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;โ
โYou were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,โ
โamong whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.โ
โFor he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,โ
โBut God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,โ
โeven when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),โ
โBut now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.โ
โhaving abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;โ
โFor through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.โ
โand raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,โ
โand might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby.โ
โTherefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);โ
โthat you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.โ
โHe came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.โ
โthat in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;โ
