Bible Verses about “works of the flesh”

“envyings, 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.”

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

“Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,”

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

“Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.”

“For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.”

“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,”

“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”

“Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.”

“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”

“Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?”

“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”

“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”

“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

“Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.”

“For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.”

“being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,”

“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”

“Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;”

“For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.”

“covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.”

“For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,”

“who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”

“Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."”

“For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."”

“Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,”

“If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.”

“backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”

“who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.”

“without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;”

“Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.”

“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

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

“But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.”

“Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.”

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.”

“for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;”

“For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.”

“Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?”

“Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.”