Bible Verses About The Flesh
15 Bible verses about The Flesh to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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.
For 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.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
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, 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.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.