Examples of the Two Different Meanings of FleshEvery emphasized word translates the same Greek word. Just a few examples should suffice, but if you want still more, you will find them further down. Ones fallen nature John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who dont walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. Ephesians 2:3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 2 Peter 2:10 . . . those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. . . . Ones physical body John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. . . . Acts 2:31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasnt left in Hades, and his flesh didnt see decay. Ephesians 5:29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it . . . Philippians 1:21-24 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I dont know what I will choose. But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake. Colossians 2:5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit . . . Revelation 19:18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.
Mark 14:38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. Romans 8:4 . . . who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:6-9, 12-13 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to Gods law, neither indeed can it be. Those who are in the flesh cant please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesnt have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. . . . So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 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. Galatians 5:16-19 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you wont 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. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness . . . Colossians 2:18 . . . vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind 2 Peter 2:18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isnt the Fathers, but is the worlds. Jude 1:23 . . . hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. Ones physical body Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh 1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. 2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 7:5 . . . our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. . . . Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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. Galatians 4:13 but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. Colossians 1:21-24 You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds, yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him, if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News . . . Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodys sake, which is the assembly 1 Timothy 3:16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, . . . Hebrews 5: 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear Hebrews 10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh 1 Peter 4:1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin 1 John 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God (Emphasis mine.)
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