9 Bible Verses about Flesh As The Sinful Nature
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Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.
Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.
among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.
No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.
These men who are keen upon you getting circumcised are just men who want to make a grand display in the flesh ??it is simply to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh!
For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.
For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit. The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace. For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).read more.
Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God. But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.
he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.
For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;
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- Alcohol
- Ambition, negative aspects of
- Avoiding Sin
- Emotions
- Evil Desires
- Evil Passions
- Faults
- Fruits Of Sin
- Living Not For The Material
- Lust
- Masturbation
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