• <word id=″G4561″ type=″word″ filterby=″″>σάρξ, G4561</word>
• <word id=″G4559″ type=″word″ filterby=″″>σαρκικός, G4559</word>
• <word id=″G4560″ type=″word″ filterby=″″>σάρκινος, G4560</word>

Meaning of σάρξ

• Body

  • Flesh and bones (Lk 24:39)
  • Flesh of various creatures (1 Cor 15:39)
  • Bodily ailment (Gal 4:13)
  • Circumcision in the flesh (Rom 2:28; Eph 2:11)
  • Absent in body (Col 2:5)
  • Regulations for the body (Heb 9:10)
  • Dirt from the body (1 Pet 3:21)

• Man’s being (2 Cor 7:5; 12:7; Col 1:24)

  • Mentioned in conjunction with man’s spirit (2 Cor 7:1)
  • Become one flesh (1 Cor 6:16; Eph 5:31)

• Human existence; humanity

  • According to the flesh

    • Earthly and human relationship (Rom 9:3; Eph 6:5; Col 3:22; Phm 16; Heb 12:9)
    • From a human perspective (Rom 4:1; 1 Cor 1:26)
    • In terms of physical descent (Rom 1:3; 9:5, 8; Jn 1:13)
    • Earthly national identity (1 Cor 10:18)

  • All flesh (Mt 24:22; Lk 3:6; Jn 17:2; 1 Pet 1:24)

  • My flesh= kinsmen (Rom 11:14) 

  • In the flesh (2 Cor 10:3; Gal 2:19, 20)

    • As opposed to “according to the flesh” (2 Cor 10:2)
    • “Judged according to men in the flesh” (1 Pet 4:6)
  • Of this world (1 Cor 7:28)

• Man in his limitation

  • Flesh and blood” (Mt 16:17; Gal 1:16): limited in knowing the things of God
  • Flesh as opposed to spirit (Mt 26:41; Mk 14:38; Rom 6:19): weakness of the flesh
  • The corruptible and the mortal
    • Mortal body (2 Cor 4:11)
    • The corruptible in contrast to the incorruptible kingdom of God (1 Cor 15:50): “flesh and blood”
  • All flesh (Rom 3:20; 1 Cor 1:29; Gal 5:21)
    • Cannot be justified before God
  • That which is born of the flesh is flesh (Jn 3:6)
  • The flesh profits nothing (Jn 6:63)

• Man’s judgments and decisions

  • According to the flesh” as opposed to according to promise (Gal 4:23, 29)
  • Will of the flesh (Jn 1:13)
  • Man’s ways in a negative sense (1 Cor 3:3, 4; 1Cor 1:24-26; 2 Cor 1:12, 17; 5:16; 10:2, 4); also “fleshly” = carnal
    • “Walk according to the flesh” (2 Cor 10:2)
    • “Judge according to the flesh” (Jn 8:15)
  • Man’s opinion (Gal 1:16): “flesh and blood”
  • Good showing in the flesh (Gal 6:12); outward in the flesh (Rom 2:28); made perfect by the flesh (Gal 3:3)
  • Confidence in the flesh” (Phil 3:3)
    • “Boast according to the flesh” (2 Cor 11:18) as opposed to “according to the Lord” (2 Cor 11:17)
    • Boasting in appearance and not in heart (2 Cor 5:12)
    • Puffed up in his fleshly mind” (Col 2:18)
  • Walk according to the flesh (Rom 8:4, 12f)
    • As opposed to “according to spirit” (Rom 8:4) and “by the Spirit” (Rom 8:13, 14)
    • “Sets their minds on the things of the flesh” (Rom 8:5)

• Subject of sin

  • Serving the law of sin (Rom 7:25)
  • In the flesh
    • Sinful passions at work in the flesh (Rom 7:5)
    • Unable to please God (Rom 8:8, 9)
    • Nothing good dwells (Rom 7:18)
  • With sinful passions (Rom 13:14; Gal 5:13, 16, 19, 24; Eph 2:3; 1 Pet 2:11; 2 Pet 2:10, 18; 1 Jn 2:16)
    • “Works of the flesh” (Gal 5:19)
    • “Indulgence of the flesh” (Col 2:23)
    • “Putting off the body of the flesh” (Col 2:11)
    • “Uncircumcision of your flesh” (Col 2:13)
    • Those who are in Christ have crucified the flesh and its desires (Gal 5:24)
  • He who sows to his flesh (Gal 6:8)
  • The flesh lusts against the spirit (Gal 5:17)
  • Walk according to the flesh (Rom 8:4, 12f)
    • As opposed to “according to spirit” (Rom 8:4) and “by the Spirit” (Rom 8:13, 14)
    • “Sets their minds on the things of the flesh” (Rom 8:5)
    • Hostile to God (Rom 8:7)
    • Result is death (Rom 8:13)
  • Garment stained by the flesh (Jude 1:23)

God in the flesh

• The Word became flesh (Jn 1:14)
• God manifested in the flesh (1 Tim 3:16)
• Sharing in the same flesh and blood as God’s children (Heb 2:14)
• “In the days of His flesh” (Heb 5:7)
• Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (1 Jn 4:2; 2 Jn 1:7)
• Jesus’ resurrected body (Lk 24:39)

Redemption through Jesus’ flesh

• Jesus’ flesh, the bread of life (Jn 6:51-58)
• Jesus’ flesh did not see corruption (Acts 2:31)
• Condemned sin in the flesh (Rom 8:3)
• Reconciliation in “the body of His flesh” (Col 1:21-22)
• “Abolished in His flesh the enmity” (Eph 2:14-15)
• Entering the Holiest by the veil, i.e. Jesus’ flesh (Heb 10:20)
• “Put to death in the flesh” (1 Pet 3:18)
• “Christ suffered for us in the flesh” (1 Pet 4:1)
• See also “<topic id=“936” startswith=“What is accomplished” nth=“1”>What is accomplished through the body of Christ</topic>.”

Verbs with σάρξ flesh as Subject

• Be saved, σώζω

  • Mt 24:22 – And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
  • Mk 13:20 – And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

• Justify, δικαιόω

  • Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
  • Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

• Be able, δύναμαι

  • Rom 8:8 – Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • 1 Cor 15:50 – I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

• Reveal, ἀποκαλύπτω

  • Mt 16:17 – And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

• See, ὁράω

  • Lk 3:6 – and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

• Be, exist, εἰμί

  • Jn 6:55 – For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

• Benefit, ὠφελέω

  • Jn 6:63 – It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

• Dwell, κατασκηνόω

  • Acts 2:26 – therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.

• Know, εἴδω

  • Acts 2:31 – he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

• Think, φρονέω

  • Rom 8:5 – 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 set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

• Boast, καυχάομαι

  • 1 Cor 1:29 – so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

• Have, ἔχω

  • 2 Cor 7:5 – For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn–fighting without and fear within.

• Desire, ἐπιθυμέω

  • Gal 5:17 – For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Verbs with “flesh” as Object

• Eat, φάγω

  • Jn 6:53 – So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
  • Jas 5:3 – Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
  • Rev 17:16 – And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,
  • Rev 19:18 – to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."

• Eat, τρώγω

  • Jn 6:54 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
  • Jn 6:56 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

• Have, ἔχω

  • Lk 24:39 – See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

• Give, δίδωμι

  • Jn 6:52 – The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

• Make envious, παραζηλόω

  • Rom 11:14 – in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

• Consult with, προσανατίθημι 

  • Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;

• Crucify, σταυρόω

  • Gal 5:24 – And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

• Hate, μισέω

  • Eph 5:29 – For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

• Share in, κοινωνέω

  • Heb 2:14 – Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

• Pollute, μιαίνω

  • Jude 1:8 – Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

Adjectives Modifying σάρξ flesh

• All, πᾶς

  • Mt 24:22 – And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
  • Mk 13:20 – And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
  • Lk 3:6 – and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"
  • Jn 17:2 – since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
  • Acts 2:17 – "'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
  • Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
  • 1 Cor 1:29 – so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
  • 1 Cor 15:39 – For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
  • Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 – for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

• One, εἷς

  • Mt 19:5 – and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh'?
  • Mt 19:6 – So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
  • Mk 10:8 – and they shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
  • 1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
  • Eph 5:31 – "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

• Other, ἕτερος

  • Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

• Mortal, θνητός

  • 2 Cor 4:11 – For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

• Your, ὑμέτερος

  • Gal 6:13 – For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

“Flesh” is…

• Weak, ἀσθενής

  • Mt 26:41 – Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Mk 14:38 – Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

• Food, βρῶσις

  • Jn 6:55 – For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

… of “flesh”

• Desire, ἐπιθυμία

  • Gal 5:16 – But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  • Eph 2:3 – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 – For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
  • 1 Jn 2:16 – For all that is in the world–the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions–is not from the Father but is from the world.

• Will, θέλημα

  • Jn 1:13 – who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • Eph 2:3 – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

• Weakness, ἀσθένεια

  • Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
  • Gal 4:13 – You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,

• Mind, φρόνημα

  • Rom 8:6 – To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
  • Rom 8:7 – For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

• Body, σῶμα

  • Col 1:22 – he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
  • Col 2:11 – In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

• Children, τέκνον

  • Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

• Provision, πρόνοια

  • Rom 13:14 – But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

• Destruction, ὄλεθρος

  • 1 Cor 5:5 – you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

• Contamination, μολυσμός

  • 2 Cor 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

• Work, ἔργον

  • Gal 5:19 – Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

• Uncircumcision, ἀκροβυστία

  • Col 2:13 – And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

• Mind, νοῦς

  • Col 2:18 – Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

• Indulgence, πλησμονή

  • Col 2:23 – These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

• Day, ἡμέρα

  • Heb 5:7 – In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

• Regulation, δικαίωμα

  • Heb 9:10 – but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

• Cleanness, καθαρότης

  • Heb 9:13 – For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,

• Likeness, ὁμοίωμα

  • Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

• Father, πατήρ

  • Heb 12:9 – Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

• Removal, ἀπόθεσις

  • 1 Pet 3:21 – Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

“Flesh” of …

• Jesus

  • Jn 6:51 – I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
  • Jn 6:52 – The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
  • Jn 6:53 – So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
  • Jn 6:54 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
  • Jn 6:55 – For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
  • Jn 6:56 – Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
  • Acts 2:26 – therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.
  • Acts 2:31 – he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
  • Eph 2:14 – For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
  • Col 1:22 – he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
  • Heb 5:7 – In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
  • Heb 10:20 – by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

• Believers

  • Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
  • 2 Cor 4:11 – For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
  • Eph 2:3 – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
  • Col 2:13 – And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
  • Heb 12:9 – Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

• Paul

  • Rom 11:14 – in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
  • 2 Cor 7:5 – For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn–fighting without and fear within.
  • Gal 4:14 – and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

• Me / us

  • Acts 2:26 – therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.
  • 2 Cor 7:5 – For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn–fighting without and fear within.
  • Heb 12:9 – Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

• Himself

  • Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Eph 5:29 – For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

• Sin

  • Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

• Humans, animals, birds, fish

  • 1 Cor 15:39 – For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

• The rich

  • Jas 5:3 – Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

• The great prostitute

  • Rev 17:16 – And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,

• Kings, captains, mighty men, horses, riders, all, free, slave, small, great

  • Rev 19:18 – to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."

• Those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image

  • Rev 19:21 – And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

… and “flesh”

• Blood

  • Eph 6:12 – For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
  • Heb 2:14 – Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

“Flesh” and …

• Blood

  • Mt 16:17 – And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
  • 1 Cor 15:50 – I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
  • Gal 1:16 – was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;

• Mind, διάνοια

  • Eph 2:3 – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
• Bone
  • Lk 24:39 – See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

• Spirit

  • 2 Cor 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

“Flesh” juxtaposed with spirit

• Flesh in contrast to spirit

  • Mt 26:41 – Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Mk 14:38 – Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Lk 24:39 – See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."
  • Jn 3:6 – That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Jn 6:63 – It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
  • Rom 2:28 – For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
  • Rom 2:29 – But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
  • Rom 7:14 – For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
  • Rom 8:4 – in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:5 – 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 set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:6 – To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
  • Rom 8:9 – You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
  • Rom 8:13 – For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • 1 Cor 3:1 – But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 5:5 – you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
  • Gal 3:3 – Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
  • Gal 4:29 – But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Gal 5:16 – But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:17 – For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
  • Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Phil 3:3 – For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh–
  • Col 2:5 – For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
  • Heb 12:9 – Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
  • 1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

• Flesh in conjunction with spirit

  • 2 Cor 7:1 – Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

• Other

  • Acts 2:17 – "'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
  • Rom 1:3 – concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
  • Rom 1:4 – and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
  • 2 Cor 3:3 – And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

“Flesh” juxtaposed with promise

• Rom 9:8 – This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
• Gal 4:23 – But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

Prepositions with “flesh”

• ἐν in, among, with, during

  • Rom 2:28 – For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
  • Rom 7:5 – For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
  • Rom 7:18 – For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
  • Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
  • Rom 8:8 – Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Rom 8:9 – You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
  • 2 Cor 4:11 – For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
  • 2 Cor 10:3 – For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
  • Gal 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Gal 4:14 – and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 6:12 – It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
  • Gal 6:13 – For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
  • Eph 2:11 – Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands–
  • Eph 2:14 – For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
  • Phil 1:22 – If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.
  • Phil 3:3 – For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh–
  • Phil 3:4 – though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
  • Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
  • Col 2:1 – For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,
  • 1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
  • Phm 1:16 – no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother–especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
  • 1 Pet 4:2 – so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
  • 1 Jn 4:2 – By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
  • 2 Jn 1:7 – For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.

• κατά against, according to

  • Jn 8:15 – You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
  • Rom 1:3 – concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
  • Rom 4:1 – What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
  • Rom 8:4 – in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:5 – 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 set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:12 – So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
  • Rom 8:13 – For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • Rom 9:3 – For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
  • Rom 9:5 – To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 1:26 – For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
  • 1 Cor 10:18 – Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
  • 2 Cor 1:17 – Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?
  • 2 Cor 5:16 – From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
  • 2 Cor 10:2 – I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 10:3 – For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 11:18 – Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
  • Gal 4:23 – But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
  • Gal 4:29 – But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Gal 5:17 – For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
  • Eph 6:5 – Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
  • Col 3:22 – Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

• εἰς to, toward, into, for

  • Mt 19:5 – and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh'?
  • Mk 10:8 – and they shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
  • 1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."
  • Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Eph 5:31 – "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

• ἐκ of, out of, from

  • Jn 3:6 – That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  • Gal 6:8 – For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Rev 19:21 – And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

• ὀπίσω behind

  • 2 Pet 2:10 – and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
  • Jude 1:7 – just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

• διά through, for the sake of

  • Rom 8:3 – For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

• ἐπί on, across, over

  • Acts 2:17 – "'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

• πρός to, on, with

  • Eph 6:12 – For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

• ἀπό from

  • Jude 1:23 – save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

With respect to the “flesh”; by means of the “flesh”

• 1 Cor 7:28 – But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
• 2 Cor 12:7 – So to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.
• Gal 3:3 – Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
• Gal 5:13 – For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
• Col 2:5 – For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
• 1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
• 1 Pet 4:1 – Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
• 1 Pet 4:6 – For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.

Adjective: “Fleshly,” σαρκικός

• Rom 15:27 – They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
• 1 Cor 3:3 – for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
• 1 Cor 9:11 – If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
• 2 Cor 1:12 – For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
• 2 Cor 10:4 – For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
• 1 Pet 2:11 – Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

Adjective: “Fleshly,” σάρκινος

• Rom 7:14 – For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
• 1 Cor 3:1 – But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
• 2 Cor 3:3 – And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
• Heb 7:16 – who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.

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