Flesh, Summary: “Flesh,” in the
ethical sense, is the whole natural or unregenerate man, spirit, soul,
and body, as centered upon self, prone to sin, and opposed to God
Romans 7:18. The regenerate man is not “in the sphere of the
flesh,” but in the sphere of the Spirit Romans 8:9 but the
flesh is still in him, and he may, according to his choice, “walk
after the flesh” or “in the Spirit” ; 1 Corinthians
3:1-4; Galatians 5:16,17. In the first case he is a “carnal,”
in the second a “spiritual,” Christian. Victory over
the flesh will be the habitual experience of the believer who walks
in the Spirit ; Romans 8:2,4; Galatians 5:16,17.
Jude 23
And others
with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment
spotted by the
.
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth
: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which
is good I find not.
Romans 8:9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ,
he is none of his.
1 Corinthians 3:1-4
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal, even as unto
.
2 I have fed you with
, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it,
neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet
: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and
, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are
ye not
?
Galatians 5:16-17
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the
.
17 For the
lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are
the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye
would.
Romans 8:2, 4
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of
.
4 That the
of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the
, but after the Spirit.
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