Relating to human desires that come from the body, especially strong physical wants.
Key References
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
All Scripture References (10)
Romans (2)
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.
1 Corinthians (3)
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much for us to reap a material harvest from you?
2 Corinthians (3)
For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
Hebrews (1)
one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.
1 Peter (1)
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.