σάρξ sárx

Meaning

flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by implication) human nature (with its frailties (physically or morally) and passions), or (specially), a human being (as such)

In the King James Version: carnal(-ly, + -ly minded), flesh(-ly)

Derivation: probably from the base of G4563 (σαρόω);

Where it is used

• Matthew 16:17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
• Matthew 19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
• Matthew 19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
• Matthew 24:22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
• Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
• Mark 10:8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
• Mark 13:20 If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.
• Mark 14:38 Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
• Luke 3:6 And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”
• Luke 24:39 Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
• John 1:13 children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
• John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 3:6 Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
• John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
• John 6:52 At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
• John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
• John 6:54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:55 For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
• John 6:56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
• John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
• John 17:2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• Acts 2:17 ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
• Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,
• Acts 2:30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
• Acts 2:31 Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
• Romans 1:3 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
• Romans 2:28 A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?
• Romans 6:19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
• Romans 7:5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• Romans 7:18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
• Romans 8:1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
• Romans 8:4 so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• Romans 8:5 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.
• Romans 8:6 The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
• Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• Romans 8:8 Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
• Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
• Romans 8:12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
• Romans 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.
• Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
• Romans 9:5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
• Romans 9:8 So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
• Romans 11:14 in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
• Romans 13:14 Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• 1 Corinthians 1:26 Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
• 1 Corinthians 1:29 so that no one may boast in His presence.
• 1 Corinthians 5:5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
• 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
• 1 Corinthians 7:28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
• 1 Corinthians 10:18 Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
• 1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
• 1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
• 2 Corinthians 1:17 When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also “No, no”?
• 2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
• 2 Corinthians 5:16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.