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Flesh (Pauline Usage)
Flesh (Greek sarx) is a central term in the Pauline Epistles. It can denote the human body, lineage, and human weakness, and above all the sinful human nature that opposes God and the Holy Spirit.
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- FleshBible
In the Bible, "flesh" refers to the human flesh and body and, more broadly, to finite and frail human existence. In the Pauline epistles it can also denote the human inclination toward sin that stands opposed to the Holy Spirit.
- Spirit and FleshBible
Spirit and flesh are a pair of terms the Bible uses to describe human beings as they stand before God. They may refer to the constitution of the human person (spirit, soul, and body), and in the Pauline epistles they can also denote the opposition between a life that follows the Holy Spirit and a life inclined toward sin.
- Works of the FleshBible
The works of the flesh are a catalog of sins that the apostle Paul lists in Galatians 5:19–21 in contrast to the fruit of the Spirit. The list includes sexual immorality, idolatry, strife, and drunkenness, among other items, and closes with "and such like." The New Korean Revised Version renders it as fifteen items.
- Resurrection of the BodyDoctrine & Theology
The resurrection of the body is the Christian doctrine that on the last day the bodies of the dead will be raised and reunited with their souls. It is one of the articles confessed in the Apostles' Creed.
- 2 Corinthians 12Bible
Second Corinthians 12 recounts Paul's experience of being caught up to the third heaven and his "thorn in the flesh," records his confession that when he is weak he is strong, and announces his planned third visit to the church at Corinth.
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