Bible Cross References
in the flesh
Romans 8:8
Those who obey their human nature cannot please God.
Romans 8:9
But you do not live as your human nature tells you to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to---if, in fact, God's Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
John 3:6
A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16
What I say is this: let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature.
Galatians 5:17
For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have put to death their human nature with all its passions and desires.
Ephesians 2:3
Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.
Ephesians 2:11
You Gentiles by birth---called "the uncircumcised" by the Jews, who call themselves the circumcised (which refers to what men do to their bodies)---remember what you were in the past.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.
motions
Romans 1:26
Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.
which
Romans 3:20
For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.
Romans 4:15
The Law brings down God's anger; but where there is no law, there is no disobeying of the law.
Romans 5:20
Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.
1 Corinthians 15:56
Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
6
it is he who made us capable of serving the new covenant, which consists not of a written law but of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
7
The Law was carved in letters on stone tablets, and God's glory appeared when it was given. Even though the brightness on Moses' face was fading, it was so strong that the people of Israel could not keep their eyes fixed on him. If the Law, which brings death when it is in force, came with such glory,
8
how much greater is the glory that belongs to the activity of the Spirit!
9
The system which brings condemnation was glorious; how much more glorious is the activity which brings salvation!
Galatians 3:10
Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, "Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!"
James 2:9
But if you treat people according to their outward appearance, you are guilty of sin, and the Law condemns you as a lawbreaker.
James 2:10
Whoever breaks one commandment is guilty of breaking them all.
1 John 3:4
Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law.
did work
Romans 7:8-13
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But by means of that commandment sin found its chance to stir up all kinds of selfish desires in me. Apart from law, sin is a dead thing.
9
I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,
10
and I died. And the commandment which was meant to bring life, in my case brought death.
11
Sin found its chance, and by means of the commandment it deceived me and killed me.
12
So then, the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.
13
But does this mean that what is good caused my death? By no means! It was sin that did it; by using what is good, sin brought death to me, in order that its true nature as sin might be revealed. And so, by means of the commandment sin is shown to be even more terribly sinful.
Matthew 15:19
For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.
Galatians 5:19-21
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What human nature does is quite plain. It shows itself in immoral, filthy, and indecent actions;
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in worship of idols and witchcraft. People become enemies and they fight; they become jealous, angry, and ambitious. They separate into parties and groups;
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they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.
James 1:15
Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
members
Romans 7:23
But I see a different law at work in my body---a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.
Romans 6:13
Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.
Romans 6:19
(I use everyday language because of the weakness of your natural selves.) At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness for wicked purposes. In the same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness for holy purposes.
Colossians 3:5
You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).
James 4:1
Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.
bring
Romans 6:21
What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of ? The result of those things is death!