Bible Verses About Flesh
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for flesh, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,923 votes, led by Romans 8:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Flesh
Romans 8:8376 votes
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:6367 votes
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Galatians 5:16348 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19-21324 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 10:13226 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Romans 8:13215 votes
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Romans 8:5208 votes
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:7174 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Colossians 3:1-25168 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Ephesians 6:12156 votes
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
1 Peter 5:8152 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Galatians 5:24148 votes
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Matthew 26:41147 votes
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Romans 6:16137 votes
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Galatians 5:17124 votes
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
John 1:14122 votes
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
1 Corinthians 6:18119 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 John 2:16116 votes
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Galatians 2:20104 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
John 3:699 votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 13:1499 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Colossians 3:592 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Romans 7:1889 votes
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Hebrews 13:487 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 2:2485 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What does the Bible say about flesh?
Readers most often cite Romans 8:8 on the subject of flesh. Across 7,923 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 8:6, Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:19-21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.