Bible Verses About Sins of the Flesh
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sins of the flesh, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 7,228 votes, led by Galatians 5:19-21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sins of the Flesh
Galatians 5:19-21430 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 John 2:15-17364 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Galatians 5:19253 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Romans 8:13233 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 8:7227 votes
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Ephesians 2:1-22225 votes
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
1 John 2:4-6173 votes
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
2 Peter 1:5-8171 votes
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Romans 13:13166 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 John 2:16163 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 5:24137 votes
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
John 3:6100 votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-595 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
James 4:493 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Colossians 3:590 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Ephesians 5:1884 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Galatians 5:1783 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.
Romans 8:281 votes
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Colossians 3:1-1081 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Galatians 5:1679 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Romans 8:578 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.
2 Peter 1:478 votes
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Colossians 2:1176 votes
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Romans 3:2373 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 8:673 votes
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
What does the Bible say about sins of the flesh?
Readers most often cite Galatians 5:19-21 on the subject of sins of the flesh. Across 7,228 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 2:15-17, Galatians 5:19, Romans 8:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.