σάρξ, σαρκός, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for בָּשָׂר ;] flesh; 1. as in cl. generally, (a) prop., of the soft substance of the animal body: 1Co.15:39, 2Co.12:7, Gal.6:13, al.; σ. καὶ αἷμα, 1Co.5:50; σ. καὶ ὀστέα, Luk.24:39; pl., of the flesh of many or parts of the flesh of one (cl.), Rev.17:16 19:18; φαγεῖν, Re, ll. with (cf. κατεσθίειν, 4Ki.9:36, al., and βιβρώσκειν, frequently in l.); metaphorically, Jas.5:3; mystically, φ. (τρώγειν) τὴν σ. τοῦ υἱοῦ τ. ἀνθρώπου, Jhn.6:52-56; (b) Of the whole substance of the body, = σῶμα: Act.2:26 (LXX), 31, 2Co.12:7, Gal.4:14, Eph.5:29; μία σ., Mrk.10:8; εἰς σ. μίαν (Gen.2:24), Mat.19:5, Mrk.10:8, 1Co.6:16, Eph.5:31; hence, of the material as opposite to the immaterial part of man (cf. Lft., Notes, 88): opposite to πνεῦμα, 1Co.5:5, 2Co.7:1, Col.2:5, 1Pe.3:18, 4:6; to ψύχη, Act.2:31, Rec.; of the present life, ἐν (τῇ) σ., Rom.7:5, Gal.2:20, Php.1:22, 24 1Pe.4:2; of Christ's life on earth, αἱ ἡμέραι τ. σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ, Heb.5:7; of things pertaining to the body, ἐν (τῇ) σ., Gal.6:12, 13 Php.3:3, 4. 2. As in Heb. idiom, (a) of a living creature: πᾶσα σ. (Heb. כָּל־בָּשָׂר; cf. Bl., §47, 9), Mat.24:22, Mrk.13:20, 1Pe.1:24; esp. of man and his mortality (Psa.55 (56):5, Sir.28:5, al.), Jhn.1:14; πᾶσα σ. (see supr.), Luk.3:6, Jhn.17:2, Act.2:17, ἐν σ., 1Jo.4:2, 1Ti.3:16; (b) of natural origin and relationship (Gen.2:24, Isa.58:7, al.): τέκνα τῆς σ., Rom.9:8; κατὰ σάρκα, ib. 3, 5, 1Co.10:18, Gal.4:23, 29; ἡ σ. μου, Rom.11:14 (cf. Jdg.9:2, 2Ki.5:1, al.). 3. Of the physical nature as subject to sensation and desire (Plut.), (a) without any ethical disparagement: Rom.7:18 13:14; opposite to πνεῦμα, Mat.26:41, Mrk.14:38; τ. θέλημα τῆς σ., Jhn.1:13; ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σ., 1Jn.2:16; pl., 2Pe.2:18; παθεῖν σαρκί, 1Pe.4:1; (b) in ethical sense, esp. in Pauline Epp., of the flesh as the seat and vehicle of sinful desires: opposite to νοῦς, Rom.7:25; to πνεῦμα, Rom.8:4-9, 12, 13, Gal.5:16, 17 19 6:8 (cf. DB, ii, 14f.; iv, 165f.; Cremer, 844ff.). (AS)
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G4561 — σάρξ
sarx · flesh · Greek
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Matthew 16:17 · σὰρξAnd Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.Matthew 19:5 · σάρκαand said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?Matthew 19:6 · σὰρξSo that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.Matthew 24:22 · σάρξ·And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.Matthew 26:41 · σὰρξWatch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.Mark 10:8 · σάρκα · σάρξ.and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.Mark 13:20 · σάρξ·And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.Mark 14:38 · σὰρξWatch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.Luke 3:6 · σὰρξAnd all flesh shall see the salvation of God.Luke 24:39 · σάρκαSee my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having.John 1:13 · σαρκὸςwho were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.John 1:14 · σὰρξAnd the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.John 3:6 · σαρκὸς · σάρξThat which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.John 6:51 · σάρξI am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.John 6:52 · σάρκαThe Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?John 6:53 · σάρκαJesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.John 6:54 · σάρκαHe that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.John 6:55 · σάρξFor my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.John 6:56 · σάρκαHe that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.John 6:63 · σὰρξIt is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.John 8:15 · σάρκαYe judge after the flesh; I judge no man.John 17:2 · σαρκός,even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.Acts 2:17 · σάρκαAnd it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams:Acts 2:26 · σάρξTherefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; Moreover my flesh also shall dwell in hope:Acts 2:31 · σὰρξhe foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.Romans 1:3 · σάρκα,concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,Romans 2:28 · σαρκὶFor he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:Romans 3:20 · σὰρξbecause by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.Romans 4:1 · σάρκα;What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh?Romans 6:19 · σαρκὸςI speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.Romans 7:5 · σαρκί,For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.Romans 7:18 · σαρκίFor I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.Romans 7:25 · σαρκὶI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.Romans 8:3 · σαρκός, · σαρκὸς · σαρκί,For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:Romans 8:4 · σάρκαthat the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Romans 8:5 · σάρκα · σαρκὸςFor they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.Romans 8:6 · σαρκὸςFor the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:Romans 8:7 · σαρκὸςbecause the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:Romans 8:8 · σαρκὶand they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Romans 8:9 · σαρκὶBut ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.Romans 8:12 · σαρκὶ · σάρκαSo then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:Romans 8:13 · σάρκαfor if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.Romans 9:3 · σάρκα·For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:Romans 9:5 · σάρκα,whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.Romans 9:8 · σαρκὸςThat is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.Romans 11:14 · σάρκαif by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.Romans 13:14 · σαρκὸςBut put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.1 Corinthians 1:26 · σάρκα,For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:1 Corinthians 1:29 · σὰρξthat no flesh should glory before God.1 Corinthians 5:5 · σαρκός,to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.1 Corinthians 6:16 · σάρκαOr know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.1 Corinthians 7:28 · σαρκὶBut shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.1 Corinthians 10:18 · σάρκα·Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?1 Corinthians 15:39 · σὰρξ · σὰρξ · σὰρξ · σὰρξAll flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.1 Corinthians 15:50 · σὰρξNow this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.2 Corinthians 1:17 · σάρκαWhen I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?2 Corinthians 4:11 · σαρκὶFor we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 5:16 · σάρκα· · σάρκαWherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.2 Corinthians 7:1 · σαρκὸςHaving therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.2 Corinthians 7:5 · σὰρξFor even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.2 Corinthians 10:2 · σάρκαyea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.2 Corinthians 10:3 · σαρκὶ · σάρκαFor though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh2 Corinthians 11:18 · σάρκα,Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.2 Corinthians 12:7 · σαρκί,And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.Galatians 1:16 · σαρκὶto reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:Galatians 2:16 · σάρξ.yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.Galatians 2:20 · σαρκί,I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.Galatians 3:3 · σαρκὶAre ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?Galatians 4:13 · σαρκὸςbut ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:Galatians 4:14 · σαρκίand that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.Galatians 4:23 · σάρκαHowbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.Galatians 4:29 · σάρκαBut as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.Galatians 5:13 · σαρκί,For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.Galatians 5:16 · σαρκὸςBut I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.Galatians 5:17 · σὰρξ · σαρκός·For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.Galatians 5:19 · σαρκὸςNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Galatians 5:24 · σάρκαAnd they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.Galatians 6:8 · σάρκα · σαρκὸςFor he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.Galatians 6:12 · σαρκί,As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.Galatians 6:13 · σαρκὶFor not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.Ephesians 2:3 · σαρκὸς · σαρκὸςamong whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—Ephesians 2:11 · σαρκί, · σαρκὶWherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;Ephesians 2:14 · σαρκὶFor he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,Ephesians 5:29 · σάρκαfor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;Ephesians 5:31 · σάρκαFor this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.Ephesians 6:5 · σάρκαServants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;Ephesians 6:12 · σάρκαFor our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.Philippians 1:22 · σαρκί,But if to live in the flesh,—if this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not.Philippians 1:24 · σαρκὶyet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake.Philippians 3:3 · σαρκὶfor we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:Philippians 3:4 · σαρκί. · σαρκί,though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:Colossians 1:22 · σαρκὸςyet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:Colossians 1:24 · σαρκίNow I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;Colossians 2:1 · σαρκί,For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;Colossians 2:5 · σαρκὶFor though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.Colossians 2:11 · σαρκός,in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;Colossians 2:13 · σαρκὸςAnd you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;Colossians 2:18 · σαρκὸςLet no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,Colossians 2:23 · σαρκός.¶Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.Colossians 3:22 · σάρκαServants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:1 Timothy 3:16 · σαρκί,And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.Philemon 1:16 · σαρκὶno longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord.Hebrews 2:14 · σαρκός,Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;Hebrews 5:7 · σαρκὸςWho in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,Hebrews 9:10 · σαρκὸςbeing only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.Hebrews 9:13 · σαρκὸςFor if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:Hebrews 10:20 · σαρκὸςby the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;Hebrews 12:9 · σαρκὸςFurthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?James 5:3 · σάρκαςYour gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.1 Peter 1:24 · σὰρξFor, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:1 Peter 3:18 · σαρκί,Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;1 Peter 3:21 · σαρκὸςwhich also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;1 Peter 4:1 · σαρκὶ · σαρκὶForasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;1 Peter 4:2 · σαρκὶthat ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.1 Peter 4:6 · σαρκί,For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.2 Peter 2:10 · σαρκὸςbut chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:2 Peter 2:18 · σαρκὸςFor, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;1 John 2:16 · σαρκὸςFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.1 John 4:2 · σαρκὶHereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:2 John 1:7 · σαρκί·For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.Jude 1:7 · σαρκὸςEven as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.Jude 1:8 · σάρκαYet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.Jude 1:23 · σαρκὸςand some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.Revelation 17:16 · σάρκαςAnd the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.Revelation 19:18 · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκαςthat ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.Revelation 19:21 · σαρκῶνand the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, even the sword which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.