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)
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
G4561 — σάρξ
sarx · flesh · Greek
126 tagged verse occurrences
Matthew 16:17 · σὰρξJesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.Matthew 19:5 · σάρκαand said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join 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 has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”Matthew 24:22 · σάρξ·Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.Matthew 26:41 · σὰρξWatch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”Mark 10:8 · σάρκα · σάρξ.and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.Mark 13:20 · σάρξ·Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.Mark 14:38 · σὰρξWatch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”Luke 3:6 · σὰρξAll flesh will see God’s salvation.’”Luke 24:39 · σάρκαSee my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”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 · σὰρξThe Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.John 3:6 · σαρκὸς · σάρξThat which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.John 6:51 · σάρξI am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”John 6:52 · σάρκαThe Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”John 6:53 · σάρκαJesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.John 6:54 · σάρκαHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.John 6:55 · σάρξFor my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.John 6:56 · σάρκαHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.John 6:63 · σὰρξIt is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.John 8:15 · σάρκαYou judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.John 17:2 · σαρκός,even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.Acts 2:17 · σάρκα‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.Acts 2:26 · σάρξTherefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;Acts 2:31 · σὰρξhe foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.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, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.Romans 4:1 · σάρκα;What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?Romans 6:19 · σαρκὸςI speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.Romans 7:5 · σαρκί,For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.Romans 7:18 · σαρκίFor I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.Romans 7:25 · σαρκὶI thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.Romans 8:3 · σαρκός, · σαρκὸς · σαρκί,For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he 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 those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to 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 hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.Romans 8:8 · σαρκὶThose who are in the flesh can’t please God.Romans 8:9 · σαρκὶBut you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.Romans 8:12 · σαρκὶ · σάρκαSo then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.Romans 8:13 · σάρκαFor if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Romans 9:3 · σάρκα·For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,Romans 9:5 · σάρκα,of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.Romans 9:8 · σαρκὸςThat is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.Romans 11:14 · σάρκαif by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.Romans 13:14 · σαρκὸςBut put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.1 Corinthians 1:26 · σάρκα,For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;1 Corinthians 1:29 · σὰρξthat no flesh should boast before God.1 Corinthians 5:5 · σαρκός,are to deliver such a one to 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 don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will become one flesh.”1 Corinthians 7:28 · σαρκὶBut if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.1 Corinthians 10:18 · σάρκα·Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?1 Corinthians 15:39 · σὰρξ · σὰρξ · σὰρξ · σὰρξAll flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.1 Corinthians 15:50 · σὰρξNow I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.2 Corinthians 1:17 · σάρκαWhen I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”2 Corinthians 4:11 · σαρκὶFor we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 5:16 · σάρκα· · σάρκαTherefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. 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 had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.2 Corinthians 10:2 · σάρκαYes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.2 Corinthians 10:3 · σαρκὶ · σάρκαFor though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;2 Corinthians 11:18 · σάρκα,Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.2 Corinthians 12:7 · σαρκί,By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.Galatians 1:16 · σαρκὶto reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer 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 in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.Galatians 2:20 · σαρκί,I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.Galatians 3:3 · σαρκὶAre you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?Galatians 4:13 · σαρκὸςbut you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.Galatians 4:14 · σαρκίThat which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.Galatians 4:23 · σάρκαHowever, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.Galatians 4:29 · σάρκαBut as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.Galatians 5:13 · σαρκί,For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.Galatians 5:16 · σαρκὸςBut I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.Galatians 5:17 · σὰρξ · σαρκός·For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.Galatians 5:19 · σαρκὸςNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,Galatians 5:24 · σάρκαThose who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.Galatians 6:8 · σάρκα · σαρκὸςFor he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.Galatians 6:12 · σαρκί,As many as desire to look good 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 even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.Ephesians 2:3 · σαρκὸς · σαρκὸςamong whom we also all once lived in the lust 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, · σαρκὶTherefore remember that once you, 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 broke down the middle wall of partition,Ephesians 5:29 · σάρκαFor no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;Ephesians 5:31 · σάρκα“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”Ephesians 6:5 · σάρκαServants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;Ephesians 6:12 · σάρκαFor our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.Philippians 1:22 · σαρκί,But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.Philippians 1:24 · σαρκὶYet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.Philippians 3:3 · σαρκὶFor we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice 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 thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:Colossians 1:22 · σαρκὸςyet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless 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 assembly;Colossians 2:1 · σαρκί,For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those 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, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.Colossians 2:11 · σαρκός,in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;Colossians 2:13 · σαρκὸςYou were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,Colossians 2:18 · σαρκὸςLet no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,Colossians 2:23 · σαρκός.¶Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.Colossians 3:22 · σάρκαServants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.1 Timothy 3:16 · σαρκί,Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.Philemon 1:16 · σαρκὶno longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.Hebrews 2:14 · σαρκός,Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,Hebrews 5:7 · σαρκὸςHe, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who 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 various washings) fleshly 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 those who have been defiled, sanctify to 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 paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?James 5:3 · σάρκαςYour gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.1 Peter 1:24 · σὰρξFor, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;1 Peter 3:18 · σαρκί,Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;1 Peter 3:21 · σαρκὸςThis is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,1 Peter 4:1 · σαρκὶ · σαρκὶForasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;1 Peter 4:2 · σαρκὶthat you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.1 Peter 4:6 · σαρκί,For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.2 Peter 2:10 · σαρκὸςbut chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;2 Peter 2:18 · σαρκὸςFor, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;1 John 2:16 · σαρκὸςFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.1 John 4:2 · σαρκὶBy this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,2 John 1:7 · σαρκί·For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.Jude 1:7 · σαρκὸςEven as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.Jude 1:8 · σάρκαYet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.Jude 1:23 · σαρκὸςand some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.Revelation 17:16 · σάρκαςThe ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.Revelation 19:18 · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκαςthat you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.”Revelation 19:21 · σαρκῶνThe rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.