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 answering said to him, ‘Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.Matthew 19:5 · σάρκαand said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh?Matthew 19:6 · σὰρξso that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.’Matthew 24:22 · σάρξ·And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.Matthew 26:41 · σὰρξwatch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.’Mark 10:8 · σάρκα · σάρξ.and they shall be—the two—for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;Mark 13:20 · σάρξ·and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.Mark 14:38 · σὰρξWatch ye and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.’Luke 3:6 · σὰρξand all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’Luke 24:39 · σάρκαsee my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.’John 1:13 · σαρκὸςwho—not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but—of God were begotten.John 1:14 · σὰρξAnd the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.John 3:6 · σαρκὸς · σάρξthat which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.John 6:51 · σάρξ‘I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live—to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.’John 6:52 · σάρκαThe Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, ‘How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?’John 6:53 · σάρκαJesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;John 6:54 · σάρκαhe who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;John 6:55 · σάρξfor my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;John 6:56 · σάρκαhe who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.John 6:63 · σὰρξthe spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;John 8:15 · σάρκα‘Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,John 17:2 · σαρκός,according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that—all that Thou hast given to him—he may give to them life age-during;Acts 2:17 · σάρκαAnd it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out 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 · σάρξbecause of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet—my flesh also shall rest on hope,Acts 2:31 · σὰρξhaving foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.Romans 1:3 · σάρκα,concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,Romans 2:28 · σαρκὶFor he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;Romans 3:20 · σὰρξwherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.Romans 4:1 · σάρκα;What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?Romans 6:19 · σαρκὸςIn the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness—to sanctification,Romans 7:5 · σαρκί,for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;Romans 7:18 · σαρκίfor I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,Romans 7:25 · σαρκὶI thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.Romans 8:3 · σαρκός, · σαρκὸς · σαρκί,for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,Romans 8:4 · σάρκαthat the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.Romans 8:5 · σάρκα · σαρκὸςFor those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;Romans 8:6 · σαρκὸςfor the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace;Romans 8:7 · σαρκὸςbecause the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,Romans 8:8 · σαρκὶfor neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.Romans 8:9 · σαρκὶAnd ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ—this one is not His;Romans 8:12 · σαρκὶ · σάρκαSo, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;Romans 8:13 · σάρκαfor if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;Romans 9:3 · σάρκα·for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ—for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,Romans 9:5 · σάρκα,whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.Romans 9:8 · σαρκὸςthat is, the children of the flesh—these are not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;Romans 11:14 · σάρκαif by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,Romans 13:14 · σαρκὸςbut put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought—for desires.1 Corinthians 1:26 · σάρκα,for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;1 Corinthians 1:29 · σὰρξthat no flesh may glory before Him;1 Corinthians 5:5 · σαρκός,to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.1 Corinthians 6:16 · σάρκαhave ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? ‘for they shall be—saith He—the two for one flesh.’1 Corinthians 7:28 · σαρκὶBut and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.1 Corinthians 10:18 · σάρκα·See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of 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 of fishes, and another of birds;1 Corinthians 15:50 · σὰρξAnd this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;2 Corinthians 1:17 · σάρκαThis, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?2 Corinthians 4:11 · σαρκὶfor always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,2 Corinthians 5:16 · σάρκα· · σάρκαSo that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;2 Corinthians 7:1 · σαρκὸςHaving, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;2 Corinthians 7:5 · σὰρξfor also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without are fightings, within—fears;2 Corinthians 10:2 · σάρκαand I beseech you, that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;2 Corinthians 10:3 · σαρκὶ · σάρκαfor walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,2 Corinthians 11:18 · σάρκα,since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:2 Corinthians 12:7 · σαρκί,and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.Galatians 1:16 · σαρκὶto reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,Galatians 2:16 · σάρξ.having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.’Galatians 2:20 · σαρκί,with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;Galatians 3:3 · σαρκὶso thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?Galatians 4:13 · σαρκὸςand ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,Galatians 4:14 · σαρκίand my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me—as Christ Jesus;Galatians 4:23 · σάρκαbut he who is of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who is of the free-woman, through the promise;Galatians 4:29 · σάρκαbut as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;Galatians 5:13 · σαρκί,For ye—to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,Galatians 5:16 · σαρκὸςAnd I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;Galatians 5:17 · σὰρξ · σαρκός·for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will—these ye may not do;Galatians 5:19 · σαρκὸςAnd manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Galatians 5:24 · σάρκαand those who are Christ’s, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;Galatians 6:8 · σάρκα · σαρκὸςbecause he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;Galatians 6:12 · σαρκί,as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised—only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,Galatians 6:13 · σαρκὶfor neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.Ephesians 2:3 · σαρκὸς · σαρκὸςamong whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath—as also the others,Ephesians 2:11 · σαρκί, · σαρκὶWherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,Ephesians 2:14 · σαρκὶfor he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,Ephesians 5:29 · σάρκαfor no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord—the assembly,Ephesians 5:31 · σάρκα‘for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh;’Ephesians 6:5 · σάρκαThe servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;Ephesians 6:12 · σάρκαbecause we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;Philippians 1:22 · σαρκί,And if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;Philippians 1:24 · σαρκὶand to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account,Philippians 3:3 · σαρκὶfor we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,Philippians 3:4 · σαρκί. · σαρκί,though I also have cause of trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;Colossians 1:22 · σαρκὸςin the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,Colossians 1:24 · σαρκίI now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,Colossians 2:1 · σαρκί,For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,Colossians 2:5 · σαρκὶfor if even in the flesh I am absent—yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;Colossians 2:11 · σαρκός,in whom also ye were 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 the Christ,Colossians 2:13 · σαρκὸςAnd you—being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh—He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,Colossians 2:18 · σαρκὸςlet no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,Colossians 2:23 · σαρκός.¶which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body—not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.Colossians 3:22 · σάρκαThe servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;1 Timothy 3:16 · σαρκί,and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety—God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!Philemon 1:16 · σαρκὶno more as a servant, but above a servant—a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!Hebrews 2:14 · σαρκός,Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death—that is, the devil—Hebrews 5:7 · σαρκὸςwho in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death—with strong crying and tears—having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,Hebrews 9:10 · σαρκὸςonly in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances—till the time of reformation imposed upon them.Hebrews 9:13 · σαρκὸςfor if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,Hebrews 10:20 · σαρκὸςwhich way he did initiate for us—new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh—Hebrews 12:9 · σαρκὸςThen, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?James 5:3 · σάρκαςyour gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!1 Peter 1:24 · σὰρξbecause all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,1 Peter 3:18 · σαρκί,because also Christ once for sin did suffer—righteous for unrighteous—that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,1 Peter 3:21 · σαρκὸςalso to which an antitype doth now save us—baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,1 Peter 4:1 · σαρκὶ · σαρκὶChrist, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,1 Peter 4:2 · σαρκὶno more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;1 Peter 4:6 · σαρκί,for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.2 Peter 2:10 · σαρκὸςand chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,2 Peter 2:18 · σαρκὸςfor overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh—lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,1 John 2:16 · σαρκὸςbecause all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,1 John 4:2 · σαρκὶin this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,2 John 1:7 · σαρκί·because many leading astray did enter into the world, who are not confessing Jesus Christ coming in flesh; this one is he who is leading astray, and the antichrist.Jude 1:7 · σαρκὸςas Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before—an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.Jude 1:8 · σάρκαIn like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,Jude 1:23 · σαρκὸςand some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.Revelation 17:16 · σάρκαςand the ten horns that thou didst see upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire,Revelation 19:18 · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκας · σάρκαςthat ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiefs of thousands, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses, and of those sitting on them, and the flesh of all—freemen and servants—both small and great.’Revelation 19:21 · σαρκῶνand the rest were killed with the sword of him who is sitting on the horse, which sword is proceeding out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled out of their flesh.