flesh

¶ What shall we say then, that Abraham our father, as perteining to the flesh, hath found?

I speake after the maner of men, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue yeelded your members seruants to vncleannesse and to iniquitie, vnto iniquitie: euen so now yeelde your members seruants to righteousnesse, vnto holinesse.

For when wee were in the flesh, the motions of sinnes which were by the law, did worke in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.

1611 marginal noteGr. passions

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 performe that which is good, I find not.

I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I my self serue the Law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sinne.

¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Iesus, who walke not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

For what the law could not doe, in that it was weake through the flesh, God sending his owne Sonne, in the likenesse of sinnefull flesh, and for sinne condemned sinne in the flesh:

1611 marginal noteOr, by a sacrifice for sin.

That the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in vs, who walke not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

For they that are after the flesh, doe minde the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.

So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please God.