flesh

For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknes of this world, against spirituall wickednes in high places.

1611 marginal noteOr, wicked spirits.

1611 marginal noteOr, heauenly.

But if I liue in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shal chuse, I wote not.

Neuertheles, to abide in the flesh, is more needfull for you.

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and reioyce in Christ Iesus, and haue no confidence in the flesh.

Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that hee hath whereof hee might trust in the flesh, I more:

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy & vnblameable, and vnreprooueable in his sight,

Who now reioyce in my sufferings for you, and fill vp that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,

¶ For I would that ye knew what great conflict I haue for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as haue not seene my face in the flesh:

1611 marginal noteOr, feare or care.

For though I bee absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, ioying and beholding your order, and the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ.

In whom also ye are circumcised with the Circumcision made without handes, in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh, by the Circumcision of Christ: