Topic
FLESH
FIGURATIVE
Passages on this topic · 16
- John 6:51
I 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
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
- John 6:53
Jesus 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
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
- John 6:56
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
- John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
- John 6:58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven — not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
- John 6:59
He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
- John 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
- John 6:61
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
- John 6:62
Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
- John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- Galatians 5:19
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
- Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
- Galatians 5:21
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).