G4561–σάρξ–sarx

This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

σαρκὸς sarkos “[of the] flesh”

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

σὰρξ sarx “flesh”σαρκός· sarkos “flesh;”

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;

σαρκὸς sarkos “flesh”

Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.

σάρκα sarka “flesh”

He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.

σάρκα sarka “flesh”σαρκὸς sarkos “flesh”

All who desire to display their zeal for external observances try to compel you to receive circumcision, but their real object is simply to escape being persecuted for the Cross of Christ.

σαρκί, sarki “[the] flesh,”

For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.

σαρκὶ sarki “flesh”

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

σαρκὸς sarkos “flesh”σαρκὸς sarkos “flesh”

Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised--their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.

σαρκί, sarki “[the] flesh,”σαρκὶ sarki “[the] flesh”

by setting aside the Law with its commandments, expressed, as they were, in definite decrees. His design was to unite the two sections of humanity in Himself so as to form one new man,

σαρκὶ sarki “flesh”

For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;

σάρκα sarka “flesh”

because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.

σαρκός sarkos “flesh”

"For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."

σάρκα sarka “flesh”

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

σάρκα sarka “flesh”

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

σάρκα sarka “flesh”

But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell.

σαρκί, sarki “flesh,”

But for your sakes it is more important that I should still remain in the body.

σαρκὶ sarki “flesh”

For we are the true circumcision--we who render to God a spiritual worship and make our boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in outward ceremonies:

σαρκὶ sarki “[the] flesh”

although I myself might have some excuse for confidence in outward ceremonies. If any one else claims a right to trust in them, far more may I:

σαρκί. sarki “[the] flesh.”σαρκί, sarki “[the] flesh,”

He has now, in His human body, reconciled to God by His death, to bring you, holy and faultless and irreproachable, into His presence;

σαρκὸς sarkos “flesh”

Now I can find joy amid my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my own person whatever is lacking in Christ's afflictions on behalf of His Body, the Church.

σαρκί sarki “flesh”

For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,

σαρκί, sarki “[the] flesh,”

For although, as you say, I am absent from you in body, yet in spirit I am present with you and am delighted to witness your good discipline and the solid front presented by your faith in Christ.

σαρκὶ sarki “flesh”

In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by hand, when you threw off your sinful nature in true Christian circumcision;

σαρκός, sarkos “flesh,”

And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

σαρκὸς sarkos “flesh”