Noun sarx (flesh) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more litteral meaning)


Matthew

16: 17And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh (sarx) and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.
19: 5and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh (sarx)'?
19: 6So they are no longer two, but one flesh (sarx). Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
24: 22And if those days had not been cut short, all flesh (sarx) would not be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
26: 41Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh (sarx) is weak."

Mark

10: 8and the two shall become one flesh (sarx).' So they are no longer two, but one flesh (sarx).
13: 20And if the Lord had not cut short those days, all flesh (sarx) would not be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut short those days.
14: 38Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh (sarx) is weak."

Luke

3: 6and all flesh (sarx) shall see the salvation of God.'"
24: 39Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh (sarx) and bones as you see that I have."

John

1: 13who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh (sarx) or of the will of man, but of God.
1: 14And the Word became flesh (sarx) and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
3: 6What is born of the flesh (sarx) is flesh (sarx), and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
6: 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh (sarx)."
6: 52The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh (sarx) to eat?"
6: 53So Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh (sarx) of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
6: 54Those who eat my flesh (sarx) and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day;
6: 55for my flesh (sarx) is true food and my blood is true drink.
6: 56Those who eat my flesh (sarx) and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.
6: 63It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh (sarx) is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
8: 15You judge according to flesh (sarx); I judge no one.
17: 2since you have given him authority over all flesh (sarx), to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Acts

2: 17'In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh (sarx), and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.
2: 26therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh (sarx) will live in hope.
2: 31Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying, 'He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh (sarx) experience corruption.'

1 John

2: 16for all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh (sarx), the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches - comes not from the Father but from the world.
4: 2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (sarx) is from God,

2 John

1: 7Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (sarx); any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

Philippians

1: 22If I am to live in the flesh (sarx), that means fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which I prefer.
1: 24but to remain in the flesh (sarx) is more necessary for you.
3: 3For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh (sarx)
3: 4even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh (sarx). If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh (sarx), I have more:

1 Corinthians

1: 26Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise according to the flesh (sarx), not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
1: 29so that all flesh (sarx) might not boast in the presence of God.
5: 5you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh (sarx), so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6: 16Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, "The two shall be one flesh (sarx)."
7: 28But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a virgin marries, she does not sin. Yet those who marry will experience distress in their flesh (sarx), and I would spare you that.
10: 18Consider the people of Israel according to flesh (sarx); are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
15: 39Not all flesh (sarx) is alike, but there is one flesh (sarx) for human beings, different is the flesh (sarx) for animals, different is the flesh (sarx) for birds, and another for fish.
15: 50What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh (sarx) and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

2 Corinthians

1: 17Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to flesh (sarx), ready to say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?
4: 11For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh (sarx).
5: 16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to flesh (sarx); even though we once knew Christ from flesh (sarx), we know him no longer in that way.
7: 1Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh (sarx) and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
7: 5For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh (sarx) had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way - disputes without and fears within.
10: 2I ask that when I am present I need not show boldness by daring to oppose those who think we are acting according to flesh (sarx).
10: 3Indeed, we live in flesh (sarx), but we do not wage war according to flesh (sarx);
11: 18since many boast according to flesh (sarx), I will also boast.
12: 7even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh (sarx), a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated.

Galatians

1: 16to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any flesh (sarx) and blood,
2: 16yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no flesh (sarx) will be justified by the works of the law.
2: 20and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh (sarx) I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
3: 3Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh (sarx)?
4: 13You know that it was because of infirmity of the flesh (sarx) that I first announced the gospel to you;
4: 14though my flesh (sarx) put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
4: 23One, the child of the slave, was born according to the flesh (sarx); the other, the child of the free woman, was born through the promise.
4: 29But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh (sarx) persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.
5: 13For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for flesh (sarx), but through love become slaves to one another.
5: 16Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh (sarx).
5: 17For what the flesh (sarx) desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh (sarx); for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.
5: 19Now the works of the flesh (sarx) are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,
5: 24And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh (sarx) with its passions and desires.
6: 8If you sow to your own flesh (sarx), you will reap corruption from the flesh (sarx); but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
6: 12It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh (sarx) that try to compel you to be circumcised - only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
6: 13Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh (sarx).

Romans

1: 3the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh (sarx)
2: 28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and in the flesh (sarx)
3: 20For "no flesh (sarx) will be justified in his sight" by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
4: 1What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh (sarx)?
6: 19I am speaking in human terms because of the limitations of your flesh (sarx). For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
7: 5While we were living in the flesh (sarx), our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
7: 18For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh (sarx). I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.
7: 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh (sarx) I am a slave to the law of sin.
8: 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh (sarx), could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (sarx), and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh (sarx),
8: 4so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh (sarx) but according to the Spirit.
8: 5For those who live according to the flesh (sarx) set their minds on the things of the flesh (sarx), but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
8: 6To set the mind on the flesh (sarx) is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
8: 7For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh (sarx) is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law - indeed it cannot,
8: 8and those who are in the flesh (sarx) cannot please God.
8: 9But you are not in the flesh (sarx); you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
8: 12So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh (sarx), to live according to the flesh (sarx) -
8: 13for if you live according to the flesh (sarx), you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
9: 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh (sarx).
9: 5to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh (sarx), comes the Messiah, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
9: 8This means that it is not the children of the flesh (sarx) who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
11: 14in order to make those of my flesh (sarx) jealous, and thus save some of them.
13: 14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh (sarx), to gratify its desires.

Philemon

1: 16no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother - especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh (sarx) and in the Lord.

Colossians

1: 22he has now reconciled in his flesh (sarx)ly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him
1: 24I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh (sarx) I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.
2: 1For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in flesh. (sarx)
2: 5For though I am absent in flesh (sarx), yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
2: 11In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh (sarx) in the circumcision of Christ;
2: 13And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh (sarx), God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,
2: 18Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling on visions, puffed up without cause by a thinking from his flesh (sarx),
2: 23These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-imposed piety, humility, and severe treatment of the body, but they are of no value in checking indulgence of flesh (sarx).
3: 22Slaves, obey your masters according to flesh (sarx) in everything, not only while being watched and in order to please them, but wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

Ephesians

2: 3All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh (sarx), following the desires of flesh (sarx) and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.
2: 11So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles in flesh (sarx), called "the uncircumcision" by those who are called "the circumcision" - a physical circumcision made in the flesh (sarx) by human hands -
2: 14For he is our peace; in his flesh (sarx) he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.
5: 29For no one ever hates his own flesh (sarx), but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,
5: 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh (sarx)."
6: 5Slaves, obey your masters according to flesh (sarx) with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ;
6: 12For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh (sarx), but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

1 Timothy

3: 16Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is great: He was revealed in flesh (sarx), vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

Hebrews

2: 14Since, therefore, the children share flesh (sarx) and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
5: 7In the days of his flesh (sarx), Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
9: 10but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the flesh (sarx) imposed until the time comes to set things right.
9: 13For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh (sarx) is purified,
10: 20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh (sarx)),
12: 9Moreover, we had parents of flesh (sarx) to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

James

5: 3Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh (sarx) like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.

1 Peter

1: 24For "All flesh (sarx) is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
3: 18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh (sarx), but made alive in the spirit,
3: 21And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you - not as a removal of dirt from the flesh (sarx), but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
4: 1Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh (sarx), arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh (sarx) has finished with sin),
4: 2so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by desires of flesh (sarx) but by the will of God.
4: 6For this is the reason the gospel was proclaimed even to the dead, so that, though they had been judged in the flesh (sarx) as everyone is judged, they might live in the spirit as God does.

2 Peter

2: 10especially those who indulge their flesh (sarx) in depraved lust, and who despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,
2: 18For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with licentious desires of the flesh (sarx) they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Jude

1: 7Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued other flesh (sarx), serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
1: 8Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh (sarx), reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.
1: 23save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their flesh (sarx).

Revelation

17: 16And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh (sarx) and burn her up with fire.
19: 18to eat the flesh (sarx) of kings, the flesh (sarx) of captains, the flesh (sarx) of the mighty, the flesh (sarx) of horses and their riders - flesh (sarx) of all, both free and slave, both small and great."
19: 21And the rest were killed by the sword of the rider on the horse, the sword that came from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged with their flesh (sarx).