Sentences with phrase «desires against the flesh»

It is the flesh that sets its desires against the Spirit and the Spirit sets its desires against the flesh.

Not exact matches

Having the same passion and similar inclinations, the difference between Christians and non-christians: Christians expose the problems and fight against the flesh's improper desires and evil, and many of them overcome as a result and establish good laws.

We pursue desires of the flesh that war against the Spirit of God.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

People who became Christians as adults know from experience that prior to believing in Jesus, they often struggled with sin and fought against the desires of their flesh, usually to no avail.

Total commitment to a pure food diet is a vow of food chastity, a war against the lower desires of the flesh.