Sentences with word «fleshly»

Yet not as fleshly bodies, but as spiritual bodies.

The word pharmakia is used 5 times in the NT, incl Galations 5:20 where druggery is listed with drunkeness as feeding one «s own fleshly desires rather than treating any sort of ailment.

(Thou shalt not be mixed together with a man, like in fleshly coupling with a woman, for it is an abomination.)

At one end of the gamut is Acts 20:10, where Paul, finding a supposed dead man still breathing, cries, «Make ye no ado; for his psyche is in him»; at the other is I Peter 2:11, where the full spiritual meaning of the term is evident — «Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.»

So before God had created the universe, let alone humanity and thus His own fleshly incarnation in the form of Jesus, He wanted to show His love for Himself by giving Himself a gift.

King James 2000 Bible Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

refer to idle speculation, or, in the phrase «fleshly mind,» (Colossians 2:18, 21 - 23.)

Without some objective standard, we can claim that God told us anything and justify (albeit falsely) our own fleshly desires.

Microsoft is always flashy in their presentation and awes people with fleshly lights and stage performances but that's because they're Microsoft, masters of marketing, which is all they're really good at, everything else is smoke and mirrors, but at the end if the day, literally, everyone says essentially «alright that was fun but let's get down to business as its PlayStation time.»

2 Maccabees clearly portrays a resurrection after death and one which probably implies a physical fleshly form.8 But it is certainly not a general resurrection of all men that is contemplated, and perhaps not the resurrection of even all pious Jews.

Ezekiel 37 is not applying to the nation of fleshly Israel returning to their homeland in 1948.

Babette's lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family's dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines.

If we set our mind on things of the flesh, even if we are setting our mind on not doing things of the flesh, we will face the constant struggle of falling into fleshly things, and will frequently stumble.

Today the mist of fleshly weakness was for a little while removed, and the eternal Sun, in a new and stunning miracle, shone forth by radiating through a yet mortal body.

It also leads to a docetic Christology in which the reality, that is the concrete fleshly existence of Christ and especially of man, is removed from the realm of meaning.

Infact, the knowledge of good and evil is good — but not for fleshly mankind.

«Flesh,» therefore, in Paul's usage was a metaphor for all the lower, unredeemed side of human nature and, so far from being confined to or even indissolubly connected with the material body, it might, as in the phrase «fleshly wisdom,» (II Corinthians 1:12.)

Here, Paul is referring to such fleshly sins that disqualify a man from preaching and leading the church, particularly being blameless and above reproach in the sexual area, since such sin is a disqualification (see Ps.

This is essentially what Paul is saying in Romans 8:5 - 7 when he talks about the mind set on fleshly things.

God, the cosmic Lover, graciously embraces not just a person's disembodied spirit, but the whole fleshly self.

The surfaces are predominantly painted black; projected on these dark backgrounds like fleshly X rays are translucent, ghostly - white figures, their heads always cropped by the canvases» top edges.

In Marjorie Prime Jon Hamm plays a hologram, which may seem like odd casting of an actor with such fleshly presence.

The view of Abraham's fleshly descendants as God's sole «chosen people», that the Judaisers taught, was soundly repudiated by Jesus, Paul and the other disciples.

«We know that if our earthly house, this [fleshly] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.»

Christianity is about stuff: material, fleshly stuff.

«The author of the Apocalypse of Peter writes that the «living Jesus» was above the cross laughing while the substitute fleshly part was crucified.

Like Powers depicting his eminently fleshly and fallen clerics, Czaia speaks to the paradox of an embodied, sinful, human priesthood: «death poured out of his mouth along with the gospel.»

Despite all the determined efforts to maintain a triumphal optimism about the liberating possibilities of weight loss, the oppressiveness of fleshly disciplines may well prevail, as the command to love oneself, including the body, is contradicted and undermined by the directive to amend its defects and unceasingly refine its contours.

Were not people born from their parents» lusts after fleshly things?

Not the least of these common vitalities is love — the kind of fleshly love.

I think there is a conditional there — «if» — but I would rather the onus of the action be based in Christ's empowering grace than in my less - than - stellar fleshly ability.