Sentences with phrase «from fleshly»

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

From our fleshly desires to the whim of our other desires to what we want in life all these rule our lives.

American Standard Version Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

American King James Version Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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.»

Not exact matches

This is why I say to you (as representing the nation of fleshly Israel), the Kingdom of God will be taken from you and be given to a nation producing its fruits.»

I've actually dealt with a large number of homosexual individuals (worked in an HIV program) plus in various other ministries... the whole «wired» thing I get but it isn't any different from other «fleshly» wiring that anyone else has... everyone has fleshly challenges that pull them from «The Way».

«Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self - abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind and not holding fast to the head, Christ, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.»

Ah, yes, and this is what happens when people are choosing to do whatever they want to please their fleshly desires, without discerning right, from wrong as taught to us they would do, prophesied in Malachi 3v13 - 15, and is why we have the troubles, and sufferings of today.

This will require spreading our own evangelical creed: that we are not disembodied subjects but fleshly icons of the invisible God; whose worth comes not from extorted approval of our personal choices but from His infinite, undeserved love.

And since our hope is to participate in his Resurrection life, and since we clearly can not expect to be raised in our fleshly bodies, then our resurrection from death (which will not be physical) can not be different in kind from his.

Steven thanks for your testimony I agree with your view that homosexuality is not an orientation we are not born that way but its a choice.We can choose to live by what our flesh dictates or we can live by what God reveals through his word and by his holy spirit.If we are serious about following God we chose to follow him so it does nt matter whether gay or straight our choice is to follow God with all our heart.I have never been gay but have battled and was overcome by my fleshly desires not until i turned from them and asked the holy spirit to help me have i been changed for that i will always be grateful to the Lord.So in that sense we are no different our testimonys are important and are powerful.Thank you for your witness and may the Lord continue to use you as his vessel to touch lives and hearts for him.brentnz

«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.»

Though the Word now becomes flesh, the fleshly become unaware of their own understanding ways... For as one sees one does nary understand yet as one thinks one dares to know things and while one and all beget themselves they become set apart and distanced from each others ways.

If that man chooses to do any of the works of a regenerate believer in Jesus, he can — from his dead spirit and from his natural soul, ultimately from a source of fleshly self - pride.

This is indeed a lamentable fact; but there is a wisdom which is not from above, but is earthly and fleshly and devilish.

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.

The unequivocal way the Word is actualized in flesh directs us to see that the Word, far from being fundamentally alien to flesh, is itself the source and ground of fleshly realities within which we find ourselves.

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

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

(failed miserably) the last 3 chapters of the bible tell how God Jehovah with his son and King Jesus with their Kingdom of priests and kings will remove satan, his followers (spirit and fleshly), repair the damage and replace the paradise intended from the beginning.

Working backward from her abhorrence of national idolatry, according to Yourgrau, Weil's theology seeks to excise the fleshly, Jewish side of Christianity and repudiate the supposedly cruel God of the Hebrew Bible.

On the lower grounds of the park, a new, stainless steel sculpture, Lick Your Throat and Cut Your Feet, 2017, a fragmented assemblage of body parts and abstracted, fleshly forms, emerges from a secluded location in the trees near Lake Austin.

In 1969, in the catalogue of his first retrospective, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, he identified his parents as «an ascetic, remotely male, Irish Catholic truant officer, whose junior I am, and a stupid, fleshly tyrant of a woman who had descended from German royalty without a trace of nobility.»