Sentences with phrase «of flesh»

Mormonism teaches that God the Father has a body of flesh and bones (D. & C. 130:22) and that Jesus is a creation.

Ragan Sutterfield is the author of This is My Body: From Obesity to Ironman, My Journey Into the True Meaning of Flesh, Spirit, and Deeper Faith.

«When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ.

For white writers, the puzzle of the flesh usually has to do with the uneasy relationship of body to spirit.

The sins of... pride and self satisfaction, are more deadly... than the sins of the flesh ever were, or can be.»

The painting is unified only by the fact that the violent treatment of paint expresses the agony of these twisted sacks of flesh and blood.

Enslaved to fear of death, we do what the apostle Paul calls the «works of the flesh» — immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, and envying.

The very weakness of our flesh makes us reactive and violent.

Enslaved to fear of death, we do what the apostle Paul calls the «works of the flesh» — i

The cross of Christ signifies not only the way of peace but the way to peace, for it is only as we grasp the meaning of the cross that we are enabled to die to the passions of the flesh and live and walk in the way of righteousness.

The Word is tempted by all the indulgent and violent instincts of flesh, yet he doesn't sin.

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

«Gentiles and Jews, he has made the two one, and in his own body of flesh and blood has broken down the enmity which stood like a dividing wall between them (Eph.

Frequently, bad things happen in our life because of our flesh.

But in the midst of our unpreparedness, even as we repent of our sins, the Church bears witness to that heavenly order of rejoicing in that Light which illumines every light: God is coming into the world, to make holy all the world in «the economy of the flesh,» as St. Cyril has it.

As humans in a broken sinfilled world we often struggle with «The Desires of The Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his message.

The vail of our flesh is a blinder.

The rocks are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16).

Christ Jesus, who is eternally begotten of the Father, is begotten in time of the Holy Spirit, and takes on our own flesh and blood «not out of human stock, or urge of the flesh, or will of man, but of God» (Jn 1, 13).

These symbols have at times been understood as indications of Christ's removal from the travail and humiliation of the flesh, of his restoration to an immutable and transcendent realm of glory.

Why didn't you reference 1 Corinthians 5:5 «To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.»

The principal thesis of the study is that habits of prayer, ascetical practices, including the mortification of the flesh, frequent confession, and the control of sexual fantasies are all essential to chastity and to the overall pastoral effectiveness of the priest.

21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ...

Jesus was a man of flesh and blood, like any of us.

1 Cor 15 on the resurrection of the flesh being crucial: no big deal is made of this.

Paul is not saying that the destruction of the flesh by Satan necessarily leads to salvation.

And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Adam said this is flesh of my flesh, bone of bones, how come then choose to divorce your spouse if that is how we commit ourselves.

This individual being delivered unto Satan didn't result in loss of salvation, but in the destruction of his flesh, yet his spirit remains saved.

What do you think it means to have no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God due to regular practice of the works of the flesh rather than the works of God?

We do not mean a contemporary human being of flesh and blood in either earth or heaven.

(1:10,13), and «For while there is jealousy» and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

This transition reaches maturity in those who have achieved a transparent mastery of the spirit over the movements of the flesh.

Romans 8:5: «For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.»

He is Spirit (John 4:24), and Spirit is not made of flesh and bone (Luke 24:39).

------------- I am not a helpless, withering piece of flesh who have been ravaged by the trial of life who will not move on.

Jeremiah 32:27: Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.

1 John 2:16 - 17: «For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world.

KJV Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

6:13 And God said unto Noah: «The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold I will destroy them with the earth.

A new heart also will I give you;... and I will take away the stony heart Out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

They believe God the Father has a «body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's.»

The definition therefore certainly embraces every conceivable and actual form of sin; it certainly throws into relief the decisive fact that sin is despair (for sin is not the wildness of flesh and blood, but it is the spirit's consent thereto), and it is... before God.

«51 Writing in Christianity Today, Episcopal Bishop Bennett Sims makes much the same conclusion, finding in Galatians 5:16 («walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh») evidence that an orientation that is not enacted need not be judged sinful.52

Leviticus 17:11: «For the life of the flesh is in the blood.»

Gifts, either of the flesh or of the spirit; and the spirit bloweth where it listeth; and the world's materials lend their surface passively to all the gifts alike, as the stage - setting receives indifferently whatever alternating colored lights may be shed upon it from the optical apparatus in the gallery.

To quote Tertullian «that they might obtain their favorite food of flesh forms and blood».

A kenotic Word acts or moves by reversing the forms of flesh and Spirit.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.