Concordance

“Flesh” in the Bible

179 verses contain “flesh” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 2:21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Genesis 2:23 And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 17:11 You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
Genesis 17:13 Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 29:14 Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
Genesis 37:27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
Genesis 40:19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
Exodus 28:42 Make linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.
Exodus 29:14 But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Exodus 29:31 You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
Leviticus 4:11 But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
Leviticus 6:27 Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in a holy place.
Leviticus 8:17 But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.
Leviticus 9:11 But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.
Leviticus 12:3 And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
Leviticus 13:10 The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
Leviticus 13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears on someone, he will be unclean.
Leviticus 13:15 When the priest sees the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.
Leviticus 13:16 But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.
Leviticus 16:27 …atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned…
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the…
Leviticus 17:14 For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its…
Leviticus 26:29 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
Numbers 12:12 Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
Numbers 16:22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
Numbers 19:5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
Numbers 27:16 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
Deuteronomy 5:26 For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
Deuteronomy 28:53 Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will…
Deuteronomy 28:55 refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within…
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Judges 8:7 “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
Judges 9:2 …ule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and…
1 Samuel 17:44 “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
2 Samuel 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
2 Samuel 16:11 …bishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me,…
2 Samuel 19:12 You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
2 Samuel 19:13 And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
2 Kings 5:10 Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
2 Kings 5:14 …ven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was…
2 Kings 9:36 … ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of…
2 Kings 20:18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
1 Chronicles 11:1 Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
2 Chronicles 32:8 With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of…
Job 2:5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Job 6:12 Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
Job 10:4 Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Job 10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Job 15:27 Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
Job 19:20 My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Job 19:26 Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
Job 33:21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
Job 33:25 then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
Job 34:15 all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
Job 41:23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Psalms 27:2 When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
Psalms 50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Psalms 79:2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 84:2 My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Psalms 102:5 Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
Psalms 119:120 My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
Proverbs 5:11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of…
Isaiah 9:20 …eft, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own…
Isaiah 31:3 But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall;…
Isaiah 39:7 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
Isaiah 40:6 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
Isaiah 49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and…
Isaiah 58:7 … naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and…
Isaiah 66:16 For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.
Isaiah 66:17 …the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the…
Jeremiah 12:12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
Jeremiah 17:5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Jeremiah 19:9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek…
Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
Jeremiah 51:35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
Lamentations 3:4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
Ezekiel 21:5 Then all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have taken My sword from its sheath, not to return it again.’
Ezekiel 32:5 I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 37:6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I…
Ezekiel 37:8 As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
Ezekiel 39:17 … great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink…
Ezekiel 39:18 You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
Ezekiel 40:43 The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
Ezekiel 44:7 …, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke…
Ezekiel 44:9 This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
Daniel 7:5 …en its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on…
Micah 3:2 You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
Micah 3:3 You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
Zephaniah 1:17 …he LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like…
Zechariah 11:9 Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
Zechariah 11:16 …the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their…
Zechariah 14:12 …es all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will…
Matthew 16:17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
Matthew 19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Matthew 19:6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Mark 10:8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Luke 24:39 Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself. Touch Me and see—for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 3:6 Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
John 6:51 …s bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My…
John 6:52 At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
John 6:54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55 For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
John 6:56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Romans 1:3 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
Romans 6:19 … am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness,…
Romans 7:5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
Romans 7:18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
Romans 7:25 Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 8:3 … the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus…
Romans 8:4 so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:5 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.
Romans 8:6 The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Romans 8:8 Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong…
Romans 8:12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
Romans 9:8 So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
Romans 13:14 Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 5:5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:16 Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
2 Corinthians 5:16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
2 Corinthians 10:2 I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 11:18 Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
2 Corinthians 12:7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Galatians 1:16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,
Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?
Galatians 4:23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
Galatians 4:29 At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
Galatians 5:16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
Galatians 5:19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

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