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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
σάρξ, σαρκός, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
sarx
Simplified transliteration: 
sarx
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4561
GK Number: 
4922
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
147
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-3b(1)
Gloss: 

flesh, body

Definition: 

flesh, body, the soft tissue of a creature, often in contrast to bone, ligament, or sinew; by extension human, humankind, with a focus on the fallen human nature, which is frail and corrupt in contrast to immaterial (spiritual) things, thus the NIV (1984) translation sinful nature.

flesh, Lk. 24:39; Jn. 3:6; the human body, 2 Cor. 7:5; flesh, human nature, human frame, Jn. 1:13, 14; 1 Pet. 4:1; 1 Jn. 4:2; kindred, Rom. 11:14; lineage, Rom. 1:3; 9:3; flesh, humanity, human beings, Mt. 24:22; Lk. 3:6; Jn. 17:2; the circumstances of the body, material condition, 1 Cor. 5:5; 7:28; Phlm. 16; flesh, mere humanity, human fashion, 1 Cor. 1:26; 2 Cor. 1:17; flesh as the seat of passion and frailty, Rom. 8:1, 3, 5; carnality, Gal. 5:24; materiality, material circumstance, as opposed to the spiritual, Phil. 3:3, 4; Col. 2:18; a material system or mode, Gal. 3:3; Heb. 9:10

Greek-English Concordance for σάρξ

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, “The two will become one flesh.” (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem)
1 Corinthians 7:28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. However those who do marry will have worldly (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) trouble, and I am trying to spare you.
1 Corinthians 10:18 Consider Israel according to the flesh: (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) is the same; people have one kind, animals another, birds another, fish another.
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I declare, brothers, that flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
2 Corinthians 1:17 Therefore when I was planning this, I was not capricious, was I? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), so that with me it would be “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are constantly being handed over to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
2 Corinthians 5:16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem). Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), yet now we regard him in that way no longer.
2 Corinthians 7:1 Since then we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:5 For even when we came to Macedonia, our bodies (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) had no rest, but on all sides we were distressed — from the outside came conflicts, from within there were fears.
2 Corinthians 10:2 I ask that when I am present I may not have to be “bold,” with such a confidence as I expect I will dare to use against those who think that we are walking according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem).
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), we are not waging war according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem),
2 Corinthians 11:18 Since there are many who are boasting according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), I too will boast.
2 Corinthians 12:7 especially because of the extraordinary character of my revelations. Therefore in order that I should not become conceited, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not become conceited.
Galatians 1:16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult with flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) and blood,
Galatians 2:16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, since no one will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 2:20 and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, would you now attain your goal by the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem)?
Galatians 4:13 You know that it was due to a physical (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) infirmity that I preached the gospel to you at first;
Galatians 4:14 and though my condition (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me, but you welcomed me as an angel of God, as though I were Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:23 The son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), but the son by the free woman was born as the result of promise.
Galatians 4:29 But just as at that time the one who was born according to the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) persecuted the one who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), but through love serve one another.
Galatians 5:16 So I say, live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem).
Galatians 5:17 For the desires of the flesh (sarx | σάρξ | nom sg fem) are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem); for these are opposed to one another, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,
Galatians 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) with its passions and desires.
Galatians 6:8 For the one who sows to his own flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem), from the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) will reap corruption; but the one who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:12 Those who want to make a good showing in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), they are the ones trying to force you to be circumcised — only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
Ephesians 2:3 Among them we also once lived in the passions of our flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), gratifying the desires and impulses of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), and were by nature children of wrath, just like everyone else.
Ephesians 2:11 So remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision — made in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) by hands —
Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down the dividing wall, having abolished in his flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) the hostility,
Ephesians 5:29 for no one ever hates his own body (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) but nourishes and takes care of it, just as Christ does the church,
Ephesians 5:31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem)
Ephesians 6:5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with sincerity of heart, as though obeying Christ,
Ephesians 6:12 for our struggle is not against flesh (sarka | σάρκα | acc sg fem) and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Philippians 1:22 If I am to go on living in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), that means fruitful labor for me; yet I do not know which I would prefer.
Philippians 1:24 yet for your sake it is better that I remain in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
Philippians 3:3 For we are the true circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) —
Philippians 3:4 even though I have reason for confidence in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem). If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), I have more:
Colossians 1:22 he has now reconciled in Christ’s physical (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) body physical (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) Christ’s through his death, in order to present you holy, without blemish and beyond reproach in his sight his —
Colossians 1:24 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) am completing what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in flesh (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem) my for the sake of his body, his which is the church,
Colossians 2:1 For I want For you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those in Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem).
Colossians 2:5 Even though I am absent in body (sarki | σαρκί | dat sg fem), I am absent I am with you in spirit, with you I am and I rejoice to see your orderly conduct and the stability of your faith in Christ. faith your
Colossians 2:11 In him you also were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, by the putting off of the body of flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), by the circumcision of Christ.
Colossians 2:13 And although you were dead although were in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem), your God made you alive you with Christ. He forgave us all our transgressions,
Colossians 2:18 Let no one rob you of your prize, insisting on self-abasement and the worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up with empty notions by his earthly (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem) way of thinking.
Colossians 2:23 Such regulations indeed have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed religious piety, false humility, and harsh control over the body, but they actually lead to the gratification of the flesh (sarkos | σαρκός | gen sg fem).
Colossians 3:22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in every regard, not with a view to impressing others, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

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