WORKS OF THE FLESH

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:

1. Romans 1:24-32 “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust (See I Corinthians 7:9) one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, convenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”


 

2. Romans 13:12-14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.”


 

3. Galatians 5:19-21 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest; which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.”


 

4. Ephesians 4:31 “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”


 

5. Ephesians 5:3-8 “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”


 

GREEK WORDS DEFINED:


 

  1. Adultery: moicheia = commit adultery, adulterer, unchastity, sexual vice, figuratively apostate


 

  1. Anger: orge = desire, excitement of the mind, violent passion, abhorrence, punishment, indignation, vengeance, wrath, to rise or rear up


 

  1. Backbiters: katalos = talking against, backbiter, opposition, one who speaks against, slanderers, defamers, stabbers-in-the-back, scandal-mongers, boast


 

  1. Bitterness: pikria = sharpness, spite, resentment, bitterness, bitter feelings, poison, piercing, sharp


 

  1. Boasters: alazon = taking on great airs, boastfulness, braggart


 

  1. Burn: puroo = to kindle, ignite, glow, inflamed, to be on fire


 

  1. Burn: ekkaio = to inflame, to set on fire, kindle deeply, burn


 

  1. Chambering: koite = place for lying, couch, lewdness, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, cohabitating, male sperm, conceive


 

  1. Clamor: krauge = an outcry, harsh words, tumult, grief, clamor, crying, scream, shriek, exclaim, cry out


 

  1. Covenant-breakers: asunthetos = not bound by covenant, covenant breaker, untrustworthy, false to their word, treacherous, faithless, without faith


 

  1. Covetous: pleonektes = holding and desiring more, eager for gain, defrauder, covetous


 

  1. Covetousness: pleonexia = to wish or desire for more, ruthless greed, itch to get hands on what belongs to another, fraudulency, extortion, greediness, covetousness, eager for gain


 

  1. Debate: eris = strife, quarreling, wrangling, contention, debate


 

  1. Deceit: dolos = guile, bait, decoy, trick, crafty, subtlety, entrap, entice, delusion


 

  1. Despiteful: hubristes = insulting, injury, hurt, despiteful, insolent, insolent pride, violence, abuse, entreat shamefully, over bearing


 

  1. Dishonor: atimazo = meaning to dishonor, degrade, shame


 

  1. Disobedient to parents: epeites gonrus = meaning not persuaded, unyielding, undutiful to parents, disobedient, argumentative, scoff at duty to parents, no loyalty to parents


 

  1. Drunkenness: methe = to drink, an intoxicant, intoxication, drunkenness, carousing, drunken bouts


 

  1. Emulations: zelos = heat, malice, indignation, zeal, jealousy, envy, to be hot, boil


 

  1. Envy: phthonos = ill will, jealousy, spite, overflow with envy, full of envy, to pine or waste, shrivel, wither, spoil, ruin, deprave, defile, destroy


 

  1. Envying: zelos = zeal, jealousy, to be hot, malice, envy, indignation


 

  1. Envyings: phthonos = jealousy


 

  1. Evil speaking: blasphemia = vilification, blasphemy, evil speaking, railing, to hinder, to injure, hurt, rumor


 

  1. Filthiness: aischrotes = baseness, obscenity, shamelessness, shameful conduct, indecency, filthiness, disgrace, disfigurement, to feel shame


 

  1. Foolish talking: morologia = foolish discourse, buffoonery, scurrilous talk, smartness in talk, silly talk, dull, stupid, morally heedless, blockhead, absurd, fool


 

  1. Fornication: porneia = whoredom, to act the harlot, harlotry, whore, including adultery and incest, unchastity, sexual vice, practice idolatry, fornication, indulge unlawful lust of either sex


 

  1. Hatred: echthra = enmity, hostility, opposition, to hate, hatred, adversary (especially Satan), enemy, foe


 

  1. Haters of God: theostuges = hateful to God, hater of God; theos = deity, supreme Divinity, God


 

  1. Heresies: hairesis = choice, opinion, sentiment, sectarian parties, party intrigues, sect, to take for oneself, that is to prefer, choose


 

  1. Idolater: eidololatres = worshipper of idols, greedy of gain, idol-worshipper, image worshipper of heathen god


 

  1. Idolatry: eidololatreia = idol, worship of idols, image worship, worship of a heathen god


 

  1. Implacable: aspondos = irreconcilable, without treaty, truceless, truce breaker


 

  1. Inventors of evil things: epheuretas kakos = inventing sin, schemes or plans for evil, worthless, depraved, injurious, bad, harmful, hurtful, degenerate, vicious, more sensual forms of excitement and vice, ingenious in evil, wickedness, diabolical inventions, malicious, invent new kinds of mischief, contriver, discoverer, inventor


 

  1. Jesting: eutrapelia = witty in a vulgar sense, jesting, pleasantry, levity


 

  1. Lasciviousness: aselgeia = excess, indecency, sensuality, licentiousness, filthy


 

  1. Lusts: epithumia = desire, over desire, coveting of the heart, to set heart upon, longing for what is forbidden, lust after, passion as if breathing hard, fierceness, indignation, wrath abandoned to impurity, cravings of the heart, every sort of sex sin, sexual vices, vileness, playthings of own foul desires, lustful hearts, filthy practices


 

  1. Malice: kakia = bad, depravity, trouble, evil, malice, wickedness, worthless, depraved, injurious, harm, ill, noisome, diseased, harm, lewd, derelict


 

  1. Maliciousness: kakia = evil, badness, depravity, trouble, malice, wickedness, worthless, noisome


 

  1. Malignity: kakoetheia = evil, degenerate, diseased, evil disposition, ill nature, ill-will, bad character, mischievousness, worthless, depraved, injurious, bad, liar, harmful, hurtful, malicious, wicked


 

  1. Men leave natural use of women : aphiemi = forsake, leave, separation, departure, cessation, completion, reversal; phusikos = instinctive, natural, usage, nature; chresis = use, employment, sexual intercourse as an occupation of the body; thelus = female, woman


 

  1. Men with men burn in their lust toward one another: arrhen arsen = male, man, burn, desire, stir up; ekkaio = to burn forth, to inflame deeply, flame up, consumed with passion, burned fiercely, swept into lustful passions, ablaze with passion, burnt up with desire, run wild with lust, set on fire, kindle, consume; orexis = lust, excitement of the mind, longing after lust, reach out after, stretch oneself, long for, covet after, desire


 

  1. Men working that which is unseemly: katergazomai = work fully, accomplish, perform, work out, intensity, toil, task, to work, labor; aschemosune = indecency, shame, unseemly


 

  1. Men receive recompence of their error which was meet: apolambano = to receive, in full, to get hold of, obtain; antimisthia = recompense, pay for service, reward, wages; plane = fraudulence, straying from orthodoxy or piety, deceit, deceive, delusion, error, seducing, imposter; dei = necessary, binding, must needs, ought, should, be in bonds, bind


 

  1. Murder: phonos = murder, to slay, slaughter


 

  1. Not convenient katheko = to reach to, becoming, convenient, fit, opposition, intensity


 

  1. Proud: huperephanos = appearing conspicuously above others, exceeding proud, haughty, insolent pride


 

  1. Reprobate mind: adokimos = unapproved, rejected, worthless, will, depraved thoughts, base mind, disapproved mind, degenerate mind, castaway, reprobate; nous = mind, intellect, thought, feeling or will, meaning mind, understanding, to know, understand, perceive


 

  1. Revellings: komoi = wantonness, carousing, orgies, wild parties, giving license to sensual urges, a letting loose, rioting


 

  1. Rioting: komos = reveling, rioting, carousing, letting loose


 

  1. Seditions: dichostasia = a standing apart, divisions, dissensions, disunion


 

  1. Strife: eris = contention, quarrel, wrangling, debate, strife, intrigues, envy, provoke, stimulate to anger


 

  1. Unclean person: akathartos = unclean, impure, morally lewd, demonic, foul


 

  1. Uncleanness: akatharsia = uncleanness, impure physically or morally, impurity, debauchery, immoral, cravings, do whatever one wants to, lewd, foul, demonic


 

  1. Unmerciful: aneleemon = without kindness, without pity, mercy, unpitying, ruthless, heartless, unmerciful, no compassion


 

  1. Unrighteousness: adikia = injustice, wrong character, life or act, iniquity, unrighteousness, wicked, heathen


 

  1. Variance: eris = contention, strife, quarrel, contentious temper, wrangling, debate


 

  1. Vile affections: atimia = infamy, indignity, disgrace, dishonor, reproach, shame, vile, dishonoring themselves, disgraceful passions


 

  1. Vile: pathos = feeling, passion, inordinate affections, lust, to dishonor, vile passions, shameful passions, passions of dishonor


 

  1. Wantonness: aselgeia meaning lewdness, lasciviousness, indecency, debauchery, sensuality


 

  1. Whisperers: psithuristes = secret, slander, lie, deceive, a whisperer, detractors, gossip


 

  1. Whoremonger: pornos = a fornicator, immoral, unchaste, prostitute, fornicator, whoremonger


 

  1. Wickedness: poneria = evil, hurtful, degenerate, malice, mischief, lewd, depravity, iniquity, wickedness


 

  1. Witchcraft: pharmakeia = medication (pharmacy), magic, a charm, remedy, a magician, sorcery, witchcraft, a drug, a spell giving potion, poisoner


 

  1. Without natural affection: astorgos = without natural affection, callous, unloving, hard hearted towards kindred


 

  1. Without understanding: asunetos = unintelligent, not sent together, undiscerning, destitute of sense, devoid of conscience, conscienceless, foolish, without sense, wicked, without understanding


 

  1. Women change natural use: metallasso = exchange, change, transfer, to make different; phusikos = physical, instinctive, natural, usage; chresis = employment, sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body), from root chrao = to loan, lend; charaomai = to handle, furnish, employ, to act towards one in a given manner


 

  1. Women against nature: para = unnatural, unnatural intercourse, perverting the natural, God’s natural plan, indulged in sex sin with each other near, from beside, vicinity, opposed to, contrary; phusis = growth by germination or expansion, according to nature, genus, sort, usage, sprout, produce


 

  1. Wrath: thumos = passion as if breathing hard, fierceness, indignation, mind, wrath, passionate anger, fits of rage, slaughter, kill


 

 


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