– In addition to frequent use in its physical sense, this word is used in Holy Scripture to mean man himself:
Jn 1:14 : And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw […] the glory that the only Son receives from his Father.
– And also the whole person. At AT:
Gen 2:24 : For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
Job 10,8-11 : With skin and flesh you clothed me, with bones and sinews you knit me together.
Ecl 4,5 : The fool folds his arms and devours his own flesh.
Ps 37 :4 : Your wrath spared nothing in my flesh, because of my sin there is nothing intact in my bones.
Ps 138,13-14 : It was you who fashioned the entrails of my body, you wove me in my mother’s womb.
Jr 1,5 : Before you were formed in the womb, I already knew you; before your birth, I had already consecrated you.
2Mc 7,22 : Because it was not I who gave you spirit and life, it was not I who gathered your members together.
– In the NT, it indicates the wonderful incarnation of the Son of God, assuming a body like ours:
Jn 1,9-16 : And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw his glory.
Phil 2,5-11 : But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave and making himself like men.
Eph 5:31 : For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh (Gen 2:24).
1Jn 4:2 : By this the Spirit of God is recognized: every spirit that proclaims that Jesus Christ has become incarnate is from God.
– And the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, with his Flesh and his Blood:
Jn 6:32-71 : “Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father is the one who gives you the true bread from heaven.”
– In a figurative and spiritual sense, it summarizes human opposition to God:
Mt 16:17 : Happy are you, Simon, son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you.
John 1:13 : Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3 :6 : What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Jn 6:63 : It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Rom 7 :5 : Indeed, when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the Law were at work in our members.
Rom 8:5-6 : Now the desire of the flesh is death, while the desire of the spirit is life and peace.
Gal 4,21-23 : Tell me, you who want to be subject to a Law: do you not listen to the Law?
Gal 6:8 : Whoever sows to the flesh will from the flesh reap corruption.
1Cor 11,23-29 : Whoever eats and drinks without distinguishing the body of the Lord, eats and drinks judgment on himself.
1Cor 15,50 : What I say, brothers, is that neither flesh nor blood can participate in the Kingdom of God.
2Cor 10,3 : For although we live in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh.
Gal 2:20 : My present life in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal 5,16.19-20 : I say therefore: let yourselves be led by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the appetites of the flesh.
Eph 2 :3 : When we once lived in the desires of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and lust.
Heb 2:14 : For the children partake of the same nature, of the same flesh and blood.
– Indicates the man, weak and sick. In the NT it means, above all, fragility:
Eclo 28,5 : He, who is only flesh, holds a grudge, and asks God to be propitious to him!
Jr 17,5 : Cursed is the man who trusts in another man, who makes flesh his support.
2Cor 4,11 : Delivered to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also appear in our mortal flesh.
Mt 26,41 : Watch and pray so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Mk 14:38 : Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
– The man inclined to evil:
Ps 77,39 : Knowing that they were mere flesh, a single breath, which passes without returning.
Rom 7 :5 : Indeed, when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the Law.
Gal 5,16-24 : I say therefore: let yourselves be led by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the appetites of the flesh.
Eph 2 :3 : When we once lived in the desires of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and lust.
– Man when he acts naturally, without the supernatural help of grace:
John 1:13 : Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Romans 9:8: That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God.
