Topic
Carnal
16 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Romans 8:6Easton · ISBE
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
- Romans 8:7Easton · ISBE
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
- Romans 15:27Easton · ISBE
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
- 1 Corinthians 3:3Easton · ISBE
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
- 1 Corinthians 9:11Easton · ISBE
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
- 2 Corinthians 10:4Easton · ISBE
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
- Hebrews 7:16Easton · ISBE
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
- Hebrews 9:10Easton · ISBE
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
- Leviticus 18:20ISBE
Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
- Leviticus 19:20ISBE
¶ And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Numbers 5:13ISBE
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
- Romans 7:14ISBE
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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- 1 Corinthians 3:1 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 1:12 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 ISBE
- 1 Peter 2:11 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 8 references
Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented as of a “carnal mind, which is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:6, 7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man’s animal nature are so called (Rom. 15:27; 1 Cor. 9:11). The ceremonial of the Mosaic law is spoken of as “carnal,” because it related to things outward, the bodies of men and of animals, and the purification of the flesh (Heb. 7:16; 9:10). The weapons of Christian warfare are “not carnal”, that is, they are not of man’s device, nor are wielded by human power (2 Cor. 10:4).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 16 references
kar'-nal: In the Old Testament there is an expression which indicates sexual intercourse shikhebhath zera`, "lying of seed," (Le 18:20; 19:20; Nu 5:13). In the New Testament the words rendered "carnal" are derived from sarks, "flesh." This refers to the flesh as opposed to the pneuma, "spirit," and denotes, in an ethical sense, mere human nature, the lower side of man as apart from the Divine influence, and therefore estranged from God and prone to sin; whatever in the soul is weak and tends toward ungodliness (see FLESH). Thus one may be carnal (sarkinos), sold under sin (Ro 7:14). Christians may be carnal (sarkinos, 1Co 3:1; sarkikos, 1Co 3:3); the lower side of their being is dominant and not the spirit, hence, they fall into sins of envy and strife. The weapons of the Christian warfare are not carnal, not merely human (of the flesh the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version), but spiritual (2Co 10:4); "not after the law of a carnal commandment" (Hebrews 7:16); "The carnal mind is enmity against God" ("mind of the flesh" the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version, Ro 8:7). So, "to be carnally minded is death" ("mind of the flesh" the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version, Ro 8:6). There are "carnal ordinances," in contrast to the spiritual ones of the gospel (Hebrews 9:10); "Minister unto them in carnal things," those that pertain to the body in contrast to spiritual things (Ro 15:27; 1Co 9:11). The same expressions are elsewhere rendered "fleshly" (2Co 1:12; 3:3 the Revised Version (British and American) "hearts of flesh"; 1Pe 2:11).
Is there any difference between sarkinos and sarkikos? The former more definitely denotes the material of which an object is made. It may express with emphasis the idea of sarkikos, the spiritual given up as it were to the flesh.
See MAN (THE NATURAL).
G. H. Trever
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.