'My Flesh' in the Bible

The man said,“This is now bone of my bones,And flesh of my flesh;She shall be called Woman,Because she was taken out of Man.”

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.

You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’”

“Then a spirit passed by my face;The hair of my flesh bristled up.

“Is my strength the strength of stones,Or is my flesh bronze?

“My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt,My skin hardens and runs.

“Why should I take my flesh in my teethAnd put my life in my hands?

“My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

“Why do you persecute me as God does,And are not satisfied with my flesh?

“Even after my skin is destroyed,Yet from my flesh I shall see God;

“Even when I remember, I am disturbed,And horror takes hold of my flesh.

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices;My flesh also will dwell securely.

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

For my loins are filled with burning,And there is no soundness in my flesh.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

My flesh and my heart may fail,But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Because of the loudness of my groaningMy bones cling to my flesh.

My knees are weak from fasting,And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

My flesh trembles for fear of You,And I am afraid of Your judgments.

“May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”The inhabitant of Zion will say;And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.

He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,He has broken my bones.

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

‘Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted;Moreover my flesh also will live in hope;

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.