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of
wine'. 'Spiritual' songs are in direct contrast with such 'riot'.
In
a number of passages, Paul contrasts 'spiritual' with 'carnal' and
as
this is an inspired juxtaposition, it settles the question for us as
to
the essential meaning of 'spiritual'.
Spiritual
v
Carnal
(Pneumatikos
v
Sarkikos)
'The law is spiritual: but I am carnal' (Rom. 7:14).
'Their spiritual things ... minister ... in carnal things'
(Rom. 15:27).
'Not ... as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal' (1 Cor. 3:1).
'We have sown ... spiritual things ... reap your carnal things' (1 Cor.
9:11).
'Spiritual wickednesses ... not ... flesh and blood' (Eph. 6:12).
Spiritual
v
Natural
(Pneumatikos
v
Psuchikos)
'It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body'
(1 Cor. 15:44).
'That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural' (1
Cor. 15:46).
'Sensual (psuchikos), having not the Spirit' (Jude 19).
Spirit
v
Flesh
(Pneuma
v
Sarx).
'That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit' (John 3:6).
'It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing'
(John 6:63).
'Which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and
declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of
holiness' (Rom. 1:3,4).
'Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit' (Rom. 8:4).
'The things of the flesh ... the things of the Spirit' (Rom. 8:5).
'To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life
and peace' (Rom. 8:6).
'Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit' (Rom. 8:9).
'For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the
Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live' (Rom. 8:13).
'The destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved'
(1 Cor. 5:5).
'Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?'
(Gal. 3:3).
'Born after the flesh ... born after the spirit' (Gal. 4:29).
'Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh'
(Gal. 5:16).
'The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the
flesh' (Gal. 5:17).
'The works of the flesh ... the fruit of the Spirit' (Gal. 5:19-22).