Bible Verses About Warfare of Saints: The flesh

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

Beloved, I call upon you , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,