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In the Bible, your Inner Mess is called "the flesh." I use the terms "flesh" and "inner mess" interchangeably. I the Bible uses the adjective form "carnal" from the same Greek root (sarx). Here are some key verses about your Inner Mess. You can use these for your own studies. I've used the New King James Version of the Bible.

Scriptures About Your Inner Mess

• For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. (Romans 7:5, NKJV).
• For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Romans 8:6, NKJV).
• Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. (Romans 8:7, NKJV).
• So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:8, NKJV).
• Therefore, brethren, we are debtors--not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (Romans 8:12, 13, NKJV).
• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. (Romans 13:14, NKJV).
• And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. (1 Corinthians 3:1, NKJV).
• for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? (1 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV).
• Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2 Corinthians 7:1, NKJV).
• Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3, NKJV).
• For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. (Galatians 5:13, NKJV).
• I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (Galatians 5:16, 17, 19, NKJV).
• And those who are Christ�s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (Galatians 5:24, NKJV).
• among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. (Ephesians 2:3, NKJV).
• These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh. (Colossians 2:23, NKJV).
• and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, (2 Peter 2:10, NKJV).
• For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. (2 Peter 2:18, NKJV).
• For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. (1 John 2:16, NKJV).

• “that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. De 30:3
• But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth. Ps 86:15
• Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies. La 3:32
• I drew them with gentle cords, With bands of love, And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them. Ho 11:4
• He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea. Mic 7:19
• But let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name Be joyful in You. Ps 5:11
• Bow down Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily; Be my rock of refuge, A fortress of defense to save me. Ps 31:2
• A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in His holy habitation. Ps 68:5
• But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand. Isa 64:8a
• “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Mt 6:9
• “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Mt 7:11
• For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” Ro 8:15
• You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great. Ps 18:35
• He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, And carry them in His bosom, And gently lead those who are with young. Isa 40:11
• Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings, Ps 17:8
• For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. Ps 27:5
• You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence From the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion From the strife of tongues. Ps 31:20
• You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah Ps 32:7
• Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity, Ps 64:2
• You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word. Ps 119:114
• Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies; In You I take shelter. Ps 143:9
• A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, And a cover from the tempest, As rivers of water in a dry place, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Isa 32:2
• “but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. De 7:8
• The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous. Ps 146:8
• The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you. Jer 31:3
• “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Joh 3:16
• But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Ro 5:8
• But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, Eph 2:4
• even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), Eph 2:5
• Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 1Jo 3:1
• In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 1Jo 4:9