Colossians 3:5

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Summary

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Mortify

Members

Romans 6:13

Romans 7:5

James 4:1

Evil

Bible References

Mortify

knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:

for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if, through the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Members

and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

Evil

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they, also, desired.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,