Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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Bible References
Mortify
Romans 6:6
We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin.
Romans 8:13
If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.
Ephesians 5:3
As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,
Members
Romans 6:13
Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.
Romans 7:5
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
James 4:1
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
Evil
Romans 7:7
What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our forefathers longed.
Ephesians 4:19
Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.