Colossians 3:5

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:

Mortify

Members

Romans 6:13

Romans 7:5

James 4:1

Evil

Bible References

Mortify

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be brought to nought, that we should no more be in bondage to sin;

for, if ye live according to the flesh, ye are going to die; but, if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

And those who are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

Members

neither present 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 passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Evil

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

Now these things became types for us, that we might not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

who, indeed, having become without feeling, delivered themselves up to lasciviousness for the working of all uncleanness with greediness.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;