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.
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?
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.
Romans 12:1
I entreat you, then, Brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship.
Galatians 5:16-21
This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.
Hebrews 11:13
All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only aliens and strangers on the earth.
1 Peter 1:17
And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth.
1 Peter 4:2
and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;
Luke 21:34
Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.
Acts 15:20
But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.
Acts 15:29
That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'
Romans 7:23
But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.
Romans 13:13-14
Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
2 Corinthians 5:20
It is, then, on Christ's behalf that we are acting as ambassadors, God, as it were, appealing to you through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf--Be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.
2 Corinthians 7:1
With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.
Ephesians 4:1
I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner in the Master's cause-- to live lives worthy of the Call that you have received;
1 Timothy 6:9-10
Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin.
1 Peter 1:1
To the People of God who are living abroad, dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Roman Asia, and Bithynia,