1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
James 4:1
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
Romans 8:13
for if you live by such a standard, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put a stop to the doings of your lower nature, you will live.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.
Romans 12:1
I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Galatians 5:16-21
I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.
2 Timothy 2:22
You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.
Hebrews 11:13
These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.
1 Peter 1:17
And if you address as Father, Him who judges everyone impartially in accordance with what he does, you must live reverently all your fleeting stay on earth,
1 Peter 4:2
so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.
1 John 2:15-17
Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
Luke 21:34
But ever be on your guard, so that your hearts may not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries, and that day, like a trap, catch you unawares.
Acts 15:20
but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from everything that is offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the meat of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves free from these things, you will prosper. Good-by."
Romans 7:23
but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.
Romans 13:13-14
Let us live becomingly for people who are in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, nor in sexual immorality and licentiousness, nor in quarreling and jealousy.
2 Corinthians 5:20
So I am an envoy to represent Christ, because it is through me that God is making His appeal. As one representing Christ I beg you, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.
2 Corinthians 7:1
So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.
Ephesians 4:1
So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreign-born Jews who are scattered over Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,