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

General references

Job 31:24

Isaiah 11:6

Ezekiel 11:18

Bible References

Mortify

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

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

But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

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

Members

Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

Evil

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

General references

If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.

And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all its detestable things and all its abominations.