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

We know that our old selfwas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Members

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Evil

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

General references

"If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence,

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.

And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.