Colossians 3:5

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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 hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

Members

Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

Evil

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Now these things were examples for us, that we might not be coveters of evil things, as they also coveted.

who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;