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:
Members
General references
Bible References
Mortify
Romans 6:6
For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
Romans 8:13
for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
Members
Romans 6:13
And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.
James 4:1
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?
Evil
Romans 7:7
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.
Ephesians 4:19
They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.
General references
Job 31:24 If I placed my confidence in gold
or called fine gold my trust,
or called fine gold my trust,
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
and the leopard will lie down with the goat.
The calf, the young lion, and the fatling will be together,
and a child will lead them.
and the leopard will lie down with the goat.
The calf, the young lion, and the fatling will be together,
and a child will lead them.
Ezekiel 11:18
“When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and practices from it.