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 was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.

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.

Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

Members

and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

Evil

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Now these [things] happened [as] examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil [things], just as those also desired [them],

who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.

Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,

General references

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

And a wolf shall {stay} with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads} them.

And [when] they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it.