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

considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin.

for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Members

neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

Evil

Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."

now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.

who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your