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 is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

Members

Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?

Evil

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

And these things were our examples, that we should not be lusters after evil, as they also lusted.

For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

General references

If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

Also the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the cub lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its hateful things and all its abominations from it.