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 was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.

And they who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,

Members

nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

Whence are wars and whence are fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members?

Evil

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

Now these things were warnings for us, in order that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.

Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;