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

Bible References

Mortify

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

Members

neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?

Evil

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,