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

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

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

Members

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

Evil

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

General references

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.

And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations -- out of it.