Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that [you] obey its desires,
Psalm 19:13
Also, keep back your servant from arrogant [sins]; let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.
Psalm 119:133
Direct my steps in your word, and do not let any iniquity gain power over me.
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?
Romans 2:8
but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
Numbers 33:55
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live.
Deuteronomy 7:2
and Yahweh your God will give them {over to you} and you defeat them, you must {utterly destroy them}; you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy [to them].
Joshua 23:12-13
for if indeed you turn back and join these remaining nations {among you}, and you intermarry with them, {marrying their women and they yours},
Judges 2:3
Now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; they will {become as thorns} for you, and their gods will be a trap for you."
Romans 5:21
so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:14
For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Romans 7:23-24
but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.
Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 15:53-54
For it is necessary [for] this perishable [body] to put on incorruptibility, and this mortal [body] to put on immortality.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who are alive [are] continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
Galatians 5:16
But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.
Galatians 5:24
Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.
Ephesians 4:22
[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;
2 Timothy 2:22
But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
Titus 2:12
training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age,
Titus 3:3
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
James 1:14-15
But each one is tempted [when he] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires.
James 4:1-3
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,
1 Peter 4:2-3
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Jude 1:16
These [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.
Jude 1:18
for they said to you, "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires."