Romans 7:5
For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.
Romans 6:13
Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:21
What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.
Matthew 15:19
It is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 1:26
For this reason, God delivered them to degrading passions as their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.
Romans 3:20
Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15
for the Law produces wrath. Now where there is no Law, neither can there be any violation of it.
Romans 5:20
Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:7-13
What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."
Romans 7:23
but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.
Romans 8:8-9
Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 15:56
Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
Galatians 3:10
Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"
Galatians 5:16-17
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,
Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 2:3
Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.
Ephesians 2:11
So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called "the uncircumcised" by those who called themselves "the circumcised." They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.
Colossians 3:5
So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
Titus 3:3
After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.
James 1:15
When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.
James 2:9-10
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the Law as violators.
James 4:1
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?
1 John 3:4
Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.