Romans 7:5
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
Romans 6:13
and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.
Romans 6:21
What benefit did you then derive from doing the things of which you are now ashamed? None, for they end in death.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech.
John 3:6
Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.
Romans 1:26
This is why God has given them up to degrading passions. For their females have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,
Romans 3:20
Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.
Romans 4:15
For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.
Romans 5:20
Then law crept in to multiply the offense. Though sin has multiplied, yet God's favor has surpassed it and overflowed,
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
Romans 6:23
For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:7-13
What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."
Romans 7:23
but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.
Romans 8:8-9
The people who live on the plane of the lower nature cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 15:56
Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Galatians 3:10
For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
Galatians 5:16-17
I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.
Ephesians 2:3
once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:11
So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands.
Colossians 3:5
So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.
Titus 3:3
For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.
James 1:15
Then evil desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is completed, it brings forth death.
James 2:9-10
but if you show partiality, you are committing sin, because you are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
James 4:1
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
1 John 3:4
Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.