Romans 8:13
for if you live by such a standard, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put a stop to the doings of your lower nature, you will live.
Galatians 6:8
The person who sows to gratify his lower nature will reap destruction from that lower nature, and the person who sows to gratify his higher nature will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
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.
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 7:5
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 8:1-2
So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:4-6
so that the requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live by the standard set by our lower nature, but by the standard set by the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep on beating and bruising my body and making it my slave, so that I, after I have summoned others to the race, may not myself become unfit to run.
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 4:22
to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;
Ephesians 4:30
You must stop offending the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been stamped for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 5:3-5
But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;
Ephesians 5:18
Stop getting drunk on wine, for that means profligacy, but ever be filled with the Spirit,
Colossians 3:5-8
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 2:12
training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,
James 1:14-15
But anyone is tempted to do evil when he is allured by his own evil desire and enticed by a bait.
1 Peter 1:22
Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.