Romans 8:13

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For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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1 Peter 2:11

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Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.

what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

he that soweth to his vices, shall reap the deadly fruit of his vices; but he that sows to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

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for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

but I mortify my body, and bring it into subjection: lest after having been a herald to others, I my self should be thrown out.

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

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Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.

grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom you are sealed against the day of deliverance:

do not drink to excess, for that tends to dissoluteness, but be regal'd with spiritual entertainments:

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;