21 Bible Verses about The Sin Nature
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You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.
for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,
People who are controlled by the physical think of what is physical, and people who are controlled by the spiritual think of what is spiritual.
You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways
The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.
So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.
It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.
Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual. Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.
Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.
For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it. Those who are physical cannot please God.
If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.
Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!
When heathen who have no Law instinctively obey what the Law demands, even though they have no law they are a law to themselves, for they show that what the Law demands is written on their hearts, and their consciences will testify for them, and with their thoughts they will either accuse or perhaps defend themselves,
I do not understand what I am doing, for I do not do what I want to do; I do things that I hate.
But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is not I that am acting, it is sin, which has possession of me.
For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace. For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.
A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.
Then death and Hades were flung into the fiery lake. This is the second death??he fiery lake. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.