Colossians 3:5

Believers must put to death the earthly sins of immorality, impurity, and greed, which is idolatry. New life requires decisive war on sin.

Cross-references · 29

• Rom 8:13For 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.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• 1 Pet 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Rom 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
• 1 Cor 6:9–10Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• Eph 5:3–6But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• 1 Cor 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• Eph 4:19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Mark 7:21–22For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• 2 Cor 12:21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Rom 7:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
• Rom 7:7–8What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
• Jas 4:1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• 1 Cor 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• Heb 13:4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• Rom 6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
• Rom 1:26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
• Heb 12:16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• 1 Th 4:5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Rom 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• 1 Cor 10:6–8Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
• 1 Cor 5:1It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
• 1 Cor 5:10–11Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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