Romans 8:13

Living by the flesh leads to death, but by the Spirit putting sin to death leads to life. Genuine faith actively wars against sin by the Spirit's power.

Cross-references · 18

• Gal 6:8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Col 3:5–8Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Rom 8:4–6that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
• Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
• Rom 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
• Eph 5:3–5But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
• Rom 8:1–2There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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