Romans 6:12
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12 Let not (A)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
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Galatians 5:16
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Keep in Step with the Spirit
16 But I say, (A)walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify (B)the desires of the flesh.
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Romans 6:16
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16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves (A)to anyone as obedient slaves,[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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- Romans 6:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; twice in this verse; also verses 17, 19 (twice), 20
Romans 8:13
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13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you (A)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Galatians 5:24
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24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (A)have crucified the flesh with its (B)passions and desires.
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1 John 2:15-17
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Do Not Love the World
15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—(C)the desires of the flesh and (D)the desires of the eyes and pride of life[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And (E)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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- 1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions
Psalm 19:13
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13 (A)Keep back your servant also from (B)presumptuous sins;
let them not have (C)dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless,
and innocent of great transgression.
2 Corinthians 4:11
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11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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1 Corinthians 15:53-54
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53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and (A)this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
(B)“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
2 Timothy 2:22
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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.
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Ephesians 4:22
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22 to (A)put off (B)your old self,[a] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through (C)deceitful desires,
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- Ephesians 4:22 Greek man; also verse 24
Romans 2:8
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8 but for those who are self-seeking[a] and (A)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
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- Romans 2:8 Or contentious
1 Peter 4:2-3
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2 (A)so as to live for (B)the rest of the time in the flesh (C)no longer for human passions but (D)for the will of God. 3 For the time that is past (E)suffices (F)for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.
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Titus 2:12
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12 training us to renounce ungodliness and (A)worldly passions, and (B)to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in (C)the present age,
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Ephesians 2:3
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3 among whom we all once lived in (A)the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body[a] and the mind, and (B)were by nature (C)children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.[b]
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- Ephesians 2:3 Greek flesh
- Ephesians 2:3 Greek like the rest
Psalm 119:133
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Numbers 33:55
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55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as (A)barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
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Jude 18
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18 They[a] said to you, (A)“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
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- Jude 1:18 Or Christ, because they
1 Peter 1:14
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14 As obedient children, (A)do not be conformed to the passions (B)of your former ignorance,
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James 4:1-3
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Warning Against Worldliness
4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are (A)at war within you?[b] 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask (B)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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James 1:14-15
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14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire (A)when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and (B)sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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Titus 3:3
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3 For (A)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
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1 Thessalonians 4:5
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5 not in (A)the passion of lust (B)like the Gentiles (C)who do not know God;
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Romans 13:14
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14 But (A)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, (B)to gratify its desires.
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