Colossians 3:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Mortify

Members

Romans 6:13

Romans 7:5

James 4:1

Evil

General references

Job 31:24

Isaiah 11:6

Ezekiel 11:18

Bible References

Mortify

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

Members

and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

Evil

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not

covet.”

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

General references

“If I have put my confidence in gold,
And called fine gold my trust,

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.

When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.