Colossians 3:5

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Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

Cross References

Exodus 37:22

Thus, both the little spheres and the branches were from the same thing: all hand-worked from the purest gold.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Romans 1:26

Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature.

Romans 1:29

having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;

Romans 6:13

Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.

Romans 6:6

For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.

Romans 7:23

But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

1 Corinthians 5:1

Above all else, it is being said that there is fornication among you, even fornication of a such kind that is not among the Gentiles, so that someone would have the wife of his father.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 12:21

If so, then, when I have arrived, God may again humble me among you. And so, I mourn for the many who sinned beforehand, and did not repent, over the lust and fornication and homosexuality, which they have committed.

Galatians 5:24

For those who are Christ's have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.

Ephesians 4:19

Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity.

Colossians 2:11

In him also, you have been circumcised with a circumcision not made by hand, not by the despoiling of the body of flesh, but by the circumcision of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

1 Timothy 6:10

For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.

Hebrews 12:16

lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:5

Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, "I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you."

James 4:1

Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

1 Peter 2:11

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

Outside are dogs, and drug users, and homosexuals, and murderers, and those who serve idols, and all who love and do what is false.