Romans 8:13
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13 For (A)if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you (B)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Galatians 6:8
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8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap (A)everlasting life.
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1 Peter 2:11
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Living Before the World
11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (A)which war against the soul,
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Colossians 3:5-8
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5 (A)Therefore put to death (B)your members which are on the earth: (C)fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (D)which is idolatry. 6 (E)Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon (F)the sons of disobedience, 7 (G)in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
8 (H)But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
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27 (A)But I discipline my body and (B)bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become (C)disqualified.
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Titus 2:12
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12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
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Galatians 5:24
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24 And those who are Christ’s (A)have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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Ephesians 4:22
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22 that you (A)put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
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1 Peter 1:22
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The Enduring Word
22 Since you (A)have purified your souls in obeying the truth [a]through the Spirit in [b]sincere (B)love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
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- 1 Peter 1:22 NU omits through the Spirit
- 1 Peter 1:22 Lit. unhypocritical
Romans 8:4-6
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4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who (A)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For (B)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, (C)the things of the Spirit. 6 For (D)to be [a]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
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- Romans 8:6 fleshly
James 1:14-15
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14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, (A)when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, (B)brings forth death.
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Romans 7:5
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5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law (A)were at work in our members (B)to bear fruit to death.
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Ephesians 5:18
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18 And (A)do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
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Galatians 5:19-21
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19 Now (A)the works of the flesh are evident, which are: [a]adultery, [b]fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, [c]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that (B)those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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- Galatians 5:19 NU omits adultery
- Galatians 5:19 sexual immorality
- Galatians 5:21 NU omits murders
Romans 6:21
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21 (A)What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For (B)the end of those things is death.
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Ephesians 5:3-5
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3 But fornication and all (A)uncleanness or (B)covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 (C)neither filthiness, nor (D)foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, (E)which are not fitting, but rather (F)giving of thanks. 5 For [a]this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any (G)inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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- Ephesians 5:5 NU know this
Ephesians 4:30
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30 And (A)do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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Romans 8:1-2
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Free from Indwelling Sin
8 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, (A)who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For (B)the law of (C)the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from (D)the law of sin and death.
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- Romans 8:1 NU omits the rest of v. 1.
Romans 6:23
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23 For (A)the wages of sin is death, but (B)the [a]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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- Romans 6:23 free gift
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