Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Cross References (29)

  • Romans 8:13 (56)

    For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you w

  • Galatians 5:19–21 (37)

    The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

  • Galatians 5:24 (34)

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

  • 1 Peter 2:11 (25)

    Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

  • Romans 6:13 (23)

    Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who ha

  • Ephesians 5:3–6 (22)

    But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impu

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (22)

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n

  • 1 Corinthians 6:18 (11)

    Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against

  • Ephesians 4:19 (10)

    Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity

  • Mark 7:21–22 (9)

    For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

  • 2 Corinthians 12:21 (8)

    I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea

  • Matthew 15:19 (8)

    For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

  • Romans 7:23 (7)

    But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin th

  • Romans 7:7–8 (6)

    What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.

  • James 4:1 (6)

    What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

  • Revelation 21:8 (6)

    But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and al

  • Hebrews 13:4 (5)

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult

  • Romans 6:6 (5)

    We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no

  • 1 Corinthians 6:13 (5)

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual imm

  • Revelation 22:15 (5)

    But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and

  • Romans 7:5 (4)

    For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fru

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (4)

    For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:5 (4)

    not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

  • Hebrews 12:16 (4)

    See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:1 (4)

    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans:

  • Romans 1:26 (4)

    For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural

  • 1 Corinthians 10:6–8 (4)

    These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

  • Romans 1:29 (4)

    They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife

  • 1 Corinthians 5:10–11 (3)

    I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you woul