12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors--not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Romans 8:12 Cross References - CAB
Psalms 116:16
16 O Lord, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have burst my bonds.
Romans 6:2-15
2 Certainly not! We died to sin--How shall we live any longer in it?
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be in the likeness of His resurrection;
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin may be done away with, that we should no longer serve sin.
7 For he who has died has been justified from sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that also we should live together with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies. Death is no longer master over Him.
10 For what death He died, He died to sin once for all; but what life He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise you also, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts,
13 nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
1 Peter 4:2-3
2 that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
3 For we have spent enough of our past lifetime to accomplish the will of the Gentiles--having walked in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.