Colossians 3:5 Cross References - Mace

⁵ Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

¹⁹ out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

²¹ for from within, from the heart of man proceed wicked designs, adulteries, fornications, murders; thefts, ²² avarice, malice, fraud, impudence, envy, scandal, pride, vanity.

²⁶ amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:

²⁹ they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;

⁶ considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin.

¹³ neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.

⁵ for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

⁷ Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet." ⁸ but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. for before the law sin appear'd dead.

²³ but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.

¹³ for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

¹ we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

¹⁰ I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world. ¹¹ but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor raparees, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹³ "meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

¹⁸ flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

⁶ now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did. ⁷ be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." ⁸ neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

²¹ and I am afraid, God will humble me when I come again among you, and I shall bewail many who have formerly sinned, and have not yet repented of their impurity, their fornication, and dissoluteness.

¹⁹ now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness, ²⁰ brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings, ²¹ drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁴ now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

¹⁹ who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.

³ But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry, ⁴ nor buffoonry, which they call pleasantry, but is indecent: be you rather exercised in social virtue. ⁵ for this you know, that no licentious or dissolute person, no lewd libertine, that is, an idolater, hath any part in the kingdom of Christ, and of God. ⁶ let no man mislead you by vain reasonings: for it is for these vices, that the wrath of God lights upon the incredulous.

³ and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

⁵ person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

¹⁶ let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess."

⁴ Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.

¹ you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

¹¹ but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

⁸ but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death."

¹⁵ "but without are the execrable, the poisoners, the licentious, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who are pleas'd with, or practise deceit.