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Galatians 5:17
For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, in order to keep you from doing whatever you want.
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James 4:1
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body’s parts?
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
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1 Peter 2 11
Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.
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Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
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Romans 6:19
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
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Psalms 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will look after me.”
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Romans 7:21
I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
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Romans 6:13
and do not go on presenting the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body’s parts as instruments of righteousness for God.
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
Indeed, there is not a righteous person on earth who always does good and does not ever sin.
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Romans 7:5
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were brought to light by the Law, were at work in the parts of our body to bear fruit for death.
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Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
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Romans 7:14
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into bondage to sin.
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2 Timothy 2 25-2 Timothy 2 26
with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
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1 Timothy 6 11-1 Timothy 6 12
But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
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James 3:2
For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to rein in the whole body as well.