Romans 6:19
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19 I am using a human analogy(A) because of the weakness of your flesh.[a] For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.
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- 6:19 Or your human nature
Galatians 5:17
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17 For the flesh desires(A) what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.(B)
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James 4:1
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Proud or Humble
4 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions(A) that wage war within you?[a]
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- 4:1 Or war in your members
1 Peter 2:11
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A Call to Good Works
11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles(A) to abstain(B) from sinful(C) desires that wage war against the soul.(D)
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