This is just some random things I read from the Bible and other places in my study on how Grace helps me in the fight against sin. Forgive me for not listing all my sources and also for not arranging my thoughts (when I thought to publish it it was just for the blog randomgleaning.blogspot.com, so understand the randomness of it). Sorry.
Titus 2.11 - for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controled, upright and godly.
Romans 8.13 - if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body you shall live.
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, aught yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.
The vigor, and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 15.34 - awake to righteousness and sin not.
The mortification of indwelling sin remains in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works of deeds of the flesh, is the constant duty of the believer.
1 Peter 1.16 - be ye holy for I am holy
Romans 12.1 - present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whiles you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it be killing you. Your being dead with Christ virtually, your being quickened with Him will not excuse you from this work.
There is a propensity in the Spirit, or spiritual new nature to be acting against the flesh, as well as in the flesh to be acting against the Spirit (2 Peter 1.4,5).
1 Corinthians 5.7 - purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lumb.
Not to be daily mortifying sin is to sin against the goodness, wisdom, kindness, grace and love of God, who has furnished us with a principle of doing it.
Negligence in this duty casts the soul into a perfect contrary condition to which the apostle affirms was his "though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4.16).
2 Timothy 2.19 - let everyone that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.
Titus 2.12 - denying ungodliness and worldy lusts ..... live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.
2 Peter 3.14 - be deligent that ye may be found in Him in peace, without spot and blameless.
Romans 13.14 - put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lust thereof.
Where sin, through the neglect of mortification, gets a considerable victory, it breaks the bones of the soul (Psalm 31.10, 51.8) and makes a man weak, sick and ready to die (Psalm 38.3-5) so that he cannot look up (Psalm 40.12, Isaiah 33.24); and when poor creatures will take blow after blow, wound after wound, foil after foil, and never rouse up themselves to a vigorous oppossiting, can they expect anything but to be hardened throught the deceitfulness and sin, and that their souls should bleed to death (2 John 8)?
1 Peter 2.11 - I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshy lusts which war against the soul.
Titus 2.11 - for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controled, upright and godly.
Romans 8.13 - if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body you shall live.
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, aught yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.
The vigor, and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 15.34 - awake to righteousness and sin not.
The mortification of indwelling sin remains in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works of deeds of the flesh, is the constant duty of the believer.
1 Peter 1.16 - be ye holy for I am holy
Romans 12.1 - present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whiles you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it be killing you. Your being dead with Christ virtually, your being quickened with Him will not excuse you from this work.
There is a propensity in the Spirit, or spiritual new nature to be acting against the flesh, as well as in the flesh to be acting against the Spirit (2 Peter 1.4,5).
1 Corinthians 5.7 - purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lumb.
Not to be daily mortifying sin is to sin against the goodness, wisdom, kindness, grace and love of God, who has furnished us with a principle of doing it.
Negligence in this duty casts the soul into a perfect contrary condition to which the apostle affirms was his "though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4.16).
2 Timothy 2.19 - let everyone that nameth the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.
Titus 2.12 - denying ungodliness and worldy lusts ..... live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.
2 Peter 3.14 - be deligent that ye may be found in Him in peace, without spot and blameless.
Romans 13.14 - put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lust thereof.
Where sin, through the neglect of mortification, gets a considerable victory, it breaks the bones of the soul (Psalm 31.10, 51.8) and makes a man weak, sick and ready to die (Psalm 38.3-5) so that he cannot look up (Psalm 40.12, Isaiah 33.24); and when poor creatures will take blow after blow, wound after wound, foil after foil, and never rouse up themselves to a vigorous oppossiting, can they expect anything but to be hardened throught the deceitfulness and sin, and that their souls should bleed to death (2 John 8)?
1 Peter 2.11 - I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshy lusts which war against the soul.
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