Bible Verses about 'Nature'

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• So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature.
  2 Peter 1:4rewarddesiresworld
• Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse.
  Romans 1:20creationstrengthmind
• You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
  John 8:44devildesirestruth
• Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  Galatians 6:8sineternal lifeSpirit
• Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.
  Colossians 3:9-10lyinglifeconversion
• We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.
  Galatians 2:15-16faithlawrighteousness
• Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpiritdesires
• To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
  Romans 8:6Spiritpeacelife
• For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.
  Galatians 5:17obedienceSpirit
• Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
  Romans 1:25-28idolssexualitydesires
• Who, though he was in the form of God,
  did not regard equality with God
  as something to be exploited,
  but emptied himself,
  taking the form of a slave,
  being born in human likeness.
  And being found in human form,
  he humbled himself
  and became obedient to the point of death—
  even death on a cross.
  Philippians 2:6-8SaviorobedienceJesus
• For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
  Romans 8:5lifebodySpirit
• If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
  Luke 11:13Spiritprayerfamily
• For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.
  Galatians 5:13freedomhumilitydesires
• He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  Hebrews 1:3sinpurificationWord of God
• Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality