We are to mortify the flesh and thwart the carnal mind.

Did he fancy you meant to mortify the flesh with a fortnight's fast?

Avoid swearing, mortify the flesh-thatis, don't take a third tumbler after dinner-

Our natural character is vicious; let us stifle natural desires and mortify the flesh.

He dressed for comfort and not to mortify the flesh.

We should mortify the flesh-theterrible flesh-thecurse of Adam!

They have no wives, and mortify the flesh, and-

These philosophers were moved to mortify the flesh, and to deny their social interests, by extreme caution.

Again, what use to mortify the flesh?

They tried to produce a condition of death in life: to mortify the flesh, as they called it.

I want to mortify the flesh-

On Friday morning, trying to get away from Brexit, I got on an exercise machine to mortify the flesh.

They take up no cross, neither mortify the flesh by holy fasting, but cherish and feed it as the lost heathen do.

The hair shirts in which the old monks used to mortify the flesh could not have been much before them in this mortifying particular.

Yet even in those days I believed that it was virtuous to mortify the flesh, for it is a fact that continence increases intellectual clarity.

Any where and every where it is possible "to take up our cross," to "deny ourselves," to " mortify the flesh," to "walk in the Spirit."