Gal 5:24, 1 Cor 1:18, Phil 3:3, 1 Jn 2:15-17, Gal 2:20, Col 2:20
We have nothing to boast about except the cross of Jesus. So our worldly lusts must be crucified. (Gal 6:14, Phil 3:3)
Gal 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Phil 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
The cross of Christ is the power of God. (1 Cor 1:18)
1 Cor 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
The lusts of the world are not of God, they pass away. But there are those who do the will of God forever. (1 Jn 2:15-17)
1 Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
We died on the cross with Christ. Now Christ lives in us, and we live for Christ. (Gal 2:20, Col 2:20)
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Col 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,