Do you mortify;
do you make it your daily work;
be always at it while you live;
cease not a day from this work;
be killing sin or it will be killing you.
~John Owen~
Overcoming Sin & Temptation (Wheaton, IL; Crossway Books; 2006) p. 50.
Owen – On Killing Sin
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