1 John 2:16

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.