James 4:1

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

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

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

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.

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 we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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.

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

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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

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.

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;

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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 I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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

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

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

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.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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 this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

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

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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.

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

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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;

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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

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