Job 20:12

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

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

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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.”

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.

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

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

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

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

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 enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

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

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

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.

When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

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.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.