Numbers 11:4

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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.

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

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

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

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.

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

If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

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

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

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

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.

The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

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.

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

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

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

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

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.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—

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

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

“ ‘ “But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”

They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.