¹⁴ But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ^(A)murder, adultery, ²² coveting, wickedness, deceit, ^(B)sensuality, ^(C)envy, ^(D)slander, ^(E)pride, ^(F)foolishness.

²² to ^(A)put off ^(B)your old self,^[a] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through ^(C)deceitful desires,

¹⁸ But ^(A)what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

¹³ But ^(A)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(B)the deceitfulness of sin.

^20 (A)He feeds on ^(B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not ^(C)a lie in my right hand?”

¹³ Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

Warning Against Worldliness

4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions^[a] are ^(A)at war within you?^{[b] 2} You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

²⁸ But I say to you that ^(A)everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.