James 4:1
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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]
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.
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Galatians 5:17
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17 For (A)the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, (B)to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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Romans 7:23
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23 but I see in my members (A)another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
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Romans 8:7
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7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is (A)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; (B)indeed, it cannot.
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1 John 2:15-17
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Do Not Love the World
15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—(C)the desires of the flesh and (D)the desires of the eyes and pride of life[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And (E)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
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- 1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions
James 1:14
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14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
Jude 16-18
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16 These are grumblers, malcontents, (A)following their own sinful desires; (B)they are loud-mouthed boasters, (C)showing favoritism to gain advantage.
A Call to Persevere
17 But you must (D)remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They[a] said to you, (E)“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
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- Jude 1:18 Or Christ, because they
1 Peter 1:14
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14 As obedient children, (A)do not be conformed to the passions (B)of your former ignorance,
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Colossians 3:5
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5 (A)Put to death therefore (B)what is earthly in you:[a] (C)sexual immorality, impurity, (D)passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (E)which is idolatry.
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- Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth
2 Peter 3:3
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3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come (A)in the last days with scoffing, (B)following their own sinful desires.
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James 4:3
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3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask (A)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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