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James 4:1
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James 4:1
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4 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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James 4:1
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James 4:1
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Submit Yourselves to God
4 What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you?
1 Peter 2:11
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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1 Peter 2:11
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1 Peter 2:11
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Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society
11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)
Galatians 5:17
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Galatians 5:17
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17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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Galatians 5:17
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Galatians 5:17
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17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.(A) They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[a] you want.(B)
Footnotes
- Galatians 5:17 Or you do not do what
Romans 7:23
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Romans 7:23
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23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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Romans 7:23
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Romans 7:23
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23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war(A) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin(B) at work within me.
Romans 8:7
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Romans 8:7
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7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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Romans 8:7
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Romans 8:7
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7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
1 John 2:15-17
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1 John 2:15-17
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15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
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1 John 2:15-17
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1 John 2:15-17
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On Not Loving the World
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world.(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them.(B) 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,(C) the lust of the eyes,(D) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away,(E) but whoever does the will of God(F) lives forever.
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- 1 John 2:15 Or world, the Father’s love
James 1:14
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James 1:14
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14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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James 1:14
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14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(A) evil desire and enticed.
Jeremiah 17:9
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
Jude 16-18
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Jude 16-18
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16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
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Jude 16-18
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Jude 16-18
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16 These people are grumblers(A) and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires;(B) they boast(C) about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
A Call to Persevere
17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles(D) of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.(E) 18 They said to you, “In the last times(F) there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”(G)
1 Peter 1:14
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1 Peter 1:14
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14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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1 Peter 1:14
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14 As obedient(A) children, do not conform(B) to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.(C)
Colossians 3:5
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Colossians 3:5
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5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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2 Peter 3:3
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2 Peter 3:3
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3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
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2 Peter 3:3
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2 Peter 3:3
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3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days(A) scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.(B)
James 4:3
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James 4:3
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3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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James 4:3
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James 4:3
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3 When you ask, you do not receive,(A) because you ask with wrong motives,(B) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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