Mark 7:21
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21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
James 4:1-3
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4 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
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Galatians 5:19-21
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19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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Romans 8:7-8
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7 For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. 8 That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.
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Matthew 15:19
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19 For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
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Acts 8:22
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22 Repent of your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts,
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Ezekiel 38:10
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10 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you will devise a wicked scheme.
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Matthew 9:4
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4 Jesus knew[a] what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts?
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- 9:4 Some manuscripts read saw.
Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart
that you may be saved.
How long will you harbor
your evil thoughts?
James 2:4
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4 doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?
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Proverbs 4:23
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23 Guard your heart above all else,
for it determines the course of your life.
James 1:14-15
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14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. 15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.
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Luke 16:15
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15 Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God.
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Matthew 23:25-28
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25 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! 26 You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish,[a] and then the outside will become clean, too.
27 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. 28 Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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- 23:26 Some manuscripts do not include and the dish.
Isaiah 59:7
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7 Their feet run to do evil,
and they rush to commit murder.
They think only about sinning.
Misery and destruction always follow them.
Proverbs 15:25
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25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud,
but he protects the property of widows.
Psalm 58:2-3
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2 No! You plot injustice in your hearts.
You spread violence throughout the land.
3 These wicked people are born sinners;
even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
Psalm 53:3
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3 But no, all have turned away;
all have become corrupt.[a]
No one does good,
not a single one!
Psalm 14:3
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3 But no, all have turned away;
all have become corrupt.[a]
No one does good,
not a single one!
1 Peter 4:2-3
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2 You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God. 3 You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
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Romans 7:8
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8 But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.
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Acts 5:4
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4 The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was also yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us but to God!”
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Psalm 14:1
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Psalm 14
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 Only fools say in their hearts,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
not one of them does good!
Job 25:4
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4 How can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone born of a woman be pure?
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