Mark 7:21
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21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder,
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Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse—
who can understand it?(A)
James 4:1-3
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Friendship with the World
4 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet[a] something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.(A)
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- 4.2 Or you murder and you covet
Galatians 5:19-21
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19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,(A) 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(B)
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- 5.21 Other ancient authorities add murder
Romans 8:7-8
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7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,(A) 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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Matthew 15:19
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19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.(A)
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Acts 8:22
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22 Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
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Ezekiel 38:10
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10 Thus says the Lord God: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme.(A)
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Matthew 9:4
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4 But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?(A)
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Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness
so that you may be saved.
How long shall your evil schemes
lodge within you?(A)
James 2:4
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4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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Proverbs 4:23
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23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.(A)
James 1:14-15
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14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.(A)
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