Indulgence

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. — read the full passage →

For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

and, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:—

that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; — read the full passage →

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; — read the full passage →

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come, lie with me, my sister. — read the full passage →

and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:

and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. — read the full passage →

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →

I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. — read the full passage →

when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.

After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. — read the full passage →

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods. — read the full passage →

and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

For on account of a harlota man is broughtto a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wrongfully exacted aught of any man, I restore fourfold.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living. — read the full passage →

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; — read the full passage →

All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. — read the full passage →

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink. — read the full passage →

At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. — read the full passage →

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? — read the full passage →

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother; — read the full passage →

Handle not, nor taste, nor touch — read the full passage →

And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. — read the full passage →

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →