Indulgence

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t 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 has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

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

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on 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 who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; 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 hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; — read the full passage →

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

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!” — read the full passage →

and it happen, when he hears 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.”

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look at. — read the full passage →

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — 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 plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. — read the full passage →

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your 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 dishonest gain’s sake.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to 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 reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. — read the full passage →

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

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

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

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

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. — read the full passage →

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’ — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. — read the full passage →

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!” — 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 should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? — read the full passage →

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” — read the full passage →

Every man who strives in the games exercises 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 don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →