Lust

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin?

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, — read the full passage →

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace;

`Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

And the woman seeth that the tree <FI>is<Fi> good for food, and that it <FI>is<Fi> pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make <FI>one<Fi> wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

and it hath been to you for a fringe, and ye have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and have done them, and ye search not after your heart, and after your eyes, after which ye are going a-whoring;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain--to the age.

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

`Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

but it is great gain--the piety with contentment; — read the full passage →

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil,

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world, — read the full passage →

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

<FI> Beth.<Fi> With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe--according to Thy word. — read the full passage →

In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness--to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness--t sanctification,

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

He who committeth adultery <FI>with<Fi> a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when <FI>is it<Fi> again?

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

and it cometh to pass about this day, that he goeth into the house to do his work, and there is none of the men of the house there in the house, — read the full passage →

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

The good of eye--he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;