Sinful Thoughts

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

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

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

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

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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

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

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: — read the full passage →

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; — read the full passage →

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: — read the full passage →

Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? — read the full passage →

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. — read the full passage →

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: — read the full passage →

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: — read the full passage →

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

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

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, — read the full passage →

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: — read the full passage →

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.