Unclean Thoughts

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — 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.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— — read the full passage →

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

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

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. — read the full passage →

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

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

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

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. — read the full passage →

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— — read the full passage →

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

that I may reveal it as I ought to speak. — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; — read the full passage →

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, — read the full passage →

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

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

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. — read the full passage →

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. — read the full passage →

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. — read the full passage →

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”

At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,