The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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TSK · James 4:1
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‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.