TSK · James 4:1

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,