Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
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TSK · Colossians 3:5
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For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.
"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."