Verses
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- No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
- The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …
- For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- …each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
- Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- …traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,