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Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
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Ephesians 4:22
throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.
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Matthew 15:18
But the words you speak come from the heart— that’s what defiles you.
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Isaiah 44:20
The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He trusts something that can’t help him at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask,“ Is this idol that I’m holding in my hand a lie?”
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Hebrews 3:13
You must warn each other every day, while it is still“ today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.
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Romans 7:13
But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
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Job 31:9
“ If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,
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Job 31:27
and been secretly enticed in my heart to throw kisses at them in worship?
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James 4:1-2
What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.
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Romans 7:11
Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.
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Matthew 5:28
But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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2 Samuel 11 2-2 Samuel 11 3
Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told,“ She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
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Joshua 7:21-24
Among the plunder I saw a beautiful robe from Babylon, 200 silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest.”So Joshua sent some men to make a search. They ran to the tent and found the stolen goods hidden there, just as Achan had said, with the silver buried beneath the rest.They took the things from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites. Then they laid them on the ground in the presence of the Lord.Then Joshua and all the Israelites took Achan, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, tent, and everything he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.
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1 Kings 21 2-1 Kings 21 4
One day Ahab said to Naboth,“ Since your vineyard is so convenient to my palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it.”But Naboth replied,“ The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance that was passed down by my ancestors.”So Ahab went home angry and sullen because of Naboth’s answer. The king went to bed with his face to the wall and refused to eat!
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Matthew 15:20
These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands will never defile you.”
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Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.
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Genesis 8:21
And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself,“ I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.
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Hosea 13:9
“ You are about to be destroyed, O Israel— yes, by me, your only helper.
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Genesis 6:5
The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.