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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable— who can understand it?
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James 4:1-3
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
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Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance— as I told you before— that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Romans 8:7-8
For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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Matthew 9:4
But perceiving their thoughts, Jesus said,“ Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?
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James 2:4
haven’t you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
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Acts 8:22
Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
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Ezekiel 38:10
“ This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
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Jeremiah 4:14
Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbor malicious thoughts within you?
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Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
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Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.
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Proverbs 15:25
The Lord destroys the house of the proud, but He protects the widow’s territory.
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Luke 16:15
And He told them:“ You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.
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Job 25:4
How can a person be justified before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
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Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?If God puts no trust in His holy ones and the heavens are not pure in His sight,how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
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Psalms 14:3
All have turned away; all alike have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.
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James 1:14-15
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
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Genesis 6:5
When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,
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Psalms 58:2-3
No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.The wicked go astray from the womb; liars err from birth.
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Psalms 53:3
All have turned away; all alike have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.
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Job 14:4
Who can produce something pure from what is impure? No one!
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Genesis 8:21
When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, He said to Himself,“ I will never again curse the ground because of man, even though man’s inclination is evil from his youth. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
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1 Peter 4 2-1 Peter 4 3
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
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Romans 7:8
And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.
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Acts 5:4
Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God!”
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Matthew 23:25-28
“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so the outside of it may also become clean.“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity.In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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Psalms 14:1
The fool says in his heart,“ God does not exist.” They are corrupt; they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good.
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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
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Psalms 53:1
The fool says in his heart,“ God does not exist.” They are corrupt, and they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good.