Ephesians 2:3

We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

Galatians 2:15-16

We are Jews by birth, and not sinners from the nations.

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Ephesians 2:2

You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

Genesis 6:5

Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

Job 15:14-16

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Isaiah 53:6

We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.

Isaiah 64:6-7

All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

Daniel 9:5-9

We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Mark 4:19

but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.

Mark 7:21-22

It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

John 1:13

They were born from God. It was not from blood, or the will of the flesh, or the will of man.

John 3:1-6

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

John 8:44

You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

Acts 14:16

In the past he let all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 17:30-31

God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent.

Romans 1:24

God gave them up to uncleanness because of the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

Romans 3:9-19

Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.

Romans 3:22-23

God makes people righteous through their active faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all.

Romans 5:12-19

Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

Romans 6:12

Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires.

Romans 7:18

I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.

Romans 8:7-8

This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.

Romans 9:22

If God decided to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fit for destruction.

Romans 11:30

In times past you have not believed (did not obey) God. Yet you have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

Romans 13:14

Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scriptures shut up (imprisoned) (pictured) all things (mankind) under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Galatians 5:16-24

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Ephesians 4:17-19

This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).

Ephesians 4:22

You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

James 4:1-3

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

1 Peter 1:14

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

1 Peter 2:10-11

In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy (compassion) (divine kindness).

1 Peter 4:2-3

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

1 John 1:8-10

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 2:8

Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

1 John 2:16

The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Jude 1:16-18

These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

We

Isaiah 53:6
We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
Romans 3:9
Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
Galatians 2:15
We are Jews by birth, and not sinners from the nations.
Galatians 3:22
But the Scriptures shut up (imprisoned) (pictured) all things (mankind) under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

In times

Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).
Acts 14:16
In the past he let all nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 17:30
God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent.
Romans 11:30
In times past you have not believed (did not obey) God. Yet you have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
1 Peter 2:10
In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy (compassion) (divine kindness).
1 John 2:8
Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

In the

Ephesians 4:22
You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.
Mark 4:19
but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.
John 8:44
You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!
Romans 1:24
God gave them up to uncleanness because of the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
Romans 6:12
Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires.
Romans 13:14
Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16
I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
1 Timothy 6:9
Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.
James 4:1
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?
1 Peter 1:14
Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
1 Peter 4:2
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
1 John 2:16
The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
Jude 1:16
These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.

Fulfilling

Romans 8:7
This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

Desires

John 1:13
They were born from God. It was not from blood, or the will of the flesh, or the will of man.

By

Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 6:5
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Genesis 8:21
Jehovah smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: Never again will I curse the ground because of man, for the intent of his heart is evil from childhood. I will never again destroy every living creature, as I have done.
Job 14:4
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
Job 15:14
What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?
Job 25:4
How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalm 51:5
Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.
Mark 7:21
It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
John 3:1
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
Romans 7:18
I know that good does not live in my human nature. For even though the desire to do good is in me, I am not able to do it.
Galatians 2:15
We are Jews by birth, and not sinners from the nations.

Even

Romans 3:9
Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

General references

Leviticus 11:16
ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,
Deuteronomy 16:12
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. Carefully obey these laws.
1 John 4:19
We love, because he first loved us.