2 Peter 1:4

Greeting

³ For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him. ⁴ Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature. ⁵ For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

Desires of the Flesh

In the World

Of the Flesh

Hebrews 12:10

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

2 Peter 2:18-20

They utter arrogant nonsense and use physical cravings to lure into immorality men who are just escaping from among those who live in error;

John 1:12-13

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

2 Corinthians 6:17-1

Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

Ephesians 4:23-24

You must adopt a new attitude of mind,

Romans 9:4

For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,

2 Corinthians 1:20

for to all the promises of God he supplies the "Yes" that confirms them. That is why we utter the "Amen" through him, when we give glory to God.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and his line. It does not say, "and to your lines," in the plural, but in the singular, "and to your line," that is, Christ.

Galatians 6:8

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

Hebrews 8:6-12

But, as it is, the priestly service to which Christ has been appointed is as much better than the old as the agreement established by him and the promises on which it is based are superior to the former ones.

Hebrews 9:15

And this is why he is the negotiator of a new agreement, in order that as someone has died to deliver them from the offenses committed under the old agreement, those who have been offered it may receive the unending inheritance they have been promised.

James 4:1-3

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

1 Peter 4:2-3

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours;

1 John 2:15-16

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

1 John 2:25

And what he himself has promised us is eternal life.