Ephesians 2:3
And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Galatians 2:15-16
We, though we are Jews by birth and not outcasts of Gentile origin, know that no one is pronounced righteous as the result of obedience to Law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:2
For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.
Mark 4:19
But the cares of life, and the glamour of wealth, and cravings for many other things come in and completely choke the Message, so that it gives no return.
Mark 7:21-22
For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,
John 1:13
For not to natural conception, nor to human instincts, nor to will of man did they owe the new Life, but to God.
John 3:1-6
Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a leading man among the Jews.
John 8:44
As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.
Acts 14:16
In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.
Acts 17:30-31
True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,
Romans 1:24
Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies;
Romans 3:9-19
What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.
Romans 3:22-23
The Divine Righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, upon all, without distinction, who believe in him.
Romans 5:12-19
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death; so, also, death spread to all mankind, because all men had sinned.
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
Romans 7:18
I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.
Romans 8:7-8
Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
Romans 9:22
And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed,
Romans 11:30
Just as you at one time were disobedient to him, but have now found mercy in the day of their disobedience;
Romans 13:14
No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,
2 Corinthians 7:1
With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.
Galatians 3:22
But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.
Galatians 5:16-24
This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.
Ephesians 4:17-19
This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,
Ephesians 4:22
For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;
1 Timothy 6:9
Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin.
Titus 3:3
There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.
James 4:1-3
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
1 Peter 1:14
Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,
1 Peter 2:10-11
Once you were 'not a people,' but now you are 'God's People'; once you 'had not found mercy,' but now you 'have found mercy.'
1 Peter 4:2-3
and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.
2 Peter 2:14
They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse.
2 Peter 2:18
With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that there is no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth has no place in us.
1 John 2:8
Yet, again, it is a new Command that I am writing to you-- manifest in Christ's life and in your own--for the Darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.
1 John 2:16
for all that the world can offer--the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life--belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.
Jude 1:16-18
These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.