James 1:14

Testing And Tempting

¹³ No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God {cannot be tempted} by evil, and he himself tempts no one. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted [when he] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires. ¹⁵ Then desire, [after it] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, [when it] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.

Sin

Genesis 6:5

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

Genesis 8:21

And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done.

Joshua 7:21-24

I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold [that] weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They [are] hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver [is] under it."

2 Samuel 11:2-3

It happened {late one afternoon} [that] David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king's house, and he saw a woman bathing on her roof. Now the woman {was very beautiful}.

1 Kings 21:2-4

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard that it may be mine for a garden of vegetable plants, because it is near, beside my house, and I will give to you a better vineyard in place of it. If it is better in your eyes, I will give you the money of its price."

Job 31:9

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

Job 31:27

and {I was secretly enticed}, and {my hand threw them a kiss},

Proverbs 4:23

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Isaiah 44:20

[He] feeds [on] ashes; a {deceived mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"

Hosea 13:9

I will destroy you, Israel; who will help you?

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 15:18

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person.

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!"

Mark 7:21-22

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].

Romans 7:13

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

Ephesians 4:22

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.

James 4:1-2

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?