From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entangle, by their lasciviousness, in the lusts of the flesh, those who are just about to escape from the men that live in misconduct.

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

Lusts

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

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For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

General references

"What comes out of a man," he continued, "is what defiles him.

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.