'Impulses' in the Bible

and those who are in the flesh [living a life that caters to sinful appetites and impulses] cannot please God.

You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?

Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God’s] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,