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«And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, / And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: deceitfulness, entering, lusts, sown, unfruitful
«For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: / Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: / Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.»
«For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, / Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; / Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; / Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.»
«Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; / That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: in the flesh, lusts
«But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fulfil, lusts, provision
«But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; / How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lusts, mocker, mockers, The Apostles, ungodly
«And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; / Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: / Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.»
«For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; / And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fables, heap, itching, lusts, turn away
«But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: drown, fall into, hurtful, lusts, perdition, snare
«Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; / Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.»

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