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«The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith (Writer) | About: Greed | Keywords: heel, lusts, scandalize
«From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? / Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lusts
«Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lusts
«This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: / That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: / Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, / And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.»
«Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; / As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: / But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; / Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.»
«Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lusts, mortal sin
«For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: disobedient, divers, hateful, lusts, serving
«Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abode, Father of, lusts, murderer
«Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: / Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lusts, uncleanness, wherefore

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