Lust: Evil Desire
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Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat.
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Exodus 20:17
You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.
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Job 31:9-12
If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
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Psalm 81:12
So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
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Proverbs 6:24,25
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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1 Corinthians 10:6,7
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Ephesians 4:22
That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
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1 Timothy 6:9
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.
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2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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2 Timothy 4:3,4
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;
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Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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James 1:14,15
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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James 4:1-3
From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, parties, and abominable idolatries:
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2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
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1 John 2:16,17
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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Jude 1:16,18
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
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Of the Evil of Lust, --A Word Which, Though Applicable to Many ...
... Chapter 16."Of the Evil of Lust,"A Word Which, Though ... And this lust not only takes
possession of the whole ... and honor, not in the disease of desire, as the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 16 of the evil of.htm

The Secondary Causes of Evil are Ignorance and Lust.
... This is the first evil that befell the intelligent ... man's will, ignorance of duty,
and lust after what ... mind attains the objects of its desire, however hurtful ...
/.../augustine/the enchiridion/chapter 24 the secondary causes of.htm

Of False and True virtue; and of Knowledge.
... restrain anger, to control desire, to curb lust; for this ... called anger be blunted,
all the evil contentions of ... Also, if desire be restrained, no one will use ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap v of false and true.htm

Letter cxlv. (AD 412 or 413. )
... is in the world" is "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the ... he refrains from
sin; because, although the outward action to which an evil desire prompts him ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter cxlv a d 412 or.htm

The Opposite Opinion is Approved by None of the Ancient Doctors of ...
... to a man who is regenerate and placed under grace, they assert that the evil which
the apostle says he would not, but did, is to lust or desire; but they ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/the opposite opinion is approved.htm

The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is "The Letter ...
... he says elsewhere in the plainest words: "I had not known lust, except the ... His help,
which inspires us with a good desire instead of this evil desire (in other ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 6 iv the teaching of.htm

John who was a Torch, Laid Bare and Rebuked the Wanton Ones: they ...
... R., Blessed be He Who to our dust turns us again! 9. A cause of evil is the lust,
also the greediness of the house of ... R., Our Lord perform thy desire! 11. ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xxi john who was.htm

Our Opinion is Supported by Several Writers of the Middle Ages
... fleshly or carnal because he is attacked by the flesh"if to do signifies the same
as to lust or desire"if to will good, and not to will evil, be taken for ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/our opinion is supported by.htm

The First Fruits of the Spirit
... remain, even in those who are the children of God by faith; that they have in them
the seeds of pride and vanity, of anger, lust, and evil desire, yea, sin of ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 8 the first fruits.htm

Fighting Holiness
... A heart in which such things as pride and evil desire, lust, worldly ambition, and
ill-tempers remain, is like a citadel in which traitors lurk to respond to ...
/.../howard/standards of life and service/xv fighting holiness.htm

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