Sentences with phrase «evil desires»

The soul takes up a temporary dwelling in a «body» which functions as a prison and as the source of evil desires and suffering.

In 2 Peter 3:3 - 7, he returns to the topic of the flood to make his point once again about how God will deal with people who follow their own evil desires in the last days.

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

John Climacus says, «Fasting ends lust, roots out bad thoughts, frees one from evil desires.»

In the parable of the sower Jesus warns against the false values: «but worldly cares and the false glamour of wealth and all kinds of evil desire come in and choke the world and it proves barren» Mark 4:19.

-- But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts.

[5] Certainly, there are still evil desires within us, but the solution to overcoming them is not to get rid of all desire, but rather, to discern between desires.

With his horns comes the disturbing gift of getting anyone near him to reveal their darkest secrets and innermost evil desires.

First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

2Ti 3:6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak - willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 2Ti 3:7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

The evil desire to invalidate someone — to make them somehow less than me and therefore less able to share in the blessings of God — is the opposite of the wisdom that comes from heaven, which is full of mercy AND impartiality (James 3:16).

He had no evil desires.

«But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.

14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.

«Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Matthew 24:4 - 5 It is sad that so many use something so wonderful for their own perverted and evil desires.

Indeed, there is hardly any public person in America today who has more exemplified the «earthly nature» («flesh» in the King James and the literal Greek) that Paul urges the Colossians to shed: «sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry» (3:5).

I like the idea of «giving up» of people to their evil desires.

But even in relatively «civil» countries, mens hearts are full of evil desires, they desire to do evil things.

For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever.

For God can not be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.

«These people are grumblers and fault finders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.»

Like many people who are not Christians, they pick and chose scripture when it applies to their own evil desires.

2ND Peter 3:3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Man's evil desires must be accorded the most significant role in temptation.

A same - sex couple is suing a printing company after discovering a box of wedding programs they ordered actually contained Christian flyers which warned about «evil desires».

2 Peter 3 3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

Evil desire, greed, covetousness, thirst for honor, thirst for power, egotism.

Temptation plays to the evil desires and idolatrous cravings that still live in my heart.

Frozen under a wicked enchantment from the White Witch (Tilda Swinton), the inhabitants live either in mortal dread of the self - appointed Queen, or as faithful servants to her evil desires.