Desires (2/2)

And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:8

And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8 sin dependence
Like a city breached, without walls,
is one who lacks self-control.
Proverbs 25:28 self-control

You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.
Numbers 15:39 law obedience sexuality
Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Romans 13:14 addiction Jesus body
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person's envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4 work neighbor materialism
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-28 marriage heart sin
If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:29 sin hell body
When goods increase, those who eat them increase; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:11 materialism money
You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother; also, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 19:18b-19 law love family
You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44 devil truth lying
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;
that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,
not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 holiness sexuality body
Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
Romans 1:25-28 idols sexuality
Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2:22 temptation evil righteousness