They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.
For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
“If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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