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The beauty of a wife cheers the face of her husband, and rises above his desire, above all the desires of man. (Ecclesiasticus 36, 24)
Your eye desires elegance and beauty, but verdant fields are above these things. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 22)
but worldly tasks, and the deception of riches, and desires about other things enter in and suffocate the word, and it is effectively without fruit. (Mark 4, 19)
You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies. (John 8, 44)
For this reason, God handed them over to the desires of their own heart for impurity, so that they afflicted their own bodies with indignities among themselves. (Romans 1, 24)
And similarly, the males also, abandoning the natural use of females, have burned in their desires for one another: males doing with males what is disgraceful, and receiving within themselves the recompense that necessarily results from their error. (Romans 1, 27)
Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires. (Romans 6, 12)
Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires. (Romans 13, 14)
So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. (Galatians 5, 16)
For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want. (Galatians 5, 17)
For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires. (Galatians 5, 24)
And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others. (Ephesians 2, 3)