Fondare 8 Risultati per: self-indulgence

• For, if with such care and indulgence you have punished your children's enemies, though doomed to death, and have given them time and place to be rid of their wickedness, (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 20)

• After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for self-indulgence, but be servants to one another in love, (Galatians 5, 13)

• Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self-indulgence. (Galatians 5, 16)

• The desires of self-indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self-indulgence: they are opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want to. (Galatians 5, 17)

• When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, (Galatians 5, 19)

• If his sowing is in the field of self-indulgence, then his harvest from it will be corruption; if his sowing is in the Spirit, then his harvest from the Spirit will be eternal life. (Galatians 6, 8)

• We too were all among them once, living only by our natural inclinations, obeying the demands of human self-indulgence and our own whim; our nature made us no less liable to God's retribution than the rest of the world. (Ephesians 2, 3)

• In these rules you can indeed find what seems to be good sense -- the cultivation of the will, and a humility which takes no account of the body; but in fact they have no value against self-indulgence. (Colossians 2, 23)