The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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Mark 7:21 · 31 connections
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? …
End of linked passage: James 4:3Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. …
End of linked passage: Romans 8:8Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …
End of linked passage: Galatians 5:21For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. …
End of linked passage: Matthew 23:28And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. …
End of linked passage: James 1:15They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. …
End of linked passage: Psalms 58:3Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? …
End of linked passage: Job 15:16How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. …
End of linked passage: 1 Peter 4:3The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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