fantasizing
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14Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away. 15Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.
8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.
22So then, flee from the desires of your youth, yet truly, pursue justice, faith, hope, charity, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
28But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
15All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted.
25Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, 20the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. 3Let each one fear his father and his mother. Observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. 4Do not be willing to convert to idols, neither should you make molten gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God. 5If you immolate a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, so that he may be appeased, 6you shall eat it on the same day as when it was immolated, and the next day. Then whatever will remain on the third day you shall burn with fire.
19Whoever works his land shall be satisfied with bread. But whoever pursues leisure will be filled with need.
3For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself. 4So let each one prove his own work. And in this way, he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another.
4For the weapons of our battles are not carnal, yet still they are powerful with God, unto the destruction of fortifications: tearing down every counsel 5and height that extols itself contrary to the wisdom of God, and leading every intellect into the captivity of obedience to Christ,