unclean thoughts

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.

⁵and height that extols itself contrary to the wisdom of God, and leading every intellect into the captivity of obedience to Christ,

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.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹²Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.

²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, ²³and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

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.

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.

²⁰“But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man. ²¹For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²²thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. ²³All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.”

¹³For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance, ¹⁵but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy, ¹⁶for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”

¹⁹For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

¹⁸But what proceeds from the mouth, goes forth from the heart, and those are the things that defile a man. ¹⁹For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. ²⁰These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man.”

²³Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

¹⁹For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. ²⁰These are the things that defile a man. But to eat without washing hands does not defile a man.”

⁵Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body. ¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.