James 4:1

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

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.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he...