Joshua 7 Read This Chapter
7:21
For I saw a beautiful robe imported from Babylon, F19 two hundred silver coins, F20 and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. F21 I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest."

Psalms 119 Read This Chapter
119:36
Give me an eagerness for your decrees; do not inflict me with love for money!
119:37
Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word. F96

Ecclesiastes 5 Read This Chapter
5:10
Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness!
5:11
The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth – except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!


Matthew 4 Read This Chapter
4:8
Next the Devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him the nations of the world and all their glory.

Luke 4 Read This Chapter
4:5
Then the Devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Genesis 3 Read This Chapter
3:6
The woman was convinced. The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too.


2 Peter 2 Read This Chapter
2:10
He is especially hard on those who follow their own evil, lustful desires and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at the glorious ones F10 without so much as trembling.


1 Peter 4 Read This Chapter
4:2
And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
4:3
You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy – their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.


1 Peter 2 Read This Chapter
2:11
Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.


Titus 2 Read This Chapter
2:12
And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with self-control, right conduct, and devotion to God,
Galatians 5 Read This Chapter
5:17
The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.
5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

The New Living Translation Read This Chapter
10:6
These events happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did

Romans 13 Read This Chapter
13:14
But let the Lord Jesus Christ take control of you, and don't think of ways to indulge your evil desires.

Numbers 11 Read This Chapter
11:4
Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt, and the people of Israel also began to complain. "Oh, for some meat!" they exclaimed.
11:34
So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah – "the graves of craving" – because they buried the people there who had craved meat from Egypt.



15. Love not the world--that lieth in the wicked one (1 John 5:19), whom ye young men have overcome. Having once for all, through faith, overcome the world (1 John 4:4, 5:4), carry forward the conquest by not loving it. "The world" here means "man, and man's world" [ALFORD], in his and its state as fallen from God. "God loved [with the love of compassion] the world," and we should feel the same kind of love for the fallen world; but we are not to love the world with congeniality and sympathy in its alienation from God; we cannot have this latter kind of love for the God-estranged world, and yet have also "the love of the Father in" us. neither--Greek, "nor yet." A man might deny in general that he loved the world, while keenly following some one of THE THINGS IN IT: its riches, honors, or pleasures; this clause prevents him escaping from conviction. any man--therefore the warning, though primarily addressed to the young, applies to all. love of--that is, towards "the Father." The two, God and the (sinful) world, are so opposed, that both cannot be congenially loved at once.
16. all that is in the world--can be classed under one or other of the three; the world contains these and no more. lust of the flesh--that is, the lust which has its seat and source in our lower animal nature. Satan tried this temptation the first on Christ: Luke 4:3, "Command this stone that it be made bread." Youth is especially liable to fleshly lusts. lust of the eyes--the avenue through which outward things of the world, riches, pomp, and beauty, inflame us. Satan tried this temptation on Christ when he showed Him the kingdoms of the world in a moment. By the lust of the eyes David (2 Samuel 11:2) and Achan fell (Joshua 7:21). Compare David's prayer, Psalms 119:37; Job's resolve, Psalms 31:1, Matthew 5:28. The only good of worldly riches to the possessor is the beholding them with the eyes. Compare Luke 14:18, "I must go and SEE it." pride of life--literally, "arrogant assumption": vainglorious display. Pride was Satan's sin whereby he fell and forms the link between the two foes of man, the world (answering to "the lust of the eyes") and the devil (as "the lust of the flesh" is the third foe). Satan tried this temptation on Christ in setting Him on the temple pinnacle that, in spiritual pride and presumption, on the ground of His Father's care, He should cast Himself down. The same three foes appear in the three classes of soil on which the divine seed falls: the wayside hearers, the devil; the thorns, the world; the rocky undersoil, the flesh (Matthew 13:18-23, 4:3-8). The world's awful antitrinity, the "lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," similarly is presented in Satan's temptation of Eve: "When she saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise," Genesis 3:6 (one manifestation of "the pride of life," the desire to know above what God has revealed, Colossians 2:8, the pride of unsanctified knowledge). of--does not spring from "the Father" (used in relation to the preceding "little children," 1 John 2:12, or "little sons"). He who is born of God alone turns to God; he who is of the world turns to the world; the sources of love to God and love to the world, are irreconcilably distinct.
17. the world--with all who are of the world worldly. passeth away--Greek, "is passing away" even now. the lust thereof--in its threefold manifestation (1 John 2:16). he that doeth the will of God--not his own fleshly will, or the will of the world, but that of God (1 John 2:3,6), especially in respect to love. abideth for ever--"even as God also abideth for ever" (with whom the godly is one; compare Psalms 55:19, "God, even He that abideth of old): a true comment, which CYPRIAN and LUCIFER have added to the text without support of Greek manuscripts. In contrast to the three passing lusts of the world, the doer of God's will has three abiding goods, "riches, honor, and life" (Proverbs 22:4).