mSee Matt. 6:23 (Gk.)
Genesis 4:5-8
5but afor Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. 6The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? 7 bIf you do well, will you not be accepted? ▼▼Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. dIts desire is contrary to ▼▼Or is toward
you, but you must rule over it.” 8Cain spoke to Abel his brother. ▼
▼Hebrew; Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate add Let us go out to the field
And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and gkilled him. Jeremiah 17:9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
Matthew 15:19
19For out of the heart come hevil thoughts, imurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, jslander.Mark 7:21-23
21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, kmurder, adultery, 22coveting, wickedness, deceit, lsensuality, menvy, nslander, opride, pfoolishness. 23 qAll these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”John 8:44
44 rYou are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. sHe was a murderer from the beginning, and tdoes not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. uWhen he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.Romans 8:7
7For the mind that is set on the flesh is vhostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; windeed, it cannot.James 1:14
14But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
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