Tit 2:12, 3:3, Jam 1:14-15, 4:1-3, 1Pe 1:14, 2:11, 4:2-3, 1Jo 2:15-17 | ESV | STEP | training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions , and to live self-controlled , upright , and godly lives in the present age ,

Titus 2:12

12 training us to renounce ungodliness and ^aworldly passions, and ^bto live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in ^cthe present age,

Titus 3:3

3 For ^dwe ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

James 1:14-15

14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire ^ewhen it has conceived gives birth to sin, and ^fsin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

James 4:1-3

Warning Against Worldliness

1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions ^{▼▼Greek pleasures; also verse 3} are ^hat war within you? ^{▼▼Greek in your members} 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^jwrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1 Peter 1:14

14 As obedient children, ^kdo not be conformed to the passions ^lof your former ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

11 Beloved, I urge you ^mas sojourners and exiles ⁿto abstain from the passions of the flesh, ^owhich wage war against your soul.

1 Peter 4:2-3

2 ^pso as to live for ^qthe rest of the time in the flesh ^rno longer for human passions but ^sfor the will of God. 3 For the time that is past ^tsuffices ^ufor doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

1 John 2:15-17

Do Not Love the World

15 ^vDo not love the world or the things in the world. ^wIf anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world— ^xthe desires of the flesh and ^ythe desires of the eyes and pride of life ^{▼▼Or pride in possessions}—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And ^aathe world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.