The cares of this age and the deceit of riches, and the desires of the other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth.
For, "Who can know the LORD's thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?" But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin, in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
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