But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.