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  • A peaceful heart is the body's life but the passions are a cancer in the bones. (Proverbs 14, 30)

  • Do not give yourself over to your passions; they will turn against you and, like a bull, tear you to pieces. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 2)

  • Do not let your passions rule you and restrain your desires. (Ecclesiasticus 18, 30)

  • Do not let lust and lechery take hold of me; do not deliver me to filthy passions. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 6)

  • Because of that, God gave them up to shameful passions: their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. (Romans 1, 26)

  • Therefore, put to death what is earthly in your life, that is immorality, impurity, inordinate passions, wicked desires and greed which is a way of worshiping idols. (Colossians 3, 5)

  • So shun the passions of youth and seek righteousness, faith, love and peace, together with those who call upon the Lord with a pure heart. (2 Timothy 2, 22)

  • Like obedient children, do not return to your former life given over to ignorance and passions. (1 Peter 1, 14)

  • Beloved, while you are strangers and exiles, I urge you not to indulge in selfish passions which wage war on the soul. (1 Peter 2, 11)

  • so as to spend the rest of his life following the will of God and not human passions. (1 Peter 4, 2)

  • You have given enough time, in the past, to living as the pagans do: a life of excess, evil passions, drunkenness, orgies and worship of idols. (1 Peter 4, 3)

  • All these are discontented who curse their lot and follow their passions. Their mouth is full of arrogant words, and they flatter people for their own interest. (Jude 1, 16)


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