The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, [it is clear] what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness.

2 Peter 3:11 (HCSB)

Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless;

Ps. 119:37a (HCSB)

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sights of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 (HCSB)

I also said to them: Each of you must throw away the detestable things that are before your eyes and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me. None of them threw away the detestable things that were before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them, exhausting My anger against them within the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:7-8 (HCSB)

I also said to them: Each of you must throw away the detestable things that are before your eyes and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me. None of them threw away the detestable things that were before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them, exhausting My anger against them within the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:7-8 (HCSB)

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

Romans 1:24 (HCSB)

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

Romans 1:24 (HCSB)

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

1 Peter 2:11 (HCSB)

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

1 Peter 2:11 (HCSB)

– in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will. For there has already been enough time spent in doing the will of the pagans: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

1 Peter 4:2-3 (HCSB)

Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor

Exodus 20:17 (HCSB)