For all that is of the world, the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, are not of the Father but of the world.
So he never minded Religion more, but betook him again to the world, his lusts and wicked companions: And there was an end of Mr. Badmans Conversion.
Mountains and hills in this passage signify the proud and self-exalted desires and lusts of the wicked man, which are to be laid low because such states of heart and life forever oppose themselves to the meekness and gentleness of Christ.
And when a man loves himself more than God, and the world with its sinful lusts and pleasures more than he does his neighbor, he is carnally minded.
The meaning of my text is not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Thus by our lusts disordered into wars, Our guides prove wandering stars, Which for these mists and black days were reserved, What time we from our first love swerved.
And the world passeth away, and the lusts thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
They pronounced marriage sinful; sensual lusts must be slain in spiritual communion, then even carnal association is holy.
Stephan’s despotic hierarchical assumptions here reached their fullest height; he also gave his lusts free scope.
Lord, lay upon me all the lusts of men, that I may expiate them all!
Their ravening lusts will consume thee to the soul, O woman!
I love thee, but not like those men who, burning with thelusts of the flesh, come to thee like devouring wolves or furious bulls.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in thelusts thereof.
Mr. Brown even believes that our "insurgent lusts and passions" are predetermining causes of heresy, so that in respect both to faith and to works they achieve our damnation.
These acts were of a gross and sensual nature; for the Italian devil, born of the fleshly lusts of the people, was unable to form temptations for the higher natures, and of course his pupils were equally impotent.
Do you suppose that I myself am without the lusts and desires of life?
When we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness thorow the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.
Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies, that ye should thereunto obey in the lusts of it.
I say walk in the spirit, and fulfil not the lusts of the flesh.
Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the lord with pure heart.
And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts of it.
And these are they that are sown among the thorns, which hear the word of God, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things enter in, and choke the word, and it is made unfruitful.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will follow: He was a murderer from the beginning, And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
This first understand, that there shall come in the last days mockers, which will walk after their own lusts and say: Where is the promise of his coming?
And we shall perish with the world, if on that day its lusts are found within us.
No factious lusts reason's just power control, Nor kindle civil discord in his soul.
Now Anger and irritability are more natural than Lusts when in excess and for objects not necessary.
Sidenote:1149b] Again, a man is more excusable for following such desires as are natural, just as he is for following such Lusts as are common to all and to that degree in which they are common.
And those who saw the absurdity of this claim put you on another precipice, by making you understand that your nature was like that of the brutes, and led you to seek your good in the lustswhich are shared by the animals.
The three lusts have made three sects; and the philosophers have done no other thing than follow one of the three lusts.
And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
And, in short, even though they abstain from the act, their hearts are so full of unchaste thoughts and evil lusts that there is a continual burning and secret suffering, which can be avoided in the married life.
That loved a bull, and learned a beast to be; 7 Such shameful lusts who loathes not, which depart depart > deviate 8 From course of nature and of modesty?
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.
Can we say that a man pays sufficient regard to the dictates of modesty, who indulges his lusts in such a manner as to have no witnesses of his conduct?
He teaches: “Real faith is incompatible with any sin whatsoever; whoever is a believer must resist sinful lusts by the power and the impulse of the faith and Spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lusts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
