I will do these things to you ¹  because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

but ¹  worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, ²  and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, ³  and it produces nothing.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries ¹  someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

But ¹  among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, ²  or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints. ³ 

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For some of these insinuate themselves ¹  into households and captivate weak women ²  who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

It trains us ¹  to reject godless ways ²  and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Where do the conflicts and where ¹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²  from your passions that battle inside you? ³ 

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Their eyes, ¹  full of adultery, ²  never stop sinning; ³  they entice ⁴  unstable people. ⁵  They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! ⁶ 

This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because your lust ¹  was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

and throw ¹  your gold ²  in the dust – your gold ³  of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –

Do you want to really live? ¹  Would you love to live a long, happy life? ² 

Cut sharply on the right! Swing to ¹  the left, wherever your edge ²  is appointed to strike.

They had sex with her ¹  as one does with a prostitute. In this way they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Now the works of the flesh ¹  are obvious: ²  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Now those who belong to Christ ¹  have crucified the flesh ²  with its passions ³  and desires.

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow ¹  after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness. ²