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1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
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What Constitutes Disobedience to Moral Law?
... II. What disobedience to moral law must consist in. Disobedience to God's law
must consist in the choice of self-gratification as an end. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xvi what constitutes disobedience.htm

Moral Depravity.
... That moral depravity consists in selfishness, or in the choice of self-interest,
self-gratification, or self-indulgence, as an end. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxiii moral depravity.htm

Moral Depravity.
... Sin is a violation of moral law. We have seen that sin must consist in choice, in
the choice of self-indulgence or self-gratification as an end. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxii moral depravity.htm

Evidences of Regeneration.
... They are universally and only devoted to self-gratification. ... Self-pleasing,
self-gratification, self-aggrandizement, may be the end for which be lives. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxx evidences of regeneration.htm

Attributes of Selfishness.
... That is, the choice of self-gratification is not necessitated by desire. ...
In other words, it is making self-gratification the end. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xvii attributes of selfishness.htm

Attributes of Love.
... sensibility. It is a spirit of self-gratification. The ... gratification.
Self-gratification is sought as an end, and as the supreme end. It ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xii attributes of love.htm

Attributes of Love.
... But what is selfishness? It is the choice of self-gratification as an end. ...
Self-gratification is the supreme end of selfishness. This choice is sinful. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xiii attributes of love.htm

Moral Depravity.
... They consent to gratify, not a craving for sin, but a craving for other things,
and the consent to make self-gratification an end, is the whole of sin. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxiv moral depravity.htm

Letter vii. Self-Denial.
... towards others. But, if their motives were scanned, it would appear that
self-gratification is at the bottom of it. The correctness ...
/.../a practical directory for young christian females/letter vii self-denial.htm

Twenty-Fourth Day. Holiness and Cleansing.
... 'And of spirit.' As the source of all defilement of the flesh is self-gratification,
so self-seeking is at the root of all defilement of the spirit. ...
/.../murray/holy in christ/twenty-fourth day holiness and cleansing.htm

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