1John 2:16 Cross References

1 John 2:16

16: For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.

Romans 13:14

  1. But let the Lord Jesus Christ take control of you, and don't think of ways to indulge your evil desires.

Galatians 5:17

  1. The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.

Genesis 3:6

  1. The woman was convinced. The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too.

Proverbs 27:20

  1. Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied.

Psalms 119:36

  1. Give me an eagerness for your decrees; do not inflict me with love for money!
  2. Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word.

James 3:15

  1. For jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and motivated by the Devil.

Ephesians 2:3

  1. All of us used to live that way, following the passions and desires of our evil nature. We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's anger just like everyone else.

Joshua 7:21

  1. For I saw a beautiful robe imported from Babylon, two hundred silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest."

1 Peter 4:2

  1. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
  2. You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

1 Peter 2:11

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.

Jude 1:16

  1. These people are grumblers and complainers, doing whatever evil they feel like. They are loudmouthed braggarts, and they flatter others to get favors in return.
  2. But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you,
  3. that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable.

Psalms 78:18

  1. They willfully tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.

Titus 2:12

  1. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with self-control, right conduct, and devotion to God,

2 Peter 2:10

  1. He is especially hard on those who follow their own evil, lustful desires and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at the glorious ones without so much as trembling.

Luke 4:5

  1. Then the Devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Matthew 5:28

  1. But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Corinthians 10:6

  1. These events happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did

Numbers 11:4

  1. Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt, and the people of Israel also began to complain. "Oh, for some meat!" they exclaimed.

Job 31:1

  1. "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust upon a young woman.

Psalms 73:6

  1. They wear pride like a jeweled necklace, and their clothing is woven of cruelty.

Galatians 5:24

  1. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.

Numbers 11:34

  1. So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah--"the graves of craving"--because they buried the people there who had craved meat from Egypt.

1 Peter 1:14

  1. Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any better then.

Proverbs 6:25

  1. Don't lust for her beauty. Don't let her coyness seduce you.

Psalms 78:30

  1. But before they finished eating this food they had craved, while the meat was yet in their mouths,

Titus 3:3

  1. Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others, and they hated us.

2 Peter 2:18

  1. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living.

Revelation 18:11

  1. The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods.
  2. She bought great quantities of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple dye, silk, scarlet cloth, every kind of perfumed wood, ivory goods, objects made of expensive wood, bronze, iron, and marble.
  3. She also bought cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and slaves--yes, she even traded in human lives.
  4. "All the fancy things you loved so much are gone," they cry. "The luxuries and splendor that you prized so much will never be yours again. They are gone forever."
  5. The merchants who became wealthy by selling her these things will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will weep and cry.

Genesis 6:2

  1. the sons of God saw the beautiful women of the human race and took any they wanted as their wives.

Daniel 4:30

  1. As he looked out across the city, he said, `Just look at this great city of Babylon! I, by my own mighty power, have built this beautiful city as my royal residence and as an expression of my royal splendor.'

Matthew 4:8

  1. Next the Devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him the nations of the world and all their glory.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

  1. Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness!
  2. The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth--except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!

Esther 1:3

  1. In the third year of his reign, he gave a banquet for all his princes and officials. He invited all the military officers of Media and Persia, as well as the noblemen and provincial officials.
  2. The celebration lasted six months--a tremendous display of the opulent wealth and glory of his empire.
  3. When it was all over, the king gave a special banquet for all the palace servants and officials--from the greatest to the least. It lasted for seven days and was held at Susa in the courtyard of the palace garden.
  4. The courtyard was decorated with beautifully woven white and blue linen hangings, fastened by purple ribbons to silver rings embedded in marble pillars. Gold and silver couches stood on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.
  5. Drinks were served in gold goblets of many designs, and there was an abundance of royal wine, just as the king had commanded.
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