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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not
commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a
lawbreaker. (James, 2:10-11)

... These make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil
thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false tes-
timony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean.' (Matt-
hew, 15:18-20)

He [Jesus] went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes
him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil
thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed,
malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'
(Mark, 7:20-23)

Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their
sexual immorality or their thefts. (Revelation, 9:21)

Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain

the knowledge of God [God is beyond that], He gave them over
to a depraved mind. They have become filled with every kind

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