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The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impu-
rity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jeal-
ousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy;
drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that
those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of Allah.
(Galatians 5:19-21)
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)

BAD CHARACTER TRAITS

But do not obey any vile swearer of oaths, any backbiter,
slandermonger, impeder of good, evil aggressor, or gross,
coarse and, furthermore, despicable person, simply be-
cause he possesses wealth and sons. When Our Signs are
recited to him, he says: "Just myths of previous peoples!"
(Surat al-Qalam, 10-15)

An evil generation succeeded them who neglected the
prayer and followed their appetites. They will plunge into
the Valley of Evil. (Surah Maryam, 59)

Gospel
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed,
and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and mal-
ice. They are gossips, slanderers ... insolent, arrogant, and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are
senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (Romans 1:29-31)