Bible verses about "movies" | Riverside

²² "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is clear your whole body will be lighted up,

⁹ He said further to them, "How thoroughly you set aside the command of God so that you may keep your tradition!

²¹ Test all things; hold fast the good. ²² Avoid every kind of evil.

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them,

²⁷ Pure and stainless religion in the sight of God the Father is to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. ¹³ No one must say when tempted, "My temptation comes from God." For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ Every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own passions and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.

²⁰ "But," he said, "what comes out of a man is what defiles him; ²¹ for from within, out of the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, unchastities, thefts, murders, ²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness — ²³ all these had things come out from within, and they defile the man."

⁶ does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices with the truth,

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

²⁷ "You have heard that it was said, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' ²⁸ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman with lustful thoughts has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye is a snare to you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should be lost and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna. ³⁰ And if your right hand is a snare to you, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you that one of your members should be lost and not your whole body go into Gehenna.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, ¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world,

⁵ Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry.

¹² All things are lawful for me, but not everything is beneficial. All things are lawful, but I will not be overpowered by anything.

⁸ To conclude, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is dignified, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is highly spoken of — if there is any virtue or any praise — think of that.