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MY PRESENT PREDICAMENT BEFORE GOD

My eyes are to see with so I look; my ears are to hear with so I listen, and I remember all.  I call everything to mind.
Mark 8:18 (Isaiah)
I notice the warnings all around me about the crisis ahead.
Luke 12:56
I see for myself what is right.
Luke 12:57
I am not harmed by what I eat.  I am harmed by what I think and say.
Mark 7:15-16
It’s what I say and think that makes me unclean.
Matthew 15:11
Evil and ungodly words come from my evil and ungodly heart and mind, the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires and these evil and ungodly words defile, pollute and make unclean those of us who say them.
Matthew 15:18
It’s my thought- life that pollutes and makes me foul and filthy,
Mark 7:20
For from my heart and mind, the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires come evil and ungodly thoughts against the laws of God.
Matthew 15:19 Mark 7:21
These are what defile and pollute me and make me unclean.
Matthew 15:20
All these vile, impure and bad things come from within; they are what pollute me and make me foul and filthy and make me unfit, unworthy and unprepared for God.
Mark 7:23
Murder, lust, adultery, fornication, indecency, theft, lying, wickedness, slander, deceit, wanting what belongs to others, to other people, envy, pride and all other folly.
Mark 7:21-22
All these vile, impure and bad things come from within; they are what pollute me and make me foul and filthy and make me unfit, unworthy and unprepared for God.
Mark 7:23

Some synonyms about internal pollution, defilement and corruption are displayed.

MURDER IS
The hatefully planned and deliberate killing, slaughter, homicide, and putting to death of other persons like us.

LUST IS
All craving, yearning and desiring for those things not approved by God and against his laws.

ADULTERY IS
Sexual intercourse of two persons, either of whom is married to a third person.

FORNICATION IS
Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman.

INDECENCY IS
Unseemliness, indecorum, immodesty, intemperance, impropriety, coarseness, foulness, grossness, outrageousness, impurity, vileness, lewdness (provoking lust),
lasciviousness (lust and craving), licentiousness (sexual immorality), obscenity and pornography.

THEFT IS
Stealing, larceny, pilfering, purloining, embezzlement, cheating, swindling and fraud.

LYING IS
Speaking falsely and against the truth, fact and reality.

WICKEDNESS IS
An evil eye, wrongdoing, lawlessness and ungodliness; all thoughts speech and actions against God’s Laws.

BLASPHEMY IS
Evil thinking and reasoning and speaking and writing irreverently about and against God and sacred matters.  Using offensive and obscene language in speech and writing.

SLANDER IS
False statements or charges against a person, misrepresentation, defamation, backbiting and malicious gossip.

DECEIT IS
Misrepresentation, misleading appearance, deception, imposition, slyness, pretence, sham, hypocrisy, double dealing, duplicity, cheating, fraud, trickery, cunning, treachery and betrayal.

COVETOUSNESS IS
Grasping, overreaching, excessive want and desire, hankering after, longing for, yearning for and lusting for that which belongs to others.

ENVY IS
Bitter and longing consideration and grudging contemplation of another person’s better situation, fortune, success or qualities.

PRIDE IS
Self-importance, loftiness, conceit, presumption, arrogance, insolence and impertinence.

ALL OTHER FOLLY IS
Imprudence, unwise conduct, indiscretion, nonsense, silliness, foolishness, stupidity and absurdity.
Mark 7:21-22

My inside is foul and filthy, polluted and unclean with extortion, seeking to obtain results by force or threats or oppression and greed, that is, an overeagerness to obtain food and wealth and power.

Luke 11:39 Matthew 23:25

My heart, the centre of my feelings, impulses, inclinations, affections and desires is besmirched, soiled and polluted with every sort of hypocrisy and pretence and sin, those thoughts, speech and actions against God’s laws.
Matthew 23:28
How shall we escape the judgment, sentence and punishment of hell, the home of the damned?
Matthew 23:33