G1939–ἐπιθυμία–epithumia

but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

ἐπιθυμίαι epithumiai “desires”

He said to them, "Earnestly have I longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

ἐπιθυμίᾳ epithumia “With desire”

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his o

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “desires”

For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.

ἐπιθυμίαις epithumiais “desires”

Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

ἐπιθυμίαις epithumiais “desires”

What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said,

ἐπιθυμίαν epithumian “covetousness”

Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.

ἐπιθυμίαν· epithumian “covetousness;”

On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.

ἐπιθυμίας. epithumias “desires.”

This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

ἐπιθυμίαν epithumian “[the] desire”

Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.

ἐπιθυμίαις. epithumiais “desires.”

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

ἐπιθυμίαις epithumiais “desires”

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “desires”

I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

ἐπιθυμίαν epithumian “desire”

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

ἐπιθυμίαν epithumian “desire”

But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated from you in bodily presence, though not in heart, endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, to see you face to face.

ἐπιθυμίᾳ. epithumia “desire.”

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “of lust”

But people who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many unwise and pernicious ways which sink mankind in destruction and ruin.

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “desires”

Keep a strong curb, however, on your youthful cravings; and strive for integrity, good faith, love, peace, in company with all who pray to the Lord with pure hearts.

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “lusts”

Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,

ἐπιθυμίαις epithumiais “by passions”

For a time is coming when they will not tolerate wholesome instruction, but, wanting to have their ears tickled, they will find a multitude of teachers to satisfy their own fancies;

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “desires”

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “passions”

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

ἐπιθυμίαις epithumiais “lusts”

But when a man is tempted, it is his own passions that carry him away and serve as a bait.

ἐπιθυμίας epithumias “desire”

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

ἐπιθυμία epithumia “desire”

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

ἐπιθυμίαις, epithumiais “desires,”