5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that ^mevery intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

21 And when the Lord smelled the ^qpleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, ^r“I will never again curse¹ the ground because of man, for ^sthe intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. ^tNeither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

7 ^oFor the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

3 among whom we all once lived in the ^dpassions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.¹

3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,