5 Consequently Jehovah saw that the badness of man was abundant in the earth and every inclination+ of the thoughts of his heart was only bad all the time.*+
5 Or does it seem to YOU that the scripture says to no purpose: “It is with a tendency to envy that the spirit+ which has taken up residence within us keeps longing”?
16 because everything in the world+—the desire of the flesh+ and the desire of the eyes+ and the showy display* of one’s means of life+—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world.+