the world, the flesh, and the devil


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the world, the flesh, and the devil

All sources or forms of sin or temptation. My mother, a devout Catholic, sought to protect us all from the world, the flesh, and the devil as we grew up; but her strict control over every facet of our lives drove each of us to our own personal vices as soon as we were able to leave home.
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the world, the flesh, and the devil

all forms of temptation to sin.
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Alternately, we can choose to be seduced into bondage to the world, the flesh, and the devil, bowing down to him and, ultimately, abiding with him in hell forever, a fate that Lucifer, his minions, and the enslaved world have been working furiously to deny, distort, dilute, and suppress since Calvary.
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