For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of th
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spi
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is jus
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not i
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddle
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn
Tell the rebellious house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I have had enough of all your abominations, O
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wi
He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before t
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods,
You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly se
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned ea
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestab
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, no
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike A