I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who ha
Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and gre
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
But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wra
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are s
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself in
But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in eve