because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he can
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law.
So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to d
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed ch
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love
Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are c
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law