It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow
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
Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of th
Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
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
Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from
who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of ligh
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you w
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and ap
For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relatio
No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from
We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead thr
So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit,
If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only
And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n
As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt
In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.