3 Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
3 Do not let sexual sin, impurity of any kind, or greed even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
15 Instead, just as the one who called you is holy, be holy in every aspect of your life.
16 For it is written, "You must be holy, because I am holy."
15 Instead, just as the one who called you is holy, be holy in every aspect of your life.
16 For it is written, "You must be holy, because I am holy."
14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
14 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
3 For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4 each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not with passion and lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 and you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.
7 For God did not call us to impurity but to holiness.
5 Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:
16 You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?
1 Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
1 Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
9 He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own works but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
4 just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love
22 Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old man, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,
23 to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24 and to clothe yourselves with the new man, which was created according to the likeness of God in righteousness and true holiness.
48 So be perfect,as your heavenly Father is perfect."
17 Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.
22 But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life.
17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements in opposition to the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them!
21 You who were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
22 he has now reconciled by the death of his physical body so that he might present you holy, blameless, and without fault before him.
23 However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
2 to the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who continually call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours.
16 "No one lights a lamp and hides it under a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in will see the light.
1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,
2 then fill me with joy by having the same attitude, sharing the same love, being united in spirit, and keeping one purpose in mind.
3 Do not act out of selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility think of others as being better than yourselves.
4 Do not be concerned about your own interests, but also be concerned about the interests of others.
5 Have the same attitude among yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:
6 In God's own form existed he,And shared with God equality,Deemed nothing needed grasping.
7 Instead, poured out in emptiness,A servant's form did he possess,A mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,
8 And lived in all humility,Death on a cross obeying.
9 Now lifted up by God to heaven,A name above all others given,This matchless name possessing.
10 And so, when Jesus’ name is called,The knees of everyone should fallWhere'er they are residing.
11 Then every tongue in one accord,Will say that Jesus Christ is Lord,While God the Father praising.
12 And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.
14 Do everything without complaining or arguing
15 so that you may be blameless and innocent, God's children without any faults among a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world
16 as you hold out the word of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or work hard in vain.
17 Yet even if I am being poured out like an offering as part of the sacrifice and service I offer for your faith, I rejoice, and I share my joy with all of you.
18 In the same way, you also should rejoice and share your joy with me.
19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I can be encouraged when I learn of your condition.
20 I do not have anyone else like him who takes a genuine interest in your welfare.
21 For all the others look after their own interests, not after those of Jesus Christ.
22 But you know his proven worth—how like a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.
23 Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things are going to turn out for me.
24 Indeed, I am confident in the Lord that I will come to visit you soon.
25 Meanwhile, I thought it best to send Epaphroditus—my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need—back to you.
26 For he has been longing for all of you and is troubled because you heard that he was sick.
27 Indeed, he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow on top of another.
28 Therefore, I am especially eager to send him so that you may have the joy of seeing him again, and so that I may feel relieved.
29 So welcome him in the Lord with all joy, and make sure you honor such people highly.
30 For he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the frailty of your flesh. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.
1 I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.