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.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but continually be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is—what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.
31 So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in him,"If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.
32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not allow anything to control me.
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is helpful. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not allow anything to control me.
21 envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
11 For it is written, "As certainly as I live, declares the Lord,every knee will bow to me,and every tongue will praise God."
12 Consequently, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
18 Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.
1 Christ has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop attaching yourselves to the yoke of slavery again.
2 so that he can live the rest of his time in the flesh guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.
3 For you spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry.
4 They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.
5 They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
6 Indeed, this is why the gospel was proclaimed even to those who have died, so that they could be judged in the realm of the flesh like all humans and live in the realm of the spirit like God.
7 The end of everything is near; so be sensible and clear-headed for the sake of your prayers.
13 No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.
13 No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.
12 It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly passions so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in the present world
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!"
13 "You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.
13 And never bring us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.’
16 For everything that is in the world—the desire for fleshly gratification, the desire for possessions, and worldly arrogance—is not from the Father but is from the world.
9 You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
10 thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
11 That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
41 All of youmust stay awake and pray that you won't come into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak."
7 Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you.
19 You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,
11 In the same way, you too must continually consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.
13 Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.
23 Stop drinking only water, but use a little wine for your stomach because of your frequent illnesses.
34 Jesus answered them,"Truly, truly I tell you that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
8 If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
9 If we make it our habit to confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us those sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
5 For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 We know that our old selves were crucified with him so that our sinful bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.