3 As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;
3 As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;
14 Run swiftly after peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
14 Run swiftly after peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.
9 He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works,but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.
4 Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.
48 "You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
15 but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,
16 as the Scripture says, You shall be holy, because I am holy.
15 but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living, as He who has called you is holy,
16 as the Scripture says, You shall be holy, because I am holy.
3 For this is Gods will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
4 That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.
5 Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.
6 That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.
7 For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.
16 Do you not know what you are Gods sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you?
1 As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.
1 As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.
17 I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.
1 If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,
2 I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose.
3 Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.
4 Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,
7 but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.
8 More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross.
9 And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name;
10 that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend,
11 and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.
12 And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self- distrust work out your own salvation;
13 for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.
14 Do everything without grumbling and disputes,
15 that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,
16 holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.
17 Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,
18 I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me.
19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.
20 For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare,
21 for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
22 And you know Timothys worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.
23 So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me;
24 but I trust in the Lord that I also shall come shortly.
25 Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you;
26 for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.
27 And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.
29 Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him;
30 for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.
5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
2 to the Church of God at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all, wherever they are, who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.
19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.
21 And you, alienated as you once were, hostile at heart in your evil deeds,
22 he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.
23 And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.
22 You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;
23 and to be made new in the spirit of your mind,
24 and to put on the new self, created after Gods likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.
16 "When he lights a lamp no one covers it with a vase or hides it under a bed; he puts it on a lamp-stand so whoever may behold the light.
1 I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.