9 because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.
8 And those whose hearts are absorbed in earthly things cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.
7 But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.
20 We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 who, in the exercise of the power which He has even to subject all things to Himself, will transform this body of our humiliation until it resembles His own glorious body.
7 For the Spirit which God has given us is not a spirit of cowardice, but one of power and of love and of sound judgement.
8 Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
9 Withstand him, firm in your faith; knowing that your brethren in other parts of the world are passing through just the same experiences.
22 The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;
23 good faith, meekness, self-restraint.
20 when He displayed it in Christ by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His own right hand in the heavenly realms,
21 high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come.
24 Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
25 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
26 That is how I run, not being in any doubt as to my goal. I am a boxer who does not inflict blows on the air,
27 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
11 For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,
12 training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,
13 in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope–the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
9 If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.
4 that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;
5 that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
13 It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the Kingdom of His dearly-loved Son,
14 in whom we have our redemption–the forgiveness of our sins.
5 But for this very reason –adding, on your part, all earnestness– along with your faith, manifest also a noble character: along with a noble character, knowledge;
6 along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;
7 along with power of endurance, godliness; along with godliness, brotherly affection; and along with brotherly affection, love.
1 Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same –because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin–
2 that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.
3 For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in– pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.
4 At this they are astonished–that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.
5 But they will have to give account to Him who stands ready to pronounce judgement on the living and the dead.
22 For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again.
23 But this will happen to each in the right order–Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.
24 Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.
25 For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet.
13 No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.