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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

“You shall not murder.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Abstain from every form of evil.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,