13 (A)Let us walk [a]properly, as in the day, (B)not in revelry and drunkenness, (C)not in lewdness and lust, (D)not in strife and envy.

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  1. Romans 13:13 decently

21 envy, [a]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that (A)those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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  1. Galatians 5:21 NU omits murders

18 And (A)do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

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12 (A)that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

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(A)He who says he abides in Him (B)ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

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For this is (A)the will of God, (B)your sanctification: (C)that you should abstain from sexual immorality; (D)that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, (E)not in passion of lust, (F)like the Gentiles (G)who do not know God;

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Walk in Wisdom

15 (A)See then that you walk [a]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

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  1. Ephesians 5:15 carefully

For we have spent enough of our past [a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. They will give an account to Him who is ready (A)to judge the living and the dead.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:3 NU time

The Importance of Watching(A)

34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

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  1. Luke 21:34 dissipation

23 but (A)others save [a]with fear, (B)pulling them out of the [b]fire, hating even (C)the garment defiled by the flesh.

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  1. Jude 1:23 NU omits with fear
  2. Jude 1:23 NU adds and on some have mercy with fear

Deceptions of False Teachers

18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who [a]have actually escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of [b]corruption; (A)for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into [c]bondage. 20 For if, after they (B)have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are (C)again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:18 NU are barely escaping
  2. 2 Peter 2:19 depravity
  3. 2 Peter 2:19 slavery

Our Inheritance Through Christ’s Blood

Therefore, (A)laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, (B)as newborn babes, desire the pure (C)milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby,

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  1. 1 Peter 2:2 NU adds up to salvation

Striving and Suffering for Christ

27 Only (A)let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, (B)with one mind (C)striving together for the faith of the gospel,

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Walk in Christ’s Commandments

I (A)rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.

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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, (A)“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

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14 But if you have (A)bitter envy and [a]self-seeking in your hearts, (B)do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 (C)This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For (D)where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

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  1. James 3:14 selfish ambition

(A)Therefore put to death (B)your members which are on the earth: (C)fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (D)which is idolatry.

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10 (A)that you may walk worthy of the Lord, (B)fully pleasing Him, (C)being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the (D)knowledge of God;

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(A)Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but (B)in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

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25 (A)If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 (B)Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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13 (A)and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure (B)to [a]carouse in the daytime. (C)They are spots and blemishes, [b]carousing in their own deceptions while (D)they feast with you, 14 having eyes full of [c]adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. (E)They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:13 revel
  2. 2 Peter 2:13 reveling
  3. 2 Peter 2:14 Lit. an adulteress

Living Before the World

11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (A)which war against the soul, 12 (B)having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, (C)they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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Meditate on These Things

Finally, brethren, whatever things are (A)true, whatever things are (B)noble, whatever things are (C)just, (D)whatever things are pure, whatever things are (E)lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and (F)the God of peace will be with you.

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