Romans 6:19
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19 I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.[a] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.(A)
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- 6.19 Gk the weakness of your flesh
1 Peter 4:2-4
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2 so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.(A) 3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(B) 4 They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](C)
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- 4.4 Or they malign you
Colossians 3:5-7
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A) 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.[a](B) 7 These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.[b]
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Romans 6:13
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13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments[a] of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments[b] of righteousness.(A)
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Ephesians 2:2-3
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2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world,[a] following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.[b](A) 3 All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(B)
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Romans 3:5
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5 But if our injustice serves to confirm the justice of God, what should we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:11
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11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ[a] and in the Spirit of our God.(A)
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- 6.11 Other ancient authorities lack Christ
Romans 6:16-17
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16 Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?(A) 17 But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted(B)
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Galatians 3:15
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The Promise to Abraham
15 Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will[a] has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.(A)
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- 3.15 Or covenant
Hebrews 12:15
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15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.(A)
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Hebrews 4:15
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15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested[a] as we are, yet without sin.(A)
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- 4.15 Or tempted
2 Timothy 2:16-17
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16 Avoid profane chatter, for it will lead people[a] into more and more impiety,(A) 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,(B)
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- 2.16 Gk for they will advance
1 Corinthians 9:8
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8 Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law also say the same?
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1 Corinthians 5:6
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6 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A)
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Romans 15:1
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Please Others, Not Yourselves
15 We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.(A)
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Romans 8:26
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26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes[a] with groanings too deep for words.(A)
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- 8.26 Other ancient authorities add for us
1 Corinthians 15:32-33
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32 If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised,
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”(A)
33 Do not be deceived:
“Bad company ruins good morals.”
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