Titus 3:5
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5 not because of any righteous deeds we had done
but because of his mercy,
he saved us through the bath of rebirth
and renewal by the holy Spirit,(A)
1 Corinthians 6:11
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11 That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.(A)
Sexual Immorality.[a]
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- 6:12–20 Paul now turns to the opinion of some Corinthians that sexuality is a morally indifferent area (1 Cor 6:12–13). This leads him to explain the mutual relation between the Lord Jesus and our bodies (1 Cor 6:13b) in a densely packed paragraph that contains elements of a profound theology of sexuality (1 Cor 6:15–20).
2 Corinthians 3:18
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18 [a]All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.(A)
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- 3:18 Another application of the veil image. All of us…with unveiled face: Christians (Israelites from whom the veil has been removed) are like Moses, standing in God’s presence, beholding and reflecting his glory. Gazing: the verb may also be translated “contemplating as in a mirror”; 2 Cor 4:6 would suggest that the mirror is Christ himself. Are being transformed: elsewhere Paul speaks of transformation, conformity to Jesus, God’s image, as a reality of the end time, and even 2 Cor 3:12 speaks of the glory as an object of hope. But the life-giving Spirit, the distinctive gift of the new covenant, is already present in the community (cf. 2 Cor 1:22, the “first installment”), and the process of transformation has already begun. Into the same image: into the image of God, which is Christ (2 Cor 4:4).
Galatians 5:16
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16 (A)I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.[a]
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- 5:16–25 Spirit…flesh: cf. Gal 3:3 and the note on Rom 8:1–13.
Galatians 5:22-23
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22 In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,(A) 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.(B)
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Romans 8:4
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4 so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us, who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.(A)
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1 Corinthians 12:7
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7 To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.
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