No one has more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld nothing from me, except you, and that's because you're his wife. So how can I commit such a horrible evil? How can I sin against God?"

I obtain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. Nun

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.

Dead

For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled.

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.

But may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world!

For you have died, and your life has been safely guarded by the Messiah in God.

"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."

Live

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

Therefore, since the Messiah suffered in a mortal body, you, too, must arm yourselves with the same determination, because the person who has suffered in a mortal body has stopped sinning,

General references

In response, the people said, "Far be it from us that we should abandon the LORD to serve other gods,

However, that is not the way you came to know the Messiah.