Ephesians 4:17
Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,
Romans 1:21
Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.
Ephesians 2:1-3
And as with us so with you. You were dead in the trespasses and sins
Colossians 2:4
I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;
Acts 2:40
And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!"
Acts 14:15
shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.
Acts 18:5
By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.
Acts 20:21
bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:23-32
they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.
1 Corinthians 1:12
By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites
1 Corinthians 15:50
I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable.
2 Corinthians 9:6
Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest.
Galatians 3:17
My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.
Galatians 5:3
I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,
Ephesians 4:22
you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,
Ephesians 5:3-8
Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;
Colossians 2:18
Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,
Colossians 3:5-8
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
1 Thessalonians 4:1-2
Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.
1 Timothy 5:21
In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.
1 Timothy 6:13
In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you
2 Timothy 4:1
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,
1 Peter 1:18
you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,
1 Peter 4:3-4
It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,
2 Peter 2:18
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).