Romans 6:21
But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is Death.
2 Timothy 1:9
It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,
Titus 3:3-6
There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.
1 Peter 4:2-3
and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.