Romans 6:21
What benefit did you then derive from doing the things of which you are now ashamed? None, for they end in death.
2 Timothy 1:9
For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with anything that we had done, but in accordance with His own purpose and unmerited favor which was shown us through union with Christ Jesus eternal ages ago,
Titus 3:3-6
For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.
1 Peter 4:2-3
so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.