Romans 6:21
At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.
2 Timothy 1:9
For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with our desserts, but in accordance with His own purpose and the free grace which He bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before the commencement of the Ages,
Titus 3:3-6
For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.
1 Peter 4:2-3
that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.