Then you will defile your carved idols that are overlaid with silver and your images plated with gold. You'll throw them away like disgusting objects and say to them, "Away with you!"

Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel?

The night is almost over, and the day is near. Let's therefore put aside the actions of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

Filthiness

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

I'll sprinkle pure water on you all, and you'll be cleansed from your impurity and from all of your idols."

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.

Obscene, flippant, or vulgar talk is totally inappropriate. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.

And receive

He will guide the humble to justice; he will teach the humble his way.

The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

"The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners;

seek the LORD, all you humble people of the land, who do what he commands. Seek righteousness! Seek humility! Maybe you will be protected in the Day of the LORD's anger."

"How blessed are those who are humble, because it is they who will inherit the earth!

So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

for the gospel we brought did not come to you in words only, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. Indeed, you know what kind of people we proved to be while we were with you, acting on your behalf.

Here is another reason why we constantly give thanks to God: When you received God's word, which you heard from us, you did not accept it as the word of humans but for what it really is the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.

The engrafted

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!

because we have had the good news told to us as well as to them. But the message they heard did not help them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened to it.

Which

"My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.

and by which you are also being saved if you hold firmly to the message I proclaimed to you unless, of course, your faith was worthless.

You, too, have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed in the Messiah, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in the Messiah Jesus.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

how will we escape if we neglect a salvation as great as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and then it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

General references

Learn diligently, and listen to words of knowledge.

But he said, "Instead, how blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it!"

because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.