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,

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

Filthiness

draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

no, nor indecent, silly, or scurrilous talk ??all that is improper. Rather, voice your thanks to God.

And receive

Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth.

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

The engrafted

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

For we have had the good news as well as they; only, the message they heard was of no use to them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.

Which

Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

For I am proud of the gospel; it is God's saving power for everyone who has faith, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls.

General references

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

to obtain the outcome of your faith in the salvation of your souls.