Romans 6:13
and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.
Romans 7:5
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
Romans 12:1
I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Colossians 3:5
So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.
1 Peter 2:24
He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,
Romans 6:16
Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
James 3:5-6
So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!
Romans 6:11
So you too must consider yourselves as having ended your relation to sin but living in unbroken relation to God.
1 Peter 4:2
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.
Luke 15:24
because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.
Luke 15:32
But we just had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found.'"
John 5:24
"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.
Romans 1:29
because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;
Romans 2:8-9
but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,
Romans 7:23
but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice
1 Corinthians 6:15
Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ Himself? Then may I take away parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!
1 Corinthians 6:20
for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.
2 Corinthians 5:15
and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
2 Corinthians 8:5
They did not do as I expected but even more; they first by God's will gave themselves to the Lord, and then to me;
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons used in my warfare are not mere human ones, but through my God are mighty for demolishing fortresses.
Ephesians 2:5
has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.
Ephesians 5:14
So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."
Philippians 1:20
in accordance with my eager expectation and hope that I shall never disgrace myself, but that now as always hitherto, by my all-conquering courage, whether by living or dying, Christ will be honored in me.
Colossians 2:13
Yes, although you were dead through your shortcomings and were physically uncircumcised, God made you live again through fellowship with Christ. He graciously forgave us all our shortcomings,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have chosen unrighteousness instead might be condemned.
James 4:1
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
2 Peter 2:13-15
They think their daily luxurious living real pleasure; they are spots and blots, deceitfully living in luxurious pleasure while they continue their religious feasting with you.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.