There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

Dead

For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

For I, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

Live

For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in the flesh has done with sin,

General references

And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,