he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.

Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God.

Dead

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

But far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

Live

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from 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 did not so learn Christ;