So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

Dead

For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

Live

For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

General references

Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;