there is none greater in this house than I; neither has 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 have obtained understanding; therefore I have hated every false way.

Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Dead

For if we have been planted together in him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection,

And not only this, but we even glory in God through our Lord Jesus, the Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

For through the law I am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

But in no wise should I glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

For ye are dead and your life is hid with the Christ in God.

he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed.

Live

For the charity of the Christ constrains us because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all are dead:

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

Since the Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also armed with the same thought; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

General references

Then the people answered and said, May it never happen that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods.

But ye have not so learned of the Christ,