There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

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

Dead

For if we have been 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, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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

But God forbid that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.

Live

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

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Since therefore Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

General references

And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

But you have not so learned Christ;