Titus 2:12
teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;
Romans 6:19
(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.
2 Timothy 3:12
and those who will live like Christians, shall generally suffer persecution.
Matthew 3:8-10
Let your actions then show your repentance:
Matthew 16:24
Then addressing himself to his disciples, if any man, said he, would follow me, let him renounce himself, take up his cross, and so follow me.
Luke 1:75
in the sincere practice of holiness and justice, all our days.
Matthew 5:19-20
whoever therefore shall break any commandment, tho' of the least importance, and shall teach men so to do, shall not have the least admittance into the kingdom of the Messias: but whoever shall do and teach them, he shall be great in the kingdom of the Messias.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe every thing which I have enjoin'd you: and be assured I shall be always with you to the end of the world.
Luke 1:6
they were both of them sincerely pious; observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord; with unspotted reputation.
Luke 3:9-13
the ax is already laid to the root of the trees: every tree then, which does not produce good fruit, shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire.
John 6:25
And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, master, when did you arrive here?
John 14:30
for the prince of the world is coming:
John 17:14-15
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Acts 24:16
and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men.
Acts 24:25
but as he was treating of justice, temperance, and a future judgment, Felix greatly alarm'd, said, "withdraw for the present; and when I am at leisure, I will send for you."
Romans 6:4-6
therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.
Romans 8:13
for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.
Romans 12:2
and be not conformed to the present age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may perceive what God requires of you is good, and acceptable, and perfect.
Romans 13:12-13
the night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore throw off the habits of darkness, and be invested with the ornaments of light.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,
2 Corinthians 1:12
for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.
2 Corinthians 7:1
since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Galatians 1:4
that he might deliver us from the vices of this present age, according to the will of God, even our father: to
Galatians 5:24
now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.
Ephesians 1:4
according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you formerly liv'd, influenc'd by the customs of this world, and by the prince of the aerial powers, the spirits that now actuate the incredulous:
Ephesians 4:22-25
to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:
Colossians 1:22
through his own death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreproveable in his own sight:
Colossians 3:5-9
Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:
1 Thessalonians 4:9
As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.
1 Timothy 4:12
don't give occasion to any to despise your youth: but be a pattern to believers in your discourse, in your behaviour, by your charity, faith and chastity.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those that are rich in this world, not to be elated, not to depend upon their perishable wealth, but upon the God of life, who furnishes us with every thing in plenty for our enjoyment;
2 Timothy 4:10
for Damas, out of love to this world has abandon'd me, and is gone to Thessalonica: Crescens, to Galatia: and Titus, to Dalmatia.
Titus 3:3
for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.
Hebrews 8:11
they shall no longer instruct every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
James 4:8-10
address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident.
1 Peter 1:14-18
as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.
1 Peter 2:11-12
but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your
1 Peter 4:2-5
so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.
2 Peter 1:4-8
by which we have receiv'd the most inestimable promises, that thereby you might become partakers of the divine perfections, after having escap'd from the corruption of a sensual world.
2 Peter 2:9
I say, the Lord will deliver those, who fear him, from their affliction, and reserve the wicked to be punish'd at the day of judgment.
2 Peter 2:20-22
As for those who have renounc'd the pollutions of the world, by their owning Jesus Christ for their Lord and saviour, if they are prevail'd upon to be entangled therein again, their last state is worse than the first.
2 Peter 3:11
Since then this whole system is to be destroyed, how holy should your conduct be, and how ardent your piety?
1 John 2:6
he that says he is attach'd to Christ, ought to regulate his conduct by his example.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.
1 John 2:27
but as the unction which ye have received from him, abides in you, you don't need any instruction: being then fully instructed by his unction, which is true and not fallacious, adhere to what that has taught you.
1 John 5:19
we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit.
Jude 1:18
for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions.
Revelation 14:12
here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.