Titus 2:12
instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time).
Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. You once presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to sin. Now you present your members as servants to righteousness and sanctification (purification) (holiness).
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who would live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Psalm 4:3
But know that Jehovah has chosen and distinguished the godly man for himself. Jehovah will hear when I call to him.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Ezekiel 33:14-15
I may warn someone evil that he is going to die, but if he stops sinning and does what is right and good,
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit in you. I will enable you to live by my Laws, and you will obey my rules.
Matthew 3:8-10
Bear fruit worthy of repentance!
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus told his disciples: If any man wants to follow me (be mine), let him deny (disown) himself, and take up his stake and follow me (Greek: akoloutheo moi, let him be following me) (accompany me) (be in the same way with me).
Luke 1:75
May we serve in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
Matthew 5:19-20
Whoever disobeys even the least of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. On the other hand whoever obeys and teaches others to obey the Law will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 28:20
Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Luke 1:6
They were both righteous before God. They blamelessly obeyed all the commandments and ordinances of God (Greek: kurios: God).
Luke 3:9-13
The axe is now at the root of the trees. Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown in to the fire.
John 6:25
They found him on the other side of the sea and said: Rabbi (Teacher) when did you come here?
John 14:30
I will speak no more with you. The prince of the world comes. He has no hold on me!
John 17:14-15
I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Acts 24:16
I exercise myself always, to have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.
Acts 24:25
He reasoned about righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come. Felix trembled, and answered: Go your way for now. When I have time I will send for you.
Romans 6:4-6
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.
Romans 6:12
Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires.
Romans 8:13
for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Romans 13:12-13
The night is far along and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
2 Corinthians 1:12
This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.
Galatians 1:4
He (Jesus) gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us out of this present evil age. This is according to the will of our God and Father.
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have impaled the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Ephesians 1:4
He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love.
Ephesians 2:2
You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 4:22-25
You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.
Colossians 1:22
But he (Christ) reconciled you in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and without accusation before Him (God).
Colossians 3:5-9
Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
I do not need to write you about brotherly love. For God taught you to love one another.
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man look down on your youth. Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith and chasteness.
1 Timothy 6:17
Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Hebrews 8:11
They will not teach a neighbor or brother saying: Know Jehovah. All will know me from the little one among them to the great among them. (Hosea 2:20)
James 4:8-10
Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).
1 Peter 1:14-18
Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.
1 Peter 2:11-12
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
1 Peter 4:2-5
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
2 Peter 1:4-8
He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world.
2 Peter 2:9
Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)
2 Peter 2:20-22
After they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome; the last state is worse with them than the first.
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved (destroyed), what manner of persons should you be in all holy living and godliness?
1 John 2:6
He that says he lives in union with him should walk as he walked.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:27
The anointing (special endowment of Holy Spirit) you received from Him is a part of you (is with you) and you do not need anyone (any human) to teach you. His anointing taught you concerning all things. It is no lie. It is truth, just as you were taught you live through him.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the (power of the) (under control of the) evil one.
Jude 1:18
They said to you: In the last time there will be mockers (scoffers), walking after their own ungodly lusts.
Revelation 14:12
This requires patience and endurance for the holy ones, those who obey the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Psalm 105:45
Then they would obey his laws and follow his teachings. Praise Jehovah!
Ezekiel 18:30-31
That is why I will judge each of you by what you have done, people of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah. Change the way you think and act. (Repent!) Turn away from all the rebellious things that you have done so that you will not fall into sin.