Titus 2:12
teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,
Romans 6:19
I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification.
2 Timothy 3:12
And all who will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.
Matthew 3:8-10
Bear fruit, therefore, worthy of a change of mind;
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
Matthew 5:19-20
Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 28:20
teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Luke 3:9-13
And already also the axe lies at the root of the trees; every tree therefore which bears not good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire.
John 6:25
And finding him on the other side of the lake they said to him, Rabbi, when came you hither?
John 14:30
I will not speak with you much more; for the ruler of this world comes and has nothing in me;
John 17:14-15
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Acts 24:16
And in this also I endeavor always to have a conscience without offense towards God and man.
Acts 24:25
And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for the present; but when I have time I will call you.
Romans 6:4-6
We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.
Romans 12:2
and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Romans 13:12-13
The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,
2 Corinthians 1:12
For this is our rejoicing; the testimony of our conscience that in purity and godly sincerity, not with a carnal wisdom, but with a divine grace, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most abundantly towards you.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil life according to the will of God even our Father,
Galatians 5:24
And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.
Ephesians 1:4
as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him,
Ephesians 4:22-25
that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,
Colossians 1:22
by the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blame and without fault before him,
Colossians 3:5-9
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge the rich in the present life not to be high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who gives us all things richly to enjoy,
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas forsook me having loved the present life and went to Thessalonica, Cresces to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
Titus 3:3
For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;
Hebrews 8:11
And they shall not teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.
James 4:8-10
draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.
1 Peter 1:14-18
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,
1 Peter 2:11-12
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
1 Peter 4:2-5
that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.
2 Peter 1:4-8
through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.
2 Peter 3:11
All these things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy conduct and piety,
1 John 2:6
He that says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he walked.
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
1 John 2:27
And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.
Jude 1:18
that they said to you, That in the last time there shall be scoffers, walking in their own impious desires.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.