Titus 2:12
training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,
Romans 6:19
I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Matthew 3:8-10
Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance you profess,
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.
Luke 1:75
in holiness and uprightness In His own presence all our days.
Matthew 5:19-20
Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 28:20
and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."
Luke 1:6
Now they were both upright in the sight of God, walking without reproach in all the Lord's commands and requirements.
Luke 3:9-13
Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree, then, that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire."
John 6:25
So when they had crossed the sea and found Him, they asked Him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"
John 14:30
"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,
John 17:14-15
I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.
Acts 24:16
So I am always striving to have a conscience that is clear before God and men.
Acts 24:25
But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."
Romans 6:4-6
So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.
Romans 6:12
Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,
Romans 8:13
for if you live by such a standard, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put a stop to the doings of your lower nature, you will live.
Romans 12:2
Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.
Romans 13:12-13
The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice
2 Corinthians 1:12
For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.
2 Corinthians 7:1
So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.
Galatians 1:4
who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.
Ephesians 1:4
Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.
Ephesians 2:2
in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,
Ephesians 4:22-25
to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;
Colossians 1:22
by His death in His human body, so as to present you consecrated, faultless, and blameless in His presence,
Colossians 3:5-9
So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
1 Timothy 6:17
Continue charging the rich of this world to stop being haughty and not to fix their hope on a thing so uncertain as riches, but on God who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment;
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas has forsaken me because he loved the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia;
Titus 3:3
For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.
Hebrews 8:11
And each one teach his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," For all will know me, from the lowest to the highest.
James 4:8-10
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.
1 Peter 1:14-18
As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,
1 Peter 2:11-12
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
1 Peter 4:2-5
so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.
2 Peter 1:4-8
It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.
2 Peter 2:9
surely, then, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from trial and to keep wrongdoers under punishment for the day of judgment,
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.
2 Peter 3:11
If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what men you ought to be! What holy and pious lives you ought to lead,
1 John 2:6
Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.
1 John 2:15-17
Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
1 John 2:27
The anointing of the Spirit which you received still remains in your hearts, and so you have no need that anyone should teach you. But just as that anointing of His teaches you about everything, and as it is true and no falsehood, and as it has taught you to do so, you must continue to live in union with Him.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Jude 1:18
because they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will live to satisfy their own godless passions."
Revelation 14:12
In this way is shown the patient endurance of God's people, who always cling to God's commands and their faith in Jesus.