Titus 2:12
training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,
Romans 6:19
your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.
2 Timothy 3:12
And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Matthew 3:8-10
Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If any one desires to follow me, let him renounce self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
Luke 1:75
In piety and uprightness before Him all our days.
Matthew 5:19-20
Whoever therefore breaks one of these least commandments and teaches others to break them, will be called the least in the Kingdom of the Heavens; but whoever practises them and teaches them, he will be acknowledged as great in the Kingdom of the Heavens.
Matthew 28:20
and teach them to obey every command which I have given you. And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close of the Age."
Luke 1:6
They were both of them upright before God, blamelessly obeying all the Lord's precepts and ordinances.
Luke 3:9-13
And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which fails to yield good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire."
John 6:25
So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"
John 14:30
In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;
John 17:14-15
I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Acts 24:16
This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.
Acts 24:25
But when he dealt with the subjects of justice, self-control, and the judgement which was soon to come, Felix became alarmed and said, "For the present leave me, and when I can find a convenient opportunity I will send for you."
Romans 6:4-6
Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.
Romans 6:12
Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
Romans 8:13
For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.
Romans 12:2
And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.
Romans 13:12-13
The night is far advanced, and day is about to dawn. We must therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness, and clothe ourselves with the armour of Light.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,
2 Corinthians 1:12
For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.
Galatians 1:4
who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father.
Galatians 5:24
Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.
Ephesians 1:4
even as, in His love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world, that we might be holy and without blemish in His presence.
Ephesians 2:2
which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience--to you God has given Life.
Ephesians 4:22-25
to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,
Colossians 1:22
He has now, in His human body, reconciled to God by His death, to bring you, holy and faultless and irreproachable, into His presence;
Colossians 3:5-9
Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.
1 Timothy 6:17
Impress on those who are rich in the present age that they must not be haughty nor set their hopes on riches--that unstable foundation--but on God who provides us richly with all things for our enjoyment.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has deserted me--loving, as he does, the present age--and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Titus 3:3
For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.
Hebrews 8:11
And there shall be no need for them to teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all will know Me from the least of them to the greatest;
James 4:8-10
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.
1 Peter 1:14-18
And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,
1 Peter 2:11-12
Dear friends, I entreat you as pilgrims and foreigners not to indulge the cravings of your lower natures: for all such cravings wage war upon the soul.
1 Peter 4:2-5
that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.
2 Peter 1:4-8
It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.
2 Peter 2:9
Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
2 Peter 3:11
Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct,
1 John 2:6
The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, there is no love in his heart for the Father.
1 John 2:27
And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains within you, and there is no need for any one to teach you. But since His anointing gives you instruction in all things--and is true and is no falsehood--you are continuing in union with Him even as it has taught you to do.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil one.
Jude 1:18
how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."
Revelation 14:12
Here is an opportunity for endurance on the part of God's people, who carefully keep His commandments and the faith of Jesus!"