Titus 2:12

Sound Instruction And Consistent Behavior

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, ¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

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Romans 6:19

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Matthew 3:8-10

Now, produce fruit that answers to your repentance,

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

Luke 1:75

in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

Matthew 5:19-20

Therefore whoever relaxes a single one of these commands, were it even one of the least, and teaches men so, he will be ranked least in the Realm of heaven; but whoever obeys them and teaches them, he will be ranked great in the Realm of heaven.)

Matthew 28:20

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

Luke 1:6

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

Luke 3:9-13

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

John 6:25

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

John 17:14-15

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Acts 24:16

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

Acts 24:25

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

Romans 6:4-6

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

Romans 6:12

Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions;

Romans 8:13

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

Romans 12:2

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Romans 13:12-13

It is far on in the night, the day is almost here; so let us drop the deeds of darkness and put on the armour of the light;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

2 Corinthians 1:12

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

2 Corinthians 7:1

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

Ephesians 1:4

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Ephesians 4:22-25

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Colossians 1:22

so as to set you consecrated and unblemished and irreproachable in his presence ??23 that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

Colossians 3:5-9

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

1 Thessalonians 4:7

God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

1 Thessalonians 4:9

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Hebrews 8:11

one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together.

James 4:8-10

draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:14-18

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

1 Peter 2:11-12

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

1 Peter 4:2-5

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

2 Peter 2:20-22

After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 3:11

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

1 John 2:6

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

1 John 2:27

but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie ??remain in him, as it has taught you to do.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

Jude 1:18

they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."

Revelation 14:12

This is what shows the patience of the saints ??they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.