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.

But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.

So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.

and to have a new attitude of mind and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

Who will not fear and glorify your name, O Lord? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship you, because the justice of your sentences has now been shown."

Then the devil took Him into the holy city, and had Him stand on the tip-top turret of the temple,

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!"

for Herod stood in awe of John, because he knew that he was an upright and holy man, and so he protected him. When he heard him speak, he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

Then the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and so your child will be called holy, the Son of God.

For the Almighty has done wonders for me, and holy is His name!

in holiness and uprightness In His own presence all our days.

"Ha! What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are God's Holy One."

and we have come to believe, yes more, we know by experience, that you are the Holy One of God."

And now I am no longer to be in the world, but they are to stay on in the world, while I am going to be with you. Holy Father, keep them by the power which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.

For you will not forsake my soul to Hades. Nor will you let your Holy One experience decay.

Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you,

Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you,

"For in this city they actually met against your holy Servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated -- Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

by stretching out your hand to cure people and to perform signs and wonders by the authority of your holy Servant Jesus."

Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'

proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

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.

But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated by union with his wife and the unbelieving wife by union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but in this way they are consecrated.

Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

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.

Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.

and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

that He might present the church to Himself as a splendid bride without a blot or wrinkle or anything like it, but to be consecrated and faultless.

Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all God's people in union with Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and assistants:

by His death in His human body, so as to present you consecrated, faultless, and blameless in His presence,

So I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven holy hands which are kept unstained by anger and dissensions.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,

the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,

You must continue teaching this, and continue exhorting and reproving people, with full authority. Let no one belittle you.

All who are with me wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to all who love me as Christians. Spiritual blessing be with you all.

For we needed such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, far removed from sinful men, and elevated far above the very heavens,

For we needed such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, far removed from sinful men, and elevated far above the very heavens,

For the first or outer part of the tent, which is called the holy place, was equipped with the lamp and table and the presentation bread. But behind the second curtain is the tent that is called the holy of holies,

By this the Holy Spirit was showing that there was as yet no access to the real sanctuary while the outer tent was still in existence,

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, that Christ entered, but it was into heaven itself that He went, in order now to appear for us in the very presence of God.

Since then, my brothers, we have free access to the real sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character.

Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

"To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The Holy and True One, who carries the keys of David, who opens and no one can shut, who shuts and no one can open, speaks as follows:

And the four living creatures have each of them six wings, and they are dotted with eyes all around and beneath the wings. And day and night they never cease saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is to come."

Who will not fear and glorify your name, O Lord? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship you, because the justice of your sentences has now been shown."

Then I heard the angel of the waters say: "You are just in passing such a sentence, you who are and were, you the Holy One.

"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!"

Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you,

So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

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.

Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.