Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations.

'Thus says the Lord GOD, "No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.

"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, "Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day."

"In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? read more. Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,

For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.