neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do. read more. But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good; and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not; for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do. But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me; for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul], but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members. Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.

And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ. I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before, read more. I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.

and put on the new man, renewed in knowledge in the likeness of him that created him,

Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

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

For in many things we all offend; if one offends not in word he is a perfect man, able to keep in subjection also the whole body.

do you tell him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

And now I commend you to God, and the word of his grace, who is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance with all the sanctified.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.

I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy.

but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ;

to the saints in Colosse and the faithful brothers in Christ. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father.

And may the God of peace himself purify you wholly, and your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

if therefore any one purifies himself from these [errors], he shall be a vessel for honor, sanctified, of good use to the master, prepared for every good work.

For both he that sanctifies and the sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

For they for a few days corrected us as seemed good to them, but he for the best, that we may partake of his holiness.

And when you pray use not vain repetitions, as the gentiles do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.

but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

that we may not be circumvented by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. read more. And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

Husbands, love the wives and be not bitter to them.

For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord,

And there shall not enter into it any thing that is defiled, nor any one that commits an abomination and falsehood, but those enrolled in the Lamb's book of life.