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Romans 8:13
because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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1 Corinthians 9 25
Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable crown.
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2 Corinthians 13 5-2 Corinthians 13 6
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?— unless you fail the test.And I hope you will recognize that we ourselves do not fail the test.
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1 Corinthians 8 13
Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall.
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Colossians 3:5
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
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1 Corinthians 6 12-1 Corinthians 6 13
“ Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial.“ Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.“ Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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1 Peter 2 11
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
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Romans 6:18-19
and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.
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Matthew 7:21-23
“ Not everyone who says to me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.On that day many will say to me,‘ Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name?’Then I will announce to them,‘ I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers!’
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2 Timothy 2 22
Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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Luke 9:25
For what does it benefit someone if he gains the whole world, and yet loses or forfeits himself?
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2 Peter 2 15
They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness
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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
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Luke 13:26-27
Then you will say,‘ We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’But he will say,‘ I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, all you evildoers!’
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2 Corinthians 11 27
toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.
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Psalms 50:16
But God says to the wicked:“ What right do you have to recite my statutes and to take my covenant on your lips?
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Jeremiah 6:30
They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.
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1 Corinthians 13 1-1 Corinthians 13 3
If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
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Luke 12:45-47
But if that servant says in his heart,‘ My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.
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Acts 1:25
to take the place in this apostolic ministry that Judas left to go where he belongs.”
