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Römer 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. (niv)
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1 Korinther 9 25
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. (niv)
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2 Korinther 13 5-2 Korinther 13 6
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you— unless, of course, you fail the test?And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. (niv)
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1 Korinther 8 13
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall. (niv)
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Kolosser 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. (niv)
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1 Korinther 6 12-1 Korinther 6 13
“ I have the right to do anything,” you say— but not everything is beneficial.“ I have the right to do anything”— but I will not be mastered by anything.You say,“ Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (niv)
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1 Petrus 2 11
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (niv)
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Römer 6:18-19
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever- increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. (niv)
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Matthäus 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 who is in heaven.Many will say to me on that day,‘ Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’Then I will tell them plainly,‘ I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ (niv)
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2 Timotheus 2 22
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (niv)
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Lukas 9:25
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? (niv)
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2 Petrus 2 15
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness. (niv)
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2 Korinther 6 4-2 Korinther 6 5
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; (niv)
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Lukas 13:26-27
“ Then you will say,‘ We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’“ But he will reply,‘ I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’ (niv)
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2 Korinther 11 27
I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. (niv)
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Psalm 50:16
But to the wicked person, God says:“ What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? (niv)
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Jeremia 6:30
They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.” (niv)
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1 Korinther 13 1-1 Korinther 13 3
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. (niv)
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1 Korinther 4 11-1 Korinther 4 12
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; (niv)
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Lukas 12:45-47
But suppose the servant says to himself,‘ My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.“ The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. (niv)
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Apostelgeschichte 1:25
to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.” (niv)
