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Romans 8:13
( for if you live according to the flesh, you will 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
Each competitor must exercise self- control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
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2 Corinthians 13 5-2 Corinthians 13 6
Put yourselves to the test to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you– unless, indeed, you fail the test!And I hope that you will realize that we have not failed the test!
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1 Corinthians 8 13
For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
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Colossians 3:5
So put to deat h whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
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1 Corinthians 6 12-1 Corinthians 6 13
“ All things are lawful for me”– but not everything is beneficial.“ All things are lawful for me”– but I will not be controlled by anything.“ Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” 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 foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
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Romans 6:18-19
and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.( I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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Matthew 7:21-23
“ Not everyone who says to me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven– 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, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’Then I will declare to them,‘ I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
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2 Timothy 2 22
But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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Luke 9:25
For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?
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2 Peter 2 15
By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
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Luke 13:26-27
Then you will begin to say,‘ We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’But he will reply,‘ I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’
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2 Corinthians 11 27
in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
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Psalms 50:16
God says this to the evildoer:“ How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant?
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Jeremiah 6:30
They are regarded as‘ rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”
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1 Corinthians 13 1-1 Corinthians 13 3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,
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Luke 12:45-47
But if that slave should say to himself,‘ My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.
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Acts 1:25
to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
