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1 Peter 1 14
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
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Ephesians 4:22-24
to take off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,and to put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.
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2 Corinthians 5 17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
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Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.
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1John 2:15-17
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Ephesians 5:17
So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
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Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
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Romans 12:1
Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.
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1 Peter 4 2
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
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John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
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Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to gratify its desires.
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Titus 3:5
he saved us— not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy— through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
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Psalms 51:10
God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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James 4:4
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
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2 Corinthians 4 4
In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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Proverbs 3:1-4
My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commands;for they will bring you many days, a full life, and well-being.Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.Then you will find favor and high regard with God and people.
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Ephesians 4:17-20
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.But that is not how you came to know Christ,
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John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
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Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.
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2 Peter 1 4
By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.
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Colossians 1:21-22
Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions.But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him—
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Ezekiel 18:31
Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?
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James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
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Psalms 34:8
Taste and see that the LORD is good. How happy is the person who takes refuge in him!
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Psalms 19:7-11
The instruction of the LORD is perfect, renewing one’s life; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making the inexperienced wise.The precepts of the LORD are right, making the heart glad; the command of the LORD is radiant, making the eyes light up.The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are reliable and altogether righteous.They are more desirable than gold— than an abundance of pure gold; and sweeter than honey dripping from a honeycomb.In addition, your servant is warned by them, and in keeping them there is an abundant reward.
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1 Thessalonians 4 3
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,
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1 John 4 4-1 John 4 5
You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.
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1 John 3 13
Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
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2 Timothy 3 16-2 Timothy 3 17
All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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1John 5:19
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Psalms 119:174
I long for your salvation, LORD, and your instruction is my delight.
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Ephesians 2:2
in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
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Ephesians 5:9-10
for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth—testing what is pleasing to the Lord.
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2 Peter 2 20
For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.
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Proverbs 3:13-18
Happy is a man who finds wisdom and who acquires understanding,for she is more profitable than silver, and her revenue is better than gold.She is more precious than jewels; nothing you desire can equal her.Long life is in her right hand; in her left, riches and honor.Her ways are pleasant, and all her paths, peaceful.She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who hold on to her are happy.
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1 Peter 2 3
if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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Ephesians 1:18
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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1 Corinthians 3 19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;
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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it— that its works are evil.
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Psalms 119:47-48
I delight in your commands, which I love.I will lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and will meditate on your statutes.
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Psalms 119:72
Instruction from your lips is better for me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
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Galatians 1:4
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
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Leviticus 18:29-30
Any person who does any of these detestable practices is to be cut off from his people.You must keep my instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the LORD your God.”
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Psalms 119:128
I carefully follow all your precepts and hate every false way.
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Romans 7:12
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
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Psalms 119:97
How I love your instruction! It is my meditation all day long.
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Revelation 13:8
All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.
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Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.
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Deuteronomy 18:9-14
“ When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.No one among you is to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery,cast spells, consult a medium or a spiritist, or inquire of the dead.Everyone who does these acts is detestable to the LORD, and the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable acts.You must be blameless before the LORD your God.Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do this.
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Romans 7:22
For in my inner self I delight in God’s law,
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2 Corinthians 6 14-2 Corinthians 6 17
Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.
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Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave under sin.
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1 Peter 1 18
For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
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Psalms 119:103
How sweet your word is to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth.
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Exodus 23:2
“ You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.
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John 14:30
I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me.
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Revelation 12:9
So the great dragon was thrown out— the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.