1 Timothy 1:5

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Let brotherly love continue.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Let all that you do be done in love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

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

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;