Ephesians 4:22

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

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.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

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

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

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

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.