Leviticus 13:47

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

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

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

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

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

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.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

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

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.

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;

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

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

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

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,

Abstain from every form of evil.

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

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be.

The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.