Matthew 7:18

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.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

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.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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

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

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

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.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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.

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!”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,