Psalms 119:128

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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,

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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

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.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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?

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 the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

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.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

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

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”