Romans 13:12

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

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,

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

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

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.

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

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

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

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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.

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

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.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

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

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,

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

“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.

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.

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.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

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

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

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

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

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

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

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.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

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

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,

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!”

Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.

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

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.

I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

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

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

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

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

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

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

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

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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