Romans 7:18

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

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

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

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

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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.

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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

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.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

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

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

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

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

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

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

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

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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.

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.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

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

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

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.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

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

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.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

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

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

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

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

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

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

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 the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

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

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.

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

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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.

But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

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.

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

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.