Romans 7:19

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.

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

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.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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?”

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.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

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

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

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

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

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

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.”

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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.

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

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

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

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

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.

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

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

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.

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

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.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

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.

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

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

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.

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

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

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

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

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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.

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;

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?

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

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.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

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

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.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

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

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.