Romans 7:21

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

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,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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.

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

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

“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.

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

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

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

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

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

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

and having a great priest over God’s house,

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

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

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over 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.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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.

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

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

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

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.