so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
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