to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
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.
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
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.
suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
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.
and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.
For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
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