Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin [resulting] in death, or of obedience [resulting] in righteousness?

I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawlessness [resulting] in [more] lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness [resulting] in sanctification.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

But I see a different law in my members, waging war with the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make [them] members of a harlot? Certainly not!

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Even so the tongue is a small member and it boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty by God to the pulling down of strongholds,

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

But to those who are contentious, and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

For everyone that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord your God, even everyone that does injustice.

Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us; therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.

Woe to the transgressor! Evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

For all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are Mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness, counting as a pleasure to revel in the daytime, [they are] spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you,

They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

And now harden not your hearts, as your fathers [did]; give glory to the Lord God, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, and He shall turn away [His] fierce anger from you.

And King Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, who has sent His angel, and delivered His servants, because they trusted in Him; and they have changed the king's word, and delivered their bodies to be burned, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and not as we hoped, but they first gave their own selves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God,

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be ashamed, but with utmost boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Likewise you also, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for this my son was dead and came to life, and he was lost and was found.' And they began to be merry.

But it was necessary to be merry and to rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'"

"Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, in order that having died to sins, we might live unto righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

Some wound as they speak, like swords, but the tongues of the wise heal.

Even so the tongue is a small member and it boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.