You know that when you were Gentiles, how you were led, being carried away to these speechless idols.

But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from [your] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

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.

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who, having become callous, gave themselves over to debauchery, for the working of uncleanness with utmost greediness.

if indeed you have heard Him and were instructed by Him, just as the truth is in Jesus:

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--

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

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

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

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime to accomplish the will of the Gentiles--having walked in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

Wash, and be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;

Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

Jesus said to him, "He that is bathed need only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you."

And now, what are you going to do? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

in order that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of water by the word,

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies having been washed with clean water.

which [as] an antitype, baptism now also saves us-(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but an appeal to God [for] a good conscience), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And I said to him, "My lord, you know." So he said to me, "These are those who come out of the Great Tribulation, and have washed their robes and they made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all those who in every place are calling on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.

But we are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,

By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the children of Israel be glorified.

the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form [Him] with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.

I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

and from all things from which you could not (by the Law of Moses) be justified, by Him everyone that believes is justified.

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of he who is of [the] faith of Jesus.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

since there is one God who will justify [the] circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by [the] faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by [the] faith of Christ and not by [the] works of the law; because no flesh shall be justified by [the] works of the law.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying] that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

But that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith."

Therefore the law has become our custodian, [leading us] to Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.

that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called a friend of God.

Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by means of works, when she received the messengers and sent [them] out another way?