On this day the Lord your God charged you to keep all the statutes and judgments; and you shall observe and do them, with all your heart, and with all your soul.

And the Lord has chosen you this day, that you should be to Him a peculiar people, as He said, to keep His commands;

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.

And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit [resulting] in sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

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,

And such were some of you! But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

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

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth,

who formerly [were] not a people but now [are the] people of God, who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;