You shall not follow the majority in doing evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after the majority to thrust aside justice.

For whoever does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.

Therefore you shall keep My charge, so that you do not do any of these abominable customs which were done before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am Jehovah your God.

When you come into the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

or one who charms magic spells, or a medium, or a wizard, or one who calls up the dead.

You shall be perfect before Jehovah your God.

The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I bear witness of it that its works are evil.

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them Your Word; and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness;

whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

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

who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore purposes to be a friend of the world is shown to be opposing God.

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,

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

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the full true knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the end is worse for them than the beginning.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray; he was cast out onto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And all who dwell on the earth will do homage to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Cast away from you all the transgressions by which you have transgressed, and prepare for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

I will also give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which is corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and without blemish, and above reproach in His sight;

and have put on the new man who is renewed in full true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him,

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

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

O taste and see that Jehovah is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.

proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man.

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the Testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Jehovah are true and altogether just,

And Your servant is warned by them; in keeping them there is great reward.

And I will delight myself in Your Commandments, which I have loved.

My hands also will I lift up to Your Commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate on Your Statutes.

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

MEM: O how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day.

How sweet are Your Words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Therefore all Your Precepts have been esteemed upright; I have hated every false way.

I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah, and Your Law is my delight.

My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; tie them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart;

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding;

She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

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

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

Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand complete and full-grown in all the will of God;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual perversion;

All Scripture is breathed by God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.