You know that you were Gentiles, led away regarding these mute idols, in whatever manner you were led.

But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

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.

if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, 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 which are on the earth: sexual perversion, uncleanness, passion, evil lusts, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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

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

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,

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.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

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

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed from its excrement.

Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My eyes; stop doing evil.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.

Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has no other need than to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not everyone.

And now why are you waiting? Arise and be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word,

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,

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

There is also an antitype which now saves us; immersion (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

and from Jesus Christ, the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn out from the dead, and the Ruler over the kings of the earth; to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And I said to him, Sir, you know. So he said to me, These are the ones coming out of great affliction, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

But out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who was made for us from God wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission 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, faith,

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

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

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

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

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

He shall see the travail of His soul, and shall be fulfilled. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.

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

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

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

to prove at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one 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 circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

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

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

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

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

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believe into Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified.

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

But that no one is justified by the Law in the sight of God is evident; for, The just shall live by faith.

Therefore the Law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

that being justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Was not Abraham our father justified from 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, Friend of God.

Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified from works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?