This day Jehovah your God is commanding you to do these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall take heed to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

And today Jehovah has declared you to be His treasured people, as He has promised you; for you to keep all His commandments,

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.

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be led astray. Neither prostitutes, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, 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 once were not a people but are now the people of God, who did not have mercy but now have mercy.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and sojourners, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,