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Romans 8:13
for if you are living in accord with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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1 Corinthians 9 25
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
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2 Corinthians 13 5-2 Corinthians 13 6
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you— unless indeed you fail the test?But I expect that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test.
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1 Corinthians 8 13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.
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Colossians 3:5
Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
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1 Corinthians 6 12-1 Corinthians 6 13
All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, however God will do away with both of them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.
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1 Peter 2 11
Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.
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Romans 6:18-19
and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
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Matthew 7:21-23
“ Not everyone who says to Me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.Many will say to Me on that day,‘ Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’And then I will declare to them,‘ I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
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2 Timothy 2 22
Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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Luke 9:25
For what good does it do a person if he gains the whole world, but loses or forfeits himself?
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2 Peter 2 15
abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;
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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in difficulties,in beatings, in imprisonments, in mob attacks, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,
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Luke 13:26-27
Then you will begin saying,‘ We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets!’And yet He will say,‘ I do not know where you are from; leave Me, all you evildoers.’
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2 Corinthians 11 27
I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
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Psalms 50:16
But to the wicked God says,“ What right do you have to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth?
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Jeremiah 6:30
They call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.
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1 Corinthians 13 1-1 Corinthians 13 3
If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless;and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
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Luke 12:45-47
But if that slave says in his heart,‘ My master will take a long time to come,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;then the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect, and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accordance with his will, will receive many blows,
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Acts 1:25
to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”