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Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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1 Corinthians 9 25
And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
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2 Corinthians 13 5-2 Corinthians 13 6
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?— unless indeed you are disqualified.But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.
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1 Corinthians 8 13
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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Colossians 3:5
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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1 Corinthians 6 12-1 Corinthians 6 13
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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1 Peter 2 11
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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Romans 6:18-19
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
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Matthew 7:21-23
“ Not everyone who says to Me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.Many will say to Me in that day,‘ Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’And then I will declare to them,‘ I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
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2 Timothy 2 22
Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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Luke 9:25
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?
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2 Peter 2 15
They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses,in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;
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Luke 13:26-27
then you will begin to say,‘ We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’But He will say,‘ I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’
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2 Corinthians 11 27
in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—
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Psalms 50:16
But to the wicked God says:“ What right have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth,
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Jeremiah 6:30
People will call them rejected silver, Because the Lord has rejected them.”
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1 Corinthians 13 1-1 Corinthians 13 3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
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1 Corinthians 4 11-1 Corinthians 4 12
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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Luke 12:45-47
But if that servant says in his heart,‘ My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
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Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.”