Ephesians 4:22
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22 to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,(A)
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Romans 6:6
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6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.(A)
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Hebrews 12:1
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The Example of Jesus
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,[a] and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,(A)
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- 12.1 Other ancient authorities read sin that easily distracts
James 1:21
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21 Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.(A)
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A) 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation(B)—
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Hebrews 3:13
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13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Colossians 3:7-9
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7 These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life.[a] 8 But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive[b] language from your mouth.(A) 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices
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Titus 3:3
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3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A)
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Ephesians 4:25
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Rules for the New Life
25 So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.(A)
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)
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Ephesians 4:17
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The Old Life and the New
17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A)
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2 Peter 2:13
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13 suffering[a] the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures[b] while they feast with you.(A)
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1 Peter 1:18
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18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold
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Ezekiel 18:30-32
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30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, all of you according to your ways, says the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions; otherwise iniquity will be your ruin.[a](A) 31 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?(B) 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord God. Turn, then, and live.(C)
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- 18.30 Or so that they shall not be a stumbling block of iniquity to you
Colossians 2:11
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11 In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision,[a] by the removal of the body[b] of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;(A)
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Proverbs 11:18
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18 The wicked earn no real gain,
but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.(A)
Job 22:23
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23 If you return to the Almighty,[a] you will be restored,
if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,(A)
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- 22.23 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Obadiah 3
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3 Your proud heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
whose dwelling is in the heights.
You say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”(A)
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- 3 Or clefts of Sela
Ephesians 2:3
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3 All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(A)
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2 Peter 2:7
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7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless(A)
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Jeremiah 49:16
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16 The terror you inspire
and the pride of your heart have deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
who hold the height of the hill.
Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
from there I will bring you down,
says the Lord.(A)
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- 49.16 Or of Sela
Galatians 1:13
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13 You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.(A)
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1 Samuel 1:14
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14 So Eli said to her, “How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine.”(A)
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Romans 7:11
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11 For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
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James 1:26
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26 If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.(A)
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