Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own. - 1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)
We know that anyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning. - 1 John 5:18 (ESV)
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and will bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to you. - John 14:26 (ESV)
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. - Romans 12:1-2 (ESV)
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander. - Matthew 15:19 (NLT)
Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy. - Romans 6:19 (NLT)
Each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 (BSB)
I am saying this for your benefit, not to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best, with as few distractions as possible. - 1 Corinthians 7:35 (NLT)
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7 (ESV)
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:6 (ESV)
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. - 1 John 3:10 (NIV)
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. 3 John 1:11 (NIV)
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin. - Mark 3:29 (BSB)
Behemoth is the first of God's conquests. Its maker approaches it with his sword. - Job 40:19 (GWT)
The wicked plot against the godly; they snarl at them in defiance. - Psalm 37:12 (NLT)
What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars. - Proverbs 6:12 (NLT)
If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. - 1 John 2:4 (NLT)
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. - 1 John 4:20 (NIV)
A person who plans evil will get a reputation as a troublemaker. The schemes of a fool are sinful; everyone detests a mocker. - Proverbs 24:8 (NLT)
Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man--of him who acts with excessive pride. - Proverbs 21:24 (BSB)
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. - Psalm 73:8 (BSB)
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord. Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery. - Proverbs 6:14-15 (BSB)
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making. His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head. - Psalm 7:14-16 (BSB)
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. - Proverbs 5:22 (BSB)
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. - Psalm 27:13 (KJB)
Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked. - Proverbs 24:19 (BSB)
