Deuteronomy 26:16-18
16“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 aYou have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice. 18And the Lord has declared today that you are ba people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,Romans 6:17-18
17But cthanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the dstandard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, ehaving been set free from sin, fhave become slaves of righteousness.Romans 6:22
22But now that you ghave been set free from sin and hhave become slaves of God, ithe fruit you get leads to sanctification and jits end, eternal life.1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9Or do you not know that the unrighteous ▼▼Or wrongdoers
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: lneither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, ▼▼The two Greek terms translated by this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts
10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And nsuch were some of you. But oyou were washed, pyou were sanctified, qyou were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Ephesians 5:8-9
8for rat one time you were sdarkness, but now you are light in the Lord. tWalk as children of light 9(for uthe fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),1 Peter 2:10-11
10 vOnce you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.11Beloved, I urge you was sojourners and exiles xto abstain from the passions of the flesh, ywhich wage war against your soul.
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