The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not! If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker. For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. . . .

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—

“Lord,” someone asked Him, “will only a few people be saved?” Jesus answered,

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.” He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?