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1 Corinthians 6:12 BSB
“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
John 8:36 BSB
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Galatians 5:1 BSB
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
Romans 6:16 BSB
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:18 BSB
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Romans 6:22 BSB
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
Romans 12:2 BSB
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
1 Peter 5:8 BSB
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Corinthians 10:13 BSB
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
James 4:7 BSB
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Galatians 5:16 BSB
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19 BSB
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Galatians 5:22 BSB
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:23 BSB
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Titus 2:12 BSB
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
2 Timothy 1:7 BSB
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Proverbs 25:28 BSB
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.
Proverbs 23:29 BSB
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Proverbs 23:31 BSB
Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Ephesians 5:18 BSB
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.