Titus 2:12

Grace trains us to renounce ungodliness and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives now. It matters because saving grace also teaches and reshapes how we live.

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• Ezek 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
• Matt 16:24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Rom 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
• Ps 4:3But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
• Eph 4:22–25That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
• 1 Jn 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
• 2 Pet 1:4–8Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
• 2 Tim 3:12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Luke 1:75In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
• Rev 14:12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
• 1 Th 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jas 4:8–10Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Col 3:5–9Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Eph 2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• 1 Pet 1:14–18As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• Rom 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• 1 Th 4:9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
• Matt 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
• Rom 13:12–13The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• Ezek 18:30–31Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Ezek 33:14–15Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
• Acts 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
• Acts 24:25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• Gal 1:4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Col 1:22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
• 1 Tim 4:12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
• Heb 8:11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• Matt 3:8–10Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
• Matt 5:19–20Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
• John 17:14–15I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• Rom 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

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