Romans 6:17

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Romans 6:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

16 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?

17 But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

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Romans 1:8

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

1 Chronicles 29:12

Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

1 Chronicles 29:13

Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks, and we praise Your glorious name.

1 Chronicles 29:14

But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

1 Chronicles 29:16

O LORD our God, from Your hand comes all this abundance that we have provided to build You a house for Your holy Name, and all of it belongs to You.

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Matthew 11:26

Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Acts 11:18

When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

Acts 28:15

The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and gave thanks to God.

1 Corinthians 1:4

I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:16

I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

Philippians 1:3

I thank my God every time I remember you.

Philippians 1:4

In every prayer for all of you, I always pray with joy,

Philippians 1:5

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,

Colossians 1:3

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

Colossians 1:4

because we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints—

1 Thessalonians 1:2

We always thank God for all of you, remembering you in our prayers

1 Thessalonians 1:3

and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:9

How can we adequately thank God for you in return for our great joy over you in His presence?

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.

2 Timothy 1:3

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.

2 Timothy 1:4

Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

2 Timothy 1:5

I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.

Philemon 1:4

I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers,

2 John 1:4

I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

3 John 1:3

For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Ephesians 2:6

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 2:7

in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:9

not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

1 Timothy 1:13

I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

1 Timothy 1:16

But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:6

This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1 Peter 4:2

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

1 Peter 4:4

Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.

1 Peter 4:5

But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Romans 1:5

Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

Romans 2:8

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

Romans 15:18

I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

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but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith —

Psalms 18:44

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

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We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:6

And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

Hebrews 5:9

And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

1 Peter 1:22

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

1 Peter 3:1

Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

2 Timothy 1:13

Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.