TSK · Titus 2:12

Realize that the LORD shows the godly special favor; the LORD responds when I cry out to him.

Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby!

Suppose I say to the wicked,‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, and purity.

Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

For they said to you,“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”