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For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
¶ But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
I 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.
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
¶ Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
¶ And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
¶ And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
¶ [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called [to be] saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
¶ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
¶ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
¶ Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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