Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
Jesus answered and said to them, "You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
After these things Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to you."
She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
Why is it considered such an unbelievable thing by you people if God raises the dead?
And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;
And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for us to be roused out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.
I say this to your shame. So is there not among you a wise man, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brother and another?
However, this knowledge is not in all people; rather some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as something offered to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God,