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Titus 2:12

James Moffatt - New Testament

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

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Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.

in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air — the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions;

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie — remain in him, as it has taught you to do.

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together.

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

Let no one slight you because you are a youth, but set the believers an example of speech, behaviour, love, faith, and purity.

so as to set you consecrated and unblemished and irreproachable in his presence —

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

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

Whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy Spirit will never be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.

Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.




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