34 »In most solemn truth I tell you,« replied Jesus, »that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.

36 If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed.

36 If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed.

31 Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, »As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;32 and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.«

1 Christ having made us gloriously free–stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

16 Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?

21 hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.23 good faith, meekness, self-restraint.

12 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

12 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable to me, but to nothing will I become a slave.

27 but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

13 No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.

13 No temptation has you in its power but such as is common to human nature; and God is faithful and will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. But, when the temptation comes, He will also provide the way of escape; so that you may be able to bear it.

41 Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail.«

7 Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

3 Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

1 I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.2 And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is–that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

11 In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.12 Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;13 and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

5 For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.6 This we know–that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;

11 For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,12 training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

2 that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.3 For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in– pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.4 At this they are astonished–that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.5 But they will have to give account to Him who stands ready to pronounce judgement on the living and the dead.6 For it is with this end in view that the Good News was proclaimed even to some who were dead, that they may be judged, as all mankind will be judged, in the body, but may be living a godly life in the spirit.7 But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

8 If we claim to be already free from sin, we lead ourselves astray and the truth has no place in our hearts.9 If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

19 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you–the Spirit whom you have from God?

9 Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,10 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.11 And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

18 Do not over-indulge in wine –a thing in which excess is so easy–

23 (No longer be a water-drinker; but take a little wine for the sake of your digestion and your frequent ailments.)

16 For the things in the world –the cravings of the earthly nature, the cravings of the eyes, the show and pride of life– they all come, not from the Father, but from the world.

8 Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

13 You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has become tasteless, in what way can it regain its saltness? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown away and trodden on by the passers by.

13 and bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil one.'

11 for it is written, »As I live,' says the Lord, to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall make confession to God.'«12 So we see that every one of us will give account of himself to God.