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Holy Living

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

(Footnote: Paul was quoting the Greek poet Menander.)

Holy Living

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

Holy Living

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

Holy Living

The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

Holy Living

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

Holy Living

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Holy Living

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.

Holy Living

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Holy Living

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

(Note from Pastor Peter Haas: “Anger always creates collateral damage. Thus, we should be like God who is ‘slow to anger’ (Exod 34:6). We can choose to transmit pain or transform it.”)

Holy Living

Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

(Note from Pastor Peter Haas: “This is a much more eloquent way of explaining: ‘Do not steal’ as it unpacks the fact that stealing leads to curses on our lives.”)

Holy Living

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Holy Living

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.