As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Therefore if any man {be} in Christ, {he is} a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. {he is: or, let him be}

And have put on the new {man}, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Love not the world, neither the things {that are} in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord {is}.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

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.

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.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. {right: or, constant}

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to {fulfil} the lusts {thereof}.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in {your} mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled {in...: or, by your mind in}

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

The law of the LORD {is} perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD {is} sure, making wise the simple. {law: or, doctrine} {converting: or, restoring}

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.

O taste and see that the LORD {is} good: blessed {is} the man {that} trusteth in him.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

(For the fruit of the Spirit {is} in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

For this is the will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

All scripture {is} given by inspiration of God, and {is} profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

{And} we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Happy {is} the man {that} findeth wisdom, and the man {that} getteth understanding. {that getteth...: Heb. that draweth out understanding}

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law {is} my delight.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Therefore I esteem all {thy} precepts {concerning} all {things to be} right; {and} I hate every false way.

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

MEM. O how love I thy law! it {is} my meditation all the day.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! {yea, sweeter} than honey to my mouth! {taste: Heb. palate}

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to {do} evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest {judgment}: {speak: Heb. answer}

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

The law of thy mouth {is} better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit {them} shall be cut off from among their people.

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord {is} gracious.

Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Epaphras, who is {one} of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. {labouring...: or, striving} {complete: or, filled}

When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, {as} silver and gold, from your vain conversation {received} by tradition from your fathers;

Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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.

Love not the world, neither the things {that are} in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. {right: or, constant}

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord. {by the...: or, of the Lord the Spirit}

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord {is}.

And have put on the new {man}, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, {and} to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as {it is} in heaven.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward {man} is renewed day by day.

Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; {approve: or, try} {are...: or, differ}

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

For this is the will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Whose adorning let it not be that outward {adorning} of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

The law of the LORD {is} perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD {is} sure, making wise the simple. {law: or, doctrine} {converting: or, restoring}

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

For this cause we also, since the day we heard {it}, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

{As for} God, his way {is} perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he {is} a buckler to all those that trust in him. {tried: or, refined}

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not {in} the oldness of the letter. {that being...: or, being dead to that}

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? {is it} to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes {under him}? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? {a day...: or, to afflict his soul for a day?}

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

And thou shalt do {that which is} right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

Ye shall not eat {of} any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that {is} in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou {art} an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

But ye {shall} not {be} so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that {was} at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. {Damascus: Heb. Dammesek}

And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, {which were} concubines, to keep the house. {after...: Heb. at his feet}

Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

But we know that the law {is} good, if a man use it lawfully;

Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. {by...: Heb. after them}

And after six days Jesus taketh {with him} Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what {is} good.

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.