“Make sure that no one repays evil for evil. Always pursue what is good for one another and for all people, and test them all. But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the Lord, and He will deliver you.”

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and so that you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live. Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, and seek Him with all their heart.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, because God so loved the world he gave his only Son as a sacrifice for us; and we have a choice to make. Choose this day whom you will serve. You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. CHOOSE!

“For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering, and so he condemned sin in the flesh. He did this, so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:22-23

“For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but, if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ; and, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves to righteous living.” Oh glory be to God!

“Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. But, thanks be to God, that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.” Praise the Lord!

My brothers and sisters in Christ, “Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, “Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.”

“For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the Law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. But, you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you; and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. The same Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you, and just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”