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Teaching us that, denyingk ungodliness and worldly lustsm, wen should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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Rom. 8:13• ¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: (Rom. 8:13)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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Luke 1:75• ⁷⁵in piety and righteousness before him all our days. (Luke 1:75)

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Teaching.

Matt. 28:20• ²⁰teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age. (Matt. 28:20)

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John 6:25• ²⁵And having found him the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when art thou arrived here? (John 6:25)

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1 Thess. 4:9• ⁹Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. (1 Thess. 4:9)

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Heb. 8:11• ¹¹And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them. (Heb. 8:11)

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1 John 2:27• ²⁷and *yourselves*, the unction which ye have received from him abides in you, and ye have not need that any one should teach you; but as the same unction teaches you as to all things, and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him. (1 John 2:27)

denying.

Isa. 55:6‑7• ⁶Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isa. 55:6‑7)

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Ezek. 18:30‑31• ³⁰Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your snare.
³¹Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel? (Ezek. 18:30‑31)

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Ezek. 33:14‑15• ¹⁴And when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die, and he turneth from his sin, and doeth judgment and justice;
¹⁵if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, doing nothing that is wrong; he shall certainly live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 33:14‑15)

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Matt. 3:8‑10• ⁸Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.
⁹And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
¹⁰And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. (Matt. 3:8‑10)

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Matt. 16:24• ²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Matt. 16:24)

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Luke 1:75• ⁷⁵in piety and righteousness before him all our days. (Luke 1:75)

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Rom. 6:4‑6,12,19• ⁴We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.
⁵For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;
⁶knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
¹⁹I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness. (Rom. 6:4‑6,12,19)

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Rom. 8:13• ¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: (Rom. 8:13)

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Rom. 13:12‑13• ¹²The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
¹³As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation. (Rom. 13:12‑13)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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2 Cor. 7:1• ¹Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear. (2 Cor. 7:1)

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Gal. 5:24• ²⁴But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts. (Gal. 5:24)

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Eph. 1:4• ⁴according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love; (Eph. 1:4)

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Eph. 4:22‑25• ²²namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
²³and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;
²⁴and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.
²⁵Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:22‑25)

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Col. 1:22• ²²in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it, (Col. 1:22)

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Col. 3:5‑9• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
⁶On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
⁷In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.
⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth.
⁹Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds, (Col. 3:5‑9)

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1 Thess. 4:7• ⁷For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. (1 Thess. 4:7)

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James 4:8‑10• ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
⁹Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:8‑10)

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1 Peter 2:11‑12• ¹¹Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
¹²having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:11‑12)

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1 Peter 4:2‑5• ²no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.
³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.
⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you;
⁵who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. (1 Peter 4:2‑5)

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2 Peter 1:4• ⁴through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:4)

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2 Peter 2:20‑22• ²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.
²¹For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
²²But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud. (2 Peter 2:20‑22)

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1 John 2:15‑17• ¹⁵Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
¹⁶because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
¹⁷And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity. (1 John 2:15‑17)

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Jude 18• ¹⁸that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses. (Jude 18)

live.

Psa. 105:45• ⁴⁵That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah! (Psa. 105:45)

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Ezek. 36:27• ²⁷And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them. (Ezek. 36:27)

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Matt. 5:19‑20• ¹⁹Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach them, *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
²⁰For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens. (Matt. 5:19‑20)

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Luke 1:6,75• ⁶And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
⁷⁵in piety and righteousness before him all our days. (Luke 1:6,75)

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Luke 3:9‑13• ⁹And already also the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
¹⁰And the crowds asked him saying, What should we do then?
¹¹And he answering says to them, He that has two body-coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.
¹²And tax-gatherers came also to be baptised, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?
¹³And he said to them, Take no more money than what is appointed to you. (Luke 3:9‑13)

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Acts 24:16,25• ¹⁶For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.
²⁵And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee; (Acts 24:16,25)

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Rom. 6:19• ¹⁹I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness. (Rom. 6:19)

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1 Tim. 4:12• ¹²Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. (1 Tim. 4:12)

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1 Peter 1:14‑18• ¹⁴as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;
¹⁵but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;
¹⁶because it is written, Be ye holy, for *I* am holy.
¹⁷And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear,
¹⁸knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers, (1 Peter 1:14‑18)

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2 Peter 1:5‑8• ⁵But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
⁶in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
⁷in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
⁸for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; (2 Peter 1:5‑8)

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2 Peter 3:11• ¹¹All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness, (2 Peter 3:11)

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1 John 2:6• ⁶He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked, himself also so to walk. (1 John 2:6)

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Rev. 14:12• ¹²Here is the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. (Rev. 14:12)

soberly.

Titus 2:4• ⁴that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children, (Titus 2:4)

godly.

Psa. 4:3• ³But know that Jehovah hath set apart the pious man for himself: Jehovah will hear when I call unto him. (Psa. 4:3)

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2 Cor. 1:12• ¹²For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you. (2 Cor. 1:12)

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2 Peter 2:9• ⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished; (2 Peter 2:9)

this.

John 14:30• ³⁰I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world comes, and in me he has nothing; (John 14:30)

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John 17:14‑15• ¹⁴I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
¹⁵I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil. (John 17:14‑15)

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Rom. 12:2• ²And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom. 12:2)

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Gal. 1:4• ⁴who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father; (Gal. 1:4)

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Eph. 2:2• ²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: (Eph. 2:2)

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2 Tim. 4:10• ¹⁰for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. (2 Tim. 4:10)

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1 John 5:19• ¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the wicked one. (1 John 5:19)

• His grace, which goes far beyond law, instructs us, that we should live soberly as regards ourselves, righteously as regards others, and godlily in our highest relationship; for this present age is an evil one. (“On Titus 2:9-12” by W. Kelly)

• Having brought this salvation, it instructs us perfectly with regard to our walk in this world; and that in relation to ourselves, and to other men, and to God. (“Titus 2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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teachingi us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberlyk, and justly, and piously in the present course of thingsl,

JND Translation Notes

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This word has certainly the sense of discipline, and always perhaps carries with it something of the thought of setting right; but it is used unquestionably for instructing, as in Acts 7.22, and elsewhere.

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That is, with self-restraint and consideration, or sound mind; as "discreet," ch. 1.8.

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Aion. see Matt. 13.22, but "age" hardly gives the sense. "World" gives the false idea of this world as one, and heaven another. It was, for the Jews, the present state of things in contrast with that to be introduced by Messiah.

W. Kelly Translation

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instructing us that, having denied ungodlinessa and worldly lusts, we should live soberlyb and righteously and godlilyc in this present age,

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Or, "impiety."

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Or, "discreetly."

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Or, "piously."