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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 after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:13)

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1 Peter 2:11• ¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

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Luke 1:75• ⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. (Luke 1:75)

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Teaching.

Matt. 28:20• ²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matt. 28:20)

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John 6:25• ²⁵And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? (John 6:25)

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1 Thess. 4:9• ⁹But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto 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 every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. (Heb. 8:11)

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1 John 2:27• ²⁷But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (1 John 2:27)

denying.

Isa. 55:6‑7• ⁶Seek ye the Lord 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 the Lord, 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, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
³¹Cast 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? (Ezek. 18:30‑31)

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Ezek. 33:14‑15• ¹⁴Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
¹⁵If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 33:14‑15)

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Matt. 3:8‑10• ⁸Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
⁹And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
¹⁰And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (Matt. 3:8‑10)

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Matt. 16:24• ²⁴Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will 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 holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. (Luke 1:75)

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Rom. 6:4‑6,12,19• ⁴Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
¹⁹I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (Rom. 6:4‑6,12,19)

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Rom. 8:13• ¹³For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:13)

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Rom. 13:12‑13• ¹²The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (Rom. 13:12‑13)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
¹⁰Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
¹¹And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are 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, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2 Cor. 7:1)

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Gal. 5:24• ²⁴And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. (Gal. 5:24)

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Eph. 1:4• ⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (Eph. 1:4)

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Eph. 4:22‑25• ²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for 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 unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Col. 1:22)

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Col. 3:5‑9• ⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
⁶For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
⁷In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
⁹Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (Col. 3:5‑9)

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1 Thess. 4:7• ⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. (1 Thess. 4:7)

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James 4:8‑10• ⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
⁹Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. (James 4:8‑10)

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1 Peter 2:11‑12• ¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
¹²Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:11‑12)

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1 Peter 4:2‑5• ²That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
³For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
⁵Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. (1 Peter 4:2‑5)

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2 Peter 1:4• ⁴Whereby 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. (2 Peter 1:4)

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2 Peter 2:20‑22• ²⁰For 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.
²¹For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
²²But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (2 Peter 2:20‑22)

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1 John 2:15‑17• ¹⁵Love 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.
¹⁶For 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 passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1 John 2:15‑17)

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Jude 18• ¹⁸How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. (Jude 18)

live.

Psa. 105:45• ⁴⁵That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord. (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 ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezek. 36:27)

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Matt. 5:19‑20• ¹⁹Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
²⁰For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 5:19‑20)

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

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Luke 3:9‑13• ⁹And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
¹⁰And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
¹¹He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
¹²Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
¹³And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. (Luke 3:9‑13)

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Acts 24:16,25• ¹⁶And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
²⁵And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. (Acts 24:16,25)

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Rom. 6:19• ¹⁹I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (Rom. 6:19)

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1 Tim. 4:12• ¹²Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. (1 Tim. 4:12)

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1 Peter 1:14‑18• ¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
¹⁷And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
¹⁸Forasmuch 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; (1 Peter 1:14‑18)

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2 Peter 1:5‑8• ⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
⁸For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:5‑8)

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2 Peter 3:11• ¹¹Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (2 Peter 3:11)

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

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Rev. 14:12• ¹²Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. (Rev. 14:12)

soberly.

Titus 2:4• ⁴That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, (Titus 2:4)

godly.

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

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2 Cor. 1:12• ¹²For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. (2 Cor. 1:12)

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2 Peter 2:9• ⁹The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (2 Peter 2:9)

this.

John 14:30• ³⁰Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (John 14:30)

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John 17:14‑15• ¹⁴I 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.
¹⁵I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. (John 17:14‑15)

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

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Gal. 1:4• ⁴Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: (Gal. 1:4)

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Eph. 2:2• ²Wherein 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: (Eph. 2:2)

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2 Tim. 4:10• ¹⁰For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. (2 Tim. 4:10)

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1 John 5:19• ¹⁹And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. (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,

WK Translation Notes

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Or, "impiety."

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Or, "discreetly."

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Or, "piously."