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15For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do. 16So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good. 17But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me. 18For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach. 19For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. 20Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.
6Everyone who abides in him does not sin. For whoever sins has not seen him, and has not known him. 7Little sons, let no one deceive you. Whoever does justice is just, even as he also is just. 8Whoever commits sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from the beginning. For this reason, the Son of God appeared, so that he might eradicate the works of the devil. 9All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God. 10In this way, the sons of God are made manifest, and also the sons of the devil. Everyone who is not just, is not of God, as also anyone who does not love his brother.
26For if we sin willingly, after receiving knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice remaining for sins, 27but instead, a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire that shall consume its adversaries.
13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
12Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
3And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments. 4Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the charity of God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him. 6Whoever declares himself to remain in him, ought to walk just as he himself walked.
9All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.
15Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.
7And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.
20For even if our heart reproaches us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows all things.
20Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
1My little sons, this I write to you, so that you may not sin. But if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just One.
27And Jesus, gazing at them, said: “With men it is impossible; but not with God. For with God all things are possible.”
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, 20the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.