BELIEVERS RESPONSE TO SIN AFTER
CONVERSION
SCRIPTURES
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II
Corinthians 5:14 “For the love of Christ constraineth
(sunecho=to hold together, controls, compels) us; that if One
died for all, then WERE all dead:”
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II
Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone be in Christ, he IS
a new creature: old things ARE passed away; behold, all
things ARE become new.”
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Romans
6:3-4 “Know ye not, that so many of us as WERE baptized into
Jesus Christ WERE baptized into His death? Therefore, 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. For if we HAVE BEEN planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection:”
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Romans
6:6-7 Knowing this, that our old man IS crucified with Him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin. For he that is dead IS freed from sin.
Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with him:” (Luke 9:23-24 “If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and
follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but
whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save
it.”
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Romans 6:11
“Likewise RECKON (logizomai=to count, to credit, regard, think
of, consider, look upon) ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
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Romans
6:12-13 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,
that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye
your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but
yield yourselves unto God, as those that ARE alive from the
dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God.”
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Romans
6:14, 18, 19 “For sin shall NOT have dominion over you: for
ye are not under the law, but under grace. Being then made free
from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. NOW yield
your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”
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Romans 6:22
“But NOW being made free from sin, and become servants to God,
ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.”
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Romans
12:1-2 “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. And 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.” (II Corinthians
2:16 “We HAVE the mind of Christ.”
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I
Corinthians 10:13
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to
man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
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Galatians
2:20
“I AM crucified with Christ: nevertheless I LIVE; yet not I, but
Christ LIVETH in me; and the life which I NOW live in the flesh,
I LIVE by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.”
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Galatians
5:24
“And they that are Christ’s HAVE crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. If we LIVE in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit.”
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Galatians
6:14 -15
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world IS crucified unto me, and I
unto the world. For in Christ Jesus we ARE a new creature.”
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Colossians
2:12-15
“BURIED with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are RISEN with Him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him
from the dead. He quickened together with Him, having FORGIVEN
you all trespasses…NAILING it to His cross. And having SPOILED
principalities and powers, MADE a shew of them openly,
TRIUMPHING over them in it.”
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II Timothy
1:12
“I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able
to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.”
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James
1:14-15
“Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
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James 5:16
“Confess your faults(paraptoma=a falling aside one to another,
and pray for one for another.”
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I John
1:6-7
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the
light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from
all sin.”
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I John
1:8-10
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. If we confess(homologeo=to speak the same
thing) our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we
have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”
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I John
2:15-16
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
For 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.”
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I John
3:7-10
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth
righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He that
committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that
He might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of
God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he
cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of
God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth
not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his
brother.”
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Jude 1:24
“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present you faultless before the presence of His glory with
exceeding
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
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Hide God’s Word in your heart
(Psalms 119:11)
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Know that every believer is
tempted in like manner as we! (I Corinthians 10:13)
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Confess your faults one to
another, and pray one for another! (James 5:16)
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Be accountable, submitted, open
and truthful! (Ephesians 5:21)
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“Submit
yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
from you.” (James 4:7)”Flee lusts” (II Timothy 2:22; I
Corinthians 6:18)
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Put on the whole armor of God!
(Ephesians 6:11-18)
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(II Corinthians 10:4-5) “For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge
of god, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ:”
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Be aware of
people, places, times, things, that lead to temptation! (II
Timothy 2:22; I Corinthians 6:18)
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“Faith
is our victory”(I John 5:4-5) and “we live by His faith!”
(Galatians 2:20)knowing that “Christ in us, is our hope of
glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
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