Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.

For if you live according to your human nature, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death your sinful actions, you will live.

But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.

And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.

If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.

My people planted wheat, but gathered weeds; they have worked hard, but got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed."

But instead you planted evil and reaped its harvest. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies. "Because you trusted in your chariots and in the large number of your soldiers,

But these people act by instinct, like wild animals born to be captured and killed; they attack with insults anything they do not understand. They will be destroyed like wild animals,

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits---for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.

Whoever is evil must go on doing evil, and whoever is filthy must go on being filthy; whoever is good must go on doing good, and whoever is holy must go on being holy."

Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.

Let those who wept as they planted their crops, gather the harvest with joy!

Those who wept as they went out carrying the seed will come back singing for joy, as they bring in the harvest.

Do your planting in the morning and in the evening, too. You never know whether it will all grow well or whether one planting will do better than the other.

How happy everyone will be with plenty of water for the crops and safe pasture everywhere for the donkeys and cattle.

And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake, will receive a hundred times more and will be given eternal life.

will receive much more in this present age and eternal life in the age to come."

but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life."

The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so the one who plants and the one who reaps will be glad together.

Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him."

But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.

but God was merciful to me in order that Christ Jesus might show his full patience in dealing with me, the worst of sinners, as an example for all those who would later believe in him and receive eternal life.

so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.

and keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.