Lexicon :: Strong's G1438 - heautou

Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

The men[fn] in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons[fn] the appropriate penalty of their error.

So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law, do[fn] what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.

He did not weaken in faith when he considered[fn] his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.[fn]

And do not offer any parts[fn] of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone[fn] as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey ​— ​either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

For what the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering,[fn]

Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits ​— ​we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for God’s wrath, because it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.

The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;[fn] do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.

For none of us lives for himself, and no one dies for himself.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.

Whatever you believe about these things, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

For even Christ did not please himself. On the contrary, as it is written, The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only do I thank them, but so do all the Gentile churches.

because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites.[fn] They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.