New Revised Standard Version
training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,

Contemporary English Version
He taught us to give up our wicked ways and our worldly desires and to live decent and honest lives in this world.

New American Bible
and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,

Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world,

Teaching.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

John 6:25 And when they had found him on that other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

1 John 2:27 And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him abide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his unction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as it hath taught you, abide in him.

denying.

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Ezekiel 18:30,31 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. . . .

Ezekiel 33:14,15 And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice, . . .

Matthew 3:8-10 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. . . .

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Luke 1:75 In holiness and justice before him, all our days.

Romans 6:4-6,12,19 For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. . . .

Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

Romans 13:12,13 The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . .

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

Ephesians 1:4 As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.

Ephesians 4:22-25 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. . . .

Colossians 1:22 Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

Colossians 3:5-9 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

James 4:8-10 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. . . .

1 Peter 2:11,12 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul, . . .

1 Peter 4:2-5 That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God. . . .

2 Peter 1:4 By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. . . .

1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. . . .

Jude 1:18 Who told you that in the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own desires in ungodlinesses.

live.

Psalm 105:45 That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law.

Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.

Matthew 5:19,20 He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Luke 1:6,75 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame. . . .

Luke 3:9-13 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire. . . .

Acts 24:16,25 And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence, towards God and towards men. . . .

Romans 6:19 I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

1 Peter 1:14-18 As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance, . . .

2 Peter 1:5-8 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge: . . .

2 Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?

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

Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

soberly.

Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.

godly.

Psalm 4:3 Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:

this.

John 14:30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

John 17:14,15 I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. . . .

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

2 Timothy 4:10 Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.