and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.

Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions with the oil of rejoicing.”

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.