Esther and the Exchanged Life: Providence, Surrender, and the Rule of the Spirit
An ancient palace corridor opening into light, reminding us that even when God’s hand is hidden, His providence is at work, and in Christ the Spirit brings our whole life under a new government.
With gratitude to Dr. John Woodward of Grace Fellowship International, whose article, “The Book of Esther: Pictures of the Spiritual Life,” inspired this reflection. Dr. Woodward draws on Major W. Ian Thomas’s devotional treatment of Esther in “If I Perish, I Perish: The Christian Life in Esther".
Dr. Woodward from Grace Fellowship International recently left one of his characteristically playful comments beneath a Rooted in Christ video:
“Exchanged Life symbolism in the book of Esther. Oops, false alarm!”
I took that as more than a joke.
The book of Esther is not an exposition of union with Christ in the way Romans 6, Galatians 2, or John 15 are. Esther belongs to the Old Testament story of God’s covenant faithfulness to Israel. Its primary message concerns the providential preservation of the Jewish people from Haman’s genocidal plot.
Yet once that historical and redemptive meaning is firmly established, the story can also provide a memorable devotional picture of the spiritual life. Dr. Woodward, following Major Ian Thomas, uses Esther’s palace, personalities, conflict, surrender, and great reversal as an illustration of the believer’s struggle between the flesh and the Holy Spirit.
That symbolism should not replace exegesis. It should be governed by exegesis.
The doctrine comes from the clear teaching of the New Testament. The story then helps us see and remember that doctrine.
Under that guardrail, Esther offers a compelling picture of what happens when self-rule is exposed, the believer yields to God, and the indwelling Spirit brings the mind, emotions, will, and body under the active lordship of Christ.
Part One: The Theological Exposition
This Is Who You Are in Christ
Before considering the exchanged-life symbolism, we need to understand what the book of Esther actually teaches in its own setting.
The God whose name is absent is not absent
Esther is unusual because the book never explicitly mentions God.
There is no recorded prayer addressed directly to Him. No prophet appears with the phrase, “Thus says the Lord.” No miracle openly suspends the ordinary course of nature. No divine voice explains what is happening.
Yet the providence of God governs the entire story.
Vashti refuses the king’s command.
Esther is chosen as queen.
Mordecai uncovers a plot against the king.
His service is recorded but temporarily unrewarded.
Haman rises to power.
A date is chosen by lot for the destruction of the Jews.
Esther reaches the throne at the right moment.
The king cannot sleep on the very night before Haman intends to request Mordecai’s death.
The royal chronicles are opened to the exact record of Mordecai’s forgotten service.
Haman is forced to honor the man he planned to execute.
Esther exposes Haman.
Haman dies on the instrument he prepared for Mordecai.
Mordecai is elevated.
The Jewish people are permitted to defend themselves.
What appears to be a series of political decisions, personal choices, delays, coincidences, sleeplessness, records, banquets, and reversals is held together by the unseen hand of God.
The Lord is not named, but His promise-keeping faithfulness is everywhere.
This is providence.
Providence does not mean every human action is righteous. Haman is wicked. The Persian court is morally compromised. Xerxes is impulsive and easily influenced. Esther and Mordecai act within a complicated political world.
Yet none of this prevents God from fulfilling His purpose.
The book of Esther teaches us that divine silence is not divine absence.
God may be hidden from the characters’ sight, but He is not missing from their story.
Haman’s plot threatens more than one generation
Haman’s decree threatens the annihilation of the Jewish people throughout the Persian Empire.
That makes the crisis larger than the survival of Esther and Mordecai.
God had promised that the offspring of the woman would defeat the serpent (Genesis 3:15). He had promised Abraham that through his offspring blessing would come to the nations (Genesis 12:1-3). He had promised David that one of his descendants would establish an enduring kingdom (2 Samuel 7:12-16).
The Messiah would come through Israel.
Therefore, Haman’s plot is part of the larger biblical conflict between the offspring of the serpent and the promised line through which the Redeemer would come.
Haman is not merely an angry official pursuing a personal grudge. His plan becomes an assault against the covenant people and, therefore, against the unfolding promise of God.
But Haman cannot destroy what God has promised to preserve.
That does not mean Esther and Mordecai become passive. They act with courage, wisdom, patience, and risk. Providence does not remove human responsibility. God’s sovereign purpose works through the decisions, courage, fasting, appeals, and actions of His people.
Yet the final explanation for Israel’s preservation is not Esther’s beauty, Mordecai’s intelligence, or Xerxes’s insomnia.
God keeps His promise.
Esther risks her life for her people
When Mordecai tells Esther that she must approach the king, she initially hesitates.
Her fear is understandable. Entering the king’s presence without being summoned could result in death. Her royal position does not eliminate her vulnerability. The king who elevated her can also condemn her.
Mordecai then speaks the most familiar words in the book:
“And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Esther responds:
“If I perish, I perish.”
This is not reckless fatalism. It is costly surrender.
Esther does not know how the king will respond. She does not control the outcome. She cannot guarantee deliverance. But she chooses to identify herself with the endangered people of God.
She is willing to lose her life rather than preserve it through silence.
Esther becomes an intercessory figure. She enters the royal presence on behalf of others, identifies herself with her condemned people, and places her own life at risk.
But she is not the final mediator.
Jesus is greater than Esther.
Esther said, “If I perish.”
Jesus knew He would perish.
Esther entered the presence of a human king at risk to herself.
Jesus came from the Father’s presence and entered our condemnation willingly.
Esther pleaded for the lives of her people.
Jesus gave His life for His people.
Esther could expose the enemy, but she could not bear the guilt of the guilty.
Christ bore sin in His own body on the cross.
Esther’s courage contributed to a temporary national deliverance. Jesus secured eternal redemption.
The great reversal points beyond itself
The book of Esther is structured around reversal.
Haman plans Mordecai’s humiliation, but Haman must honor him.
Haman builds an instrument of death for Mordecai, but Haman dies upon it.
Mordecai sits outside the center of power, then receives the king’s signet ring.
The Jews are marked for destruction, then are granted the right to defend themselves.
Sorrow becomes joy.
Mourning becomes celebration.
A day intended for annihilation becomes the occasion for Purim, a yearly remembrance of deliverance.
This pattern of reversal belongs to the larger biblical story.
Joseph is cast into a pit and later raised to preserve life.
Israel is enslaved and then led out through the sea.
David is hunted and later enthroned.
Jesus is rejected, crucified, buried, and then raised in triumph.
At the cross, evil appears to have achieved its greatest victory. The Son of God hangs condemned. His enemies mock Him. His followers scatter. Darkness covers the land.
But the cross becomes the means by which sin is judged, Satan is disarmed, death is defeated, and sinners are reconciled to God.
The instrument of apparent defeat becomes the place of decisive victory.
Haman’s downfall provides an Old Testament picture of reversal.
The cross is the ultimate reversal.
Jesus was hanged so that the condemned could be set free.
Purim remembers a real deliverance
The feast of Purim was established so Israel would remember.
The Jewish people were not to treat their rescue as a fortunate political accident. They were to recount what had happened, celebrate deliverance, give gifts, and remember the preservation of their people.
Remembrance matters because deliverance can become ordinary in our minds over time.
The New Testament also calls believers to remember a greater rescue.
We remember Christ’s body given for us.
We remember His blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins.
We remember that we were delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son.
We remember that our freedom did not come through our strength.
It came through Christ.
A Necessary Hermeneutical Guardrail
Before turning to the spiritual symbolism, we need to state the boundary clearly.
The original meaning of Esther is not that Xerxes represents the soul, Esther represents the regenerated human spirit, Mordecai represents the Holy Spirit, and Haman represents the flesh.
Those associations are not stated by the biblical author.
The primary meaning is God’s providential preservation of the Jewish people, the defeat of Haman’s plot, the establishment of Purim, and the preservation of the covenant line through which Christ would come.
Dr. Woodward and Major Ian Thomas offer a devotional analogy, not a second inspired meaning hidden beneath the historical one.
That distinction protects us from uncontrolled allegory.
A devotional analogy may illuminate doctrine, but it must never create doctrine. Every theological claim must be established from clear biblical teaching elsewhere.
The New Testament teaches that:
The believer has been crucified and raised with Christ.
The believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
The flesh opposes the Spirit.
Believers can grieve and quench the Spirit.
Believers are commanded to walk by the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit.
The mind is renewed.
The body is presented to God as an instrument of righteousness.
Christ lives in the believer.
Those doctrines come from passages such as Romans 6 through 8, Galatians 2 and 5, Ephesians 1, 4, and 5, and 1 Thessalonians 5.
Esther can then serve as a picture that helps us carry those truths into imagination and memory.
The safest approach is this:
Let the New Testament govern the symbolism. Do not let the symbolism govern the New Testament.
The exchanged life in biblical terms
The exchanged life is not the exchange of one human personality for another.
It is not the disappearance of the believer.
It is not the suspension of the mind, emotions, or will.
It is not a mystical state in which every inward impression must be the voice of God.
It is the reality of union with Christ.
Paul writes:
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
Then he immediately adds:
“And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God.”
Paul still lives.
He thinks, chooses, speaks, serves, reasons, suffers, plans, obeys, and acts. But he no longer regards himself as the independent source of the Christian life.
Christ is his life.
The believer’s mind, emotions, and will remain fully active, but the whole person is increasingly brought under the renewing leadership of the indwelling Spirit through the Word.
This is what makes Dr. Woodward’s use of Esther memorable.
The palace becomes a picture of a life under contested government.
Haman wants control.
Mordecai represents another government.
Esther must decide whether she will preserve herself through silence or yield herself to a purpose larger than self-protection.
The king’s signet ring represents governing authority.
The question beneath the picture is:
Who is ruling the kingdom?
This is who you are in Christ
If you are in Christ, you are not trying to invite the Holy Spirit into a life from which He is absent.
You have been sealed with the Holy Spirit.
You belong to God.
You are not an orphan trying to become acceptable.
The Father has adopted you through Jesus Christ.
You are not under the flesh’s rightful rule.
Your old self was crucified with Christ.
You are not obligated to obey the self-reliant patterns that once governed you.
You are no longer a debtor to the flesh.
You are not expected to defeat the flesh by fleshly determination.
You put to death the deeds of the body by the Spirit.
You are not performing Christlikeness to persuade God to favor you.
You are already accepted in the Beloved.
You are not trying to create the life of Jesus.
Christ is your life.
You are learning to yield your mind, emotions, will, relationships, words, and body to the Spirit who already dwells within you.
Part Two: The Living Picture
The Palace Under Two Governments
Dr. Woodward, drawing on Major Ian Thomas, presents the characters and setting of Esther as a picture of the spiritual life.
In this illustration:
The Persian kingdom represents the body.
The king represents the soul, especially the mind, emotions, and will.
Vashti is used as a picture of the human spirit before regeneration.
Esther represents the human spirit made alive to God.
Mordecai represents the Holy Spirit.
Haman represents the flesh.
This analogy has limits.
The Holy Spirit is not merely an inward counselor like Mordecai. He is the eternal third Person of the Trinity.
The flesh is not a separate person living inside the Christian. It is the fallen, self-reliant way of living that operates apart from dependence on God.
The mind, emotions, and will are not an independent king with absolute sovereignty. They remain human faculties that need renewal, truth, and Spirit-led direction.
Within those limits, the picture is useful.
Haman at the center of government
Haman rises to influence within the kingdom.
He wants honor.
He wants recognition.
He demands submission.
He is enraged when Mordecai will not bow.
He does not want coexistence. He wants Mordecai removed.
That resembles the flesh.
The flesh does not merely want permission to exist at the edge of our lives. It wants to govern.
It wants thoughts to serve self-protection.
It wants emotions to serve self-pity, resentment, appetite, fear, or pride.
It wants the will to serve control.
It wants the body to become an instrument of sin.
It resists the Spirit because the Spirit’s government exposes self-rule.
Galatians 5 says:
“For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh.”
Haman’s hostility toward Mordecai provides a vivid picture of that conflict.
Again, the story is not the source of the doctrine.
Galatians is.
But once the doctrine is established, Haman helps us see the flesh’s appetite for rule.
The Spirit is received, but His leadership can be resisted
Every true believer possesses the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8 says that anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. Ephesians 1 says believers are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when they hear and believe the gospel.
The Spirit is not received in stages as though a person could be partly Christian without Him.
Yet believers who possess the Spirit can still resist His leadership.
We can grieve Him through corrupt speech, bitterness, malice, falsehood, and unforgiveness.
We can quench His work by resisting the truth He applies through Scripture.
We can walk according to the flesh instead of walking by the Spirit.
Dr. Woodward’s illustration pictures Mordecai as present in Esther’s life while Haman still exercises governing influence over the king and kingdom.
That can help us picture a believer who has truly received the Spirit but still allows self-reliance, fear, pride, appetite, or control to dominate the mind and behavior.
The Spirit has not left.
But His leadership is being resisted.
“If I perish, I perish”
The turning point comes when Esther yields.
She can preserve her present security through silence, or she can identify herself with God’s threatened people and enter the king’s presence.
She says:
“If I perish, I perish.”
In the devotional analogy, this becomes a picture of surrender.
Not surrender as a meritorious work.
Not surrender as a way to earn God’s acceptance.
Not surrender as destroying the personality.
It is the surrender of self-rule.
Jesus said that whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for His sake will find it. Paul said our old self was crucified with Christ. He also urged believers to present themselves to God as those brought from death to life.
Esther’s surrender does not create the king’s authority or Mordecai’s wisdom. It allows the decisive conflict to be brought into the open.
The believer’s yieldedness does not create the life of Christ.
It stops defending the rival government.
Haman is exposed
Before Haman can fall, he must be exposed.
Esther names him:
“A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!”
The flesh also prefers concealment.
Control calls itself responsibility.
People-pleasing calls itself love.
Bitterness calls itself discernment.
Pride calls itself conviction.
Fear calls itself wisdom.
Self-effort calls itself devotion.
The Spirit uses the Word to uncover what is actually governing us.
This exposure is not condemnation for the believer.
God is not exposing Haman-like rule to decide whether to keep us. In Christ, He has already claimed us.
His searching serves restoration, formation, and fellowship.
The Spirit shows us what does not belong to the life of the Son within us.
Haman falls on the instrument he built
Haman dies on the very instrument he prepared for Mordecai.
Within the devotional picture, this points us toward the cross.
The flesh cannot be rehabilitated into the source of spiritual life.
It cannot be educated into being the Vine.
It cannot be disciplined into producing the fruit of the Spirit.
Its claim to rule has been judged in the cross of Christ.
Paul says:
“Our old self was crucified with him.”
He also says:
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
This does not mean temptation disappears or that believers no longer experience the pull of self-reliance.
It means the flesh no longer possesses rightful authority.
The believer does not have to obey it.
We are not debtors to the flesh.
And we do not overcome it by producing stronger flesh.
We walk by the Spirit.
Mordecai receives the king’s ring
The king’s signet ring had represented delegated authority. Haman possessed it for destructive purposes. After Haman’s exposure and fall, the ring is given to Mordecai.
In the illustration, this represents the Spirit’s governing influence over the believer’s life.
This does not mean the Holy Spirit takes over the believer’s faculties so that the person becomes passive.
The king still acts.
Esther still acts.
Mordecai still gives direction.
The kingdom still moves.
But the government has changed.
The mind begins to receive the truth of God.
The emotions are brought into the Father’s presence.
The will responds in yielded obedience.
The body becomes available as an instrument of righteousness.
This is not spiritual passivity.
It is grace-formed participation.
Paul describes the same pattern:
“I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.”
Paul worked.
Yet Paul was not the source.
Grace was active with him.
That is the exchanged life.
Not inactivity.
Not self-supply.
Christ as life, the Spirit as supply, the Word as truth, and the believer responding in faith.
A new government becomes visible
Once Mordecai receives the ring, the kingdom comes under a new administration.
That is how Dr. Woodward describes the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit who indwells the believer brings the mind, emotions, will, words, choices, and body under the active lordship of Christ.
Being filled with the Spirit does not mean receiving more of Him as though He had been divided into portions.
It means living under His active influence and direction.
The Word of Christ dwells richly.
The mind is renewed.
The fruit of the Spirit appears.
The body is presented to God.
The believer’s life increasingly expresses the character of Christ.
Not because the believer has become the source.
Because the government has changed.
Part Three: The Grace-Formed Walk
Because This Is Who You Are, This Is How You Live
Because you are in Christ, the question is not whether you can become strong enough to defeat Haman.
The question is whether you will continue defending the government Christ has already judged.
The flesh may still speak.
It may demand recognition.
It may resent correction.
It may urge you to preserve yourself.
It may tell you to control, withdraw, manipulate, retaliate, perform, or hide.
But the flesh is not your identity.
Christ is your life.
Learn to recognize who is giving the orders
In the palace picture, Haman gives commands and the kingdom responds.
In daily life, ask what is directing your mind, emotions, will, and body.
When someone disappoints you, what gives the order?
When fear rises, what writes the response?
When your reputation is threatened, what decides your words?
When you are overlooked, what governs your reaction?
When temptation comes, what are you treating as your source?
This is not an invitation to endless self-analysis.
It is an invitation to honest discernment under Scripture.
You can ask:
Does this response agree with the life and Word of Christ, or is self-protection governing me?
Do not fight the flesh with the flesh
Self-effort cannot produce Spirit-filled living.
The flesh is entirely willing to become religious if religion will allow it to remain in control.
It will memorize verses for pride.
It will serve for recognition.
It will sacrifice for superiority.
It will pursue discipline to establish self-righteousness.
It will even attempt surrender as a way to feel spiritually successful.
The answer is not stronger resolve from the same source.
The answer is Christ.
You might pray:
Lord Jesus, I cannot produce Your life from myself. You are my life. I yield this moment to You. By Your Spirit, express what belongs to You here.
That is not a formula.
It is faith turning from self as source.
Let the Word expose Haman’s disguises
Haman did not introduce himself as the enemy of the kingdom. He stood near the center of power and acted in the king’s name.
The flesh also wears respectable clothing.
That is why Scripture matters.
The Spirit does not lead independently of the Word He inspired. He uses the Word to reveal motives, correct false interpretations, renew the mind, and bring our lives into agreement with Christ.
When control calls itself wisdom, Scripture teaches trust.
When people-pleasing calls itself love, Scripture teaches truthful love and the fear of the Lord.
When bitterness calls itself discernment, Scripture teaches forgiveness without denying justice.
When passivity calls itself abiding, Scripture calls us to real obedience.
When self-effort calls itself holiness, Scripture returns us to grace and the Spirit’s supply.
The Word does not merely give us better information.
It exposes the government under which we are operating.
Surrender is not earning
Esther’s statement, “If I perish, I perish,” can become harmful if it is turned into a new law:
If I surrender intensely enough, God will finally give me victory.
That is not the gospel.
You do not surrender in order to become accepted.
You surrender because you are accepted in Christ.
You do not present yourself to God so that He will make you His child.
You present yourself because He has already made you alive in His Son.
You do not yield to obtain the Holy Spirit.
You yield because the Spirit already dwells within you.
The order matters.
Identity comes before application.
Union comes before fruit.
Grace comes before obedience.
Christ’s finished work comes before the believer’s walk.
Your mind, emotions, and will still matter
The exchanged life does not bypass human agency.
God does not call us to stop thinking.
He renews the mind.
He does not call us to deny emotion.
He teaches us to bring emotion into His presence and under His truth.
He does not destroy the will.
He works in us both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
The Spirit-filled believer is not less human.
The Spirit brings the believer’s humanity under the lordship of Christ and increasingly restores it toward God’s purpose.
The king in the illustration does not disappear.
He comes under a new government.
Yield in the ordinary moment
The great reversal in Esther unfolds through banquets, conversations, timing, decisions, public records, sleeplessness, and ordinary actions.
The exchanged life is also expressed in ordinary moments.
When you are tempted to defend yourself.
When fear urges you to hide.
When anger wants to speak first.
When control demands certainty.
When appetite promises relief.
When approval feels necessary.
When the Word exposes something you would prefer not to see.
The invitation is not to produce a spiritual feeling.
It is to return to Christ.
Lord, this is where the flesh is trying to rule. I belong to You. Let the life of Jesus be expressed here by Your Spirit.
Then take the faithful step the Word requires.
Speak truth.
Confess sin.
Forgive.
Set the boundary.
Serve without seeking notice.
Refuse the hidden compromise.
Ask for help.
Wait without manipulating the outcome.
The step is yours.
The life is Christ’s.
The supply is the Spirit’s.
Return without condemnation when you fail
Believers sometimes hear teaching about the fullness of the Spirit and begin measuring themselves anxiously.
Was that Christ or me?
Did I yield enough?
Did I grieve the Spirit?
Have I lost the victory?
This can turn the exchanged life into another performance system.
The gospel gives us a better path.
When the flesh rules a moment, bring it into the light.
Confess without collapse.
Repent without bargaining.
Receive the cleansing Christ has already secured.
Return to dependence.
The Spirit’s correction is not evidence that He has abandoned you.
It is evidence of His active work in a child whom the Father has already received.
The fullness of the Spirit serves God’s people
Esther’s surrender was not only about her private spiritual experience.
Her people were facing destruction.
In the same way, the Spirit-filled life is not primarily about achieving an inward state for ourselves. The Spirit expresses Christ’s life through us for the good of others.
His love serves.
His courage speaks.
His mercy moves toward the wounded.
His truth exposes evil.
His patience remains.
His generosity gives.
His holiness refuses compromise.
His life makes Christ visible.
The question is not merely, “Am I experiencing victory?”
The better question is:
Is the life of Jesus being expressed through me for the Father’s glory and the good of His people?
The Greater Deliverance
Purim celebrates Israel’s rescue from Haman’s decree.
Christians celebrate an even greater deliverance.
The decree against us was not unjust.
We were truly guilty.
Sin’s judgment was righteous.
We could not reverse the verdict.
But the Son of God entered our condition.
He bore the curse.
He was hanged on the tree.
He died.
He rose.
He disarmed the rulers and authorities.
He transferred us from darkness into His kingdom.
He gave us His Spirit.
He became our life.
Esther risked death to secure deliverance for her people.
Jesus entered death and conquered it.
That is the foundation of every exchanged-life truth.
We do not begin with our surrender.
We begin with His.
We do not begin with our courage.
We begin with His cross.
We do not begin with our ability to defeat the flesh.
We begin with the old self crucified with Christ and the risen Christ now living in us by the Spirit.
The palace is no longer under Haman’s rightful rule.
The King of kings has acted.
For Deeper Reflection
Where does the flesh most often attempt to govern your mind, emotions, will, or body?
Which respectable name does self-reliance use in your life, responsibility, caution, love, conviction, discipline, or wisdom?
Are you trying to defeat the flesh through stronger self-effort?
What does Esther’s statement, “If I perish, I perish,” help you see about surrendering self-rule?
Where are you carrying out Christian activity while still asking the flesh to supply the life?
What would it mean to let the Word expose the true government operating in a current struggle?
Have you confused the fullness of the Spirit with passivity, emotional intensity, or loss of personality?
Where is the Spirit leading you into a concrete act of obedience from Christ as your life?
How does the great reversal in Esther help you understand the greater victory of the cross?
A Prayer of Return
Father, thank You for Your hidden providence and Your promise-keeping faithfulness. Thank You that the deliverance in Esther points us toward the greater rescue accomplished by Your Son.
Thank You that in Christ I have died and been raised. Thank You that I am accepted in the Beloved, indwelt by the Spirit, and no longer obligated to live under the rule of the flesh.
Bring into the light every place where self-protection, pride, fear, appetite, control, or religious self-effort has been governing me.
Lord Jesus, You are my life. I yield my mind, emotions, will, words, relationships, and body to You. By Your Spirit and through Your Word, express Your life in me.
Keep me from turning surrender into another performance. Teach me to obey from acceptance, live from union, and return without condemnation when I fail.
Let Your life and likeness be seen through me for the good of others and the glory of the Father.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Scripture Trail for Further Study
Esther 1-10
Genesis 3:15
Genesis 12:1-3
2 Samuel 7:12-16
Romans 6:1-14
Romans 7:14-25
Romans 8:1-17
Romans 12:1-2
Galatians 2:20
Galatians 5:16-25
Ephesians 1:3-14
Ephesians 4:20-32
Ephesians 5:15-21
Philippians 2:12-13
Colossians 1:11-14
Colossians 3:1-17
1 Thessalonians 5:19-24
John 15:1-11
Luke 9:23-24