I think the answer to that question would be how many different commands are there given to us in the New Testament. As we pursue holiness at the beginning of our journey we are working on bigger, badder, more obvious sins, and as we grow the sins we work on are more subtle, less obvious, and you may not even have called them a sin in the beginning of your journey. For me a lot of my sins are committed in my head, my thinking. There is bitter thinking, covetous thinking, immoral thinking, judgmental thinking, prideful thinking, self-pity thinking, and ungrateful thinking. Because no knows what I am thinking there is often a carelessness in our thinking and a lack of self-control. Matthew 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts

2 Corinthians 7:1 let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness

If that is our goal, then we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming more and more critical in our evaluation about our righteousness or lack of and fine-tuning our conscience to see the little and minor flaws in ourselves.

Some might think that all that self-examination would cause us to be depressed and discouraged with who we are, but that isn’t true for me, and I don’t think it is for anybody else, either.