"None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." (Romans 3:10-18)
" Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is this not what it means to know me?" (Jeremiah 22:15-16)
" Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God. " (3 John 1:11)
" Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. " (Psalm 51:5-7)
" Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? " (Romans 2:1-3)
" For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. For He who said, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," also said, "DO NOT COMMIT MURDER." Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. " (James 2:10-12)
" Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin"? " (Proverbs 20:9)
" Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins. " (Ecclesiastes 7:20)
" What is man, that he should be pure, or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in His sight; how much less one who is detestable and corrupt, man, who drinks iniquity like water! " (Job 15:14-16, Job 25:3-6)
" If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared. " (Psalm 130:4-5)
" If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account. But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. " (Exodus 22:2-3)
" (the Pharisees) who devour widows' houses, and for appearance's sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation. " (Matthew 23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47)
"The trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. " (Romans 7:14-24)
" Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes. For it flatters him in his own eyes concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it. " (Psalm 36:2)
" I do not even judge myself. For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. " (1 Corinthians 4:3-5)
" I have borne chastisement; I will not offend anymore; Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will not do it again. " (Job 34:31-32)
" is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. " (Hebrews 4:12-13)
"He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge — the LORD — knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath." (Psalm 94:9-11)
" What is man that You magnify him, And that You are concerned about him, That You examine him every morning And try him every moment? Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle? " (Job 7:17-19)
" And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the law, will he not judge you who though having the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? " (Romans 3:27)
" If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth, How much more the wicked and the sinner! " (Proverbs 11:31)
" Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO PLAY." Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents. Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. " (1 Corinthians 10:6-11)
"The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to His heart." (Genesis 6:5-6)
" God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day. " (Psalm 7:11)
" The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates. " (Psalms 11:5)
" For our God is a consuming fire. " (Hebrews 12:29)
" To the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountain top. " (Exodus 24:17)
" If you say, "See, we did not know this," Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul? And will He not render to man according to his work? " (Proverbs 24:12)
" But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My Word. " (Isaiah 66:2)
" The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. " (Psalms 51:17)
" The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. " (Proverbs 1:7)
" Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity? " (Job 2:10)
" The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. " (2 Peter 3:9)
" For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. " (Exodus 34:14)
" For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. " (Deuteronomy 4:24)
" For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised. " (Song of Solomon 8:6)
" Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"? " (James 4:5)
" Jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance. He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts. " (Proverbs 6:34-35)
" Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy? " (Proverbs 27:4)
" Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him. " (Proverbs 22:15)
" Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. " (Revelation 3:19)
" They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. " (Deuteronomy 32:21)
" Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy." (Numbers 25:11)
" All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw, they trembled and stood at a distance. Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die." " (Exodus 20:18-20)
" He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter. " (1 Samuel 6:19)
" For they (scoffers) deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. " (2 Peter 3:3-9)
"I will discipline you, but with justice; I cannot let you go unpunished." (Jeremiah 46:28)
" Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil. " (Ecclesiastes 8:11)
" A day of wrath is that day, A day of trouble and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of trumpet and battle cry Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers. I will bring distress on men So that they will walk like the blind, Because they have sinned against the LORD; And their blood will be poured out like dust And their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold Will be able to deliver them On the day of the LORD'S wrath; And all the earth will be devoured In the fire of His jealousy, For He will make a complete end, Indeed a terrifying one, Of all the inhabitants of the earth. " (Zephaniah 1:15-18)
" Alas, you who are longing for the day of the LORD, For what purpose will the day of the LORD be to you? It will be darkness and not light; As when a man flees from a lion And a bear meets him, Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall And a snake bites him. Will not the day of the LORD be darkness instead of light, Even gloom with no brightness in it? " (Amos 5:18-20)
" So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. " (James 2:12-13)
"For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? AND IF IT IS WITH DIFFICULTY THAT THE RIGHTEOUS IS SAVED, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE GODLESS MAN AND THE SINNER?" (1 Peter 4:17-18)
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. " (Matthew 7:13,14)
"With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. " (Matthew 19:23-30)
"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." (Isaiah 22:13)
"Wreched and miserable man that I am! Who will free me from this body of sin and death?" (Romans 7:24)
"It (The command) is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it." (Deuteronomy 30:12-14)
" All a man's labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied. " (Ecclesiastes 6:7)
" The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure. " (Ecclesiastes 7:4)
" All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. " (Ecclesiastes 1:8)
" I have sinned and perverted what is right, And it is not proper for me. " (Job 33:27)
" I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. (...) And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. " (Ecclesiastes 2:1-11)
" I have seen everything during my lifetime of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness. " (Ecclesiastes 7:15)
" There is futility which is done on the earth, that is, there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked. On the other hand, there are evil men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I say that this too is futility. " (Ecclesiastes 8:14)
" I said to myself, "God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man," for a time for every matter and for every deed is there. " (Ecclesiastes 3:17)
" She who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. " (1 Timothy 5:6)
" So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. " (Ecclesiastes 8:15)
" I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime; moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor - it is the gift of God. " (Ecclesiastes 3:12-13)
" I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind. " (Ecclesiastes 4:4)
" And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind. " (Ecclesiastes 1:13-14)
" There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. (...) This too is vanity and it is a grievous task. " (Ecclesiastes 4:8)
" For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity. " (Ecclesiastes 3:19)
" I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity. " (Ecclesiastes 2:18-23)
" Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return. " (Genesis 3:18-20)
" See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand. " (Deuteronomy 33:39-42)
" I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. (...) The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. " (Isaiah 45:5-7)
" There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God. For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him? For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God's sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind. " (Ecclesiastes 2:24-26)
" One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind. " (Ecclesiastes 4:6)
" You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. " (Jeremiah 29:13)
"For he sees that even wise men die; The stupid and the senseless alike perish And leave their wealth to others." (Psalms 49:10)
" When he dies he will carry nothing away; His glory will not descend after him. Though while he lives he congratulates himself—And though men praise you when you do well for yourself— He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see the light. " (Psalms 49:17-19)
" Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish. " (Psalms 49:20)
" There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men— a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction. " (Ecclesiastes 6:1-2)
" He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. " (Ecclesiastes 5:10)
" The LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. " (Genesis 2:7)
" The dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. " (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
" As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind? " (Ecclesiastes 5:15-17)
" The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. " (Psalm 24:1)
" No man can by any means redeem his brother Or give to God a ransom for him — For the redemption of his soul is costly, And he should cease trying forever — That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay. " (Psalm 49:7-9)
" There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, and those riches were lost in a bad venture. " (Ecclesiastes 1:12)
" The love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. " (1 Timothy 6:9-10)
" Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. " (James 5:3-5)
" But God said to him, "Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?" So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God." (Luke 12:15-21)
" And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.' And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house— for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!' But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.' " (Luke 16:20-31)
" treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. " (Matthew 6:20-21)
" Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart. " (Ecclesiastes 5:19-20)
" For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street. " (Ecclesiastes 12:5)
" Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever, Their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. " (Psalm 49:11)
" He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
" The hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead. But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun. " (Ecclesiastes 9:3-10)
" No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it. " (Ecclesiastes 8:8)
" Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a trecherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them. " (Ecclesiastes 9:12)
"Woe to him who strives with Him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’" (Isaiah 45:9-10)
" LORD, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. " (Psalm 39:4-6)
" Teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom. " (Psalm 90:12)
" I concluded that God is testing us, to show us that we are no better than animals. After all, the same fate awaits human beings and animals alike. One dies just like the other. They are both the same kind of creature. A human being is no better off than an animal, because life has no meaning for either. They are both going to the same place — the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it. How can anyone be sure that the human spirit goes upwards while an animal's spirit goes down into the ground? " (Ecclesiastes 3:18-21)
" Then I said to myself, "As is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise?" So I said to myself, "This too is vanity." For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die! " (Ecclesiastes 2:15-16)
" Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. " (Matthew 5:7)
""The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. " (Romans 10:8-13)
"THANK GOD! THE ANSWER IS IN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD." (Romans 7:25)
" And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? " (Isaiah 53:8)
"And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. " (John 12:32)
" Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. " (Psalm 90:11)
" "Must Jonathan die, who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die. " (1 Samuel 14:45)
" Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. " (Galatians 3:13-14)
" Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. " (Hebrews 2:9)
" For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes." (Romans 10:4)
" For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. " (1 John 5:4)
" You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. " (Exodus 31:13)
" Sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. " (Romans 6:14)
" It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. " (John 6:63)
" The person who does these things will live by them. " (Romans 10:5)
" THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART. " (Romans 10:8-13)
" They repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, And my prayer kept returning to my bosom. I went about as though it were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother. " (Psalms 35:11-14)
" Take, eat; this is My body. " (Matthew 26:26)
" If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. " (Luke 14:26)
" It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. " (Galatians 3:1)
" They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.” " (Exodus 17:3-7)
" for the LORD hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD. " (Exodus 16:6-8)
" You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish. " (John 11:49-52)
" But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. " (Galatians 6:14)
" the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. " (John 3:19)
" For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and [then] have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned. But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way. " (Hebrews 6:4-9)
" And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. " (Psalm 34:22)
" Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. " (Romans 8:1)
" The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. " (Psalm 121:5-8)
" Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever. " (Psalm 125:1)
" It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes. " (Psalm 118:8-9)
" Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. " (Psalm 146:3-6)
" For this is contained in Scripture: "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED." This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, "THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone," and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. " (1 Peter 2:6-8)
" Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Be on your guard before Him and obey His voice; do not be rebellious toward Him, for He will not pardon your transgression since My name is in Him. " (Exodus 23:20-21)
" For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. " (Hebrews 10:26-27)
" When we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world. " (1 Corinthians 11:30-32)
"But in those (sacrifices) there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." (Hebrews 10:3-4)
" life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. " (Deuteronomy 19:21)
" Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. " (Hebrews 13:11)
" Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! " (John 1:29)
" We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. " (Hebrews 13:10)
" And Jesus said to them, "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?" Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. " (Luke 24:13-35)
" Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. " (Hebrews 10:18-22)
" I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. " (John 14:6)
" Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. " (1 Corinthians 5:7-8)
" If they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been taken captive, and pray toward their land which You have given to their fathers and the city which You have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Your name, then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people who have sinned against You. " (2 Chronicles 6:46-49)
" Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. " (1 Samuel 15:22)
" You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. " (1 John 3:5-6)
"Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues." (Revelation 18:4)
" This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. " (Genesis 9:12-17)
" For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you Nor will I rebuke you. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken. " (Isaiah 54:9-10)
" Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. " (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
" Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. " (John 10:1-18)
" For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest," declares the Lord GOD. "I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment." " (Ezekiel 34:11-31)
" I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. " (Luke 11:9-10)
" See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. " (Revelation 5:5)
" Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way? " (Matthew 26:53-54)
" I am God, your God. I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me. I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds. For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains. Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats? Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High; Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me. " (Psalm 50:7-15)
" Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. " (John 6:53)
" Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’ Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers. For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him. " (Genesis 44:18-34)
" "Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin?" Then the LORD said, "Judah shall go up first." " (Judges 20:18)
" "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?" The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand." " (Judges 1:1-2)
" For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. " (Romans 5:6-11)
" Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate. " (Hebrews 13:12)
" He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. " (Psalm 103:10-13)
" He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea. " (Micah 7:19)
" But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. " (Isaha 53:10)
" By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for, And by the fear of the LORD one keeps away from evil. " (Proverbs 16:6)
" And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma (of Noah's sacrifice). Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done." " (Genesis 8:21)
" In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice. " (Genesis 22:18)
" Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so the plague was stayed. And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever. " (Psalms 106:30-31)
" Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. " (Romans 5:12-20)
" For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. " (1 Corinthians 15:21-22)
" If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us. " (1 John 1:8)
" When I kept silent [about my sin,] my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away [as] with the fever heat of summer. Selah. I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; And You forgave the guilt of my sin. " (Psalm 32:3-5)
" O LORD, rebuke me not in Your wrath, And chasten me not in Your burning anger. For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation; There is no health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities are gone over my head; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me. My wounds grow foul [and] fester Because of my folly. I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go mourning all day long. For my loins are filled with burning, And there is no soundness in my flesh. I am benumbed [deprived of sensation] and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You. My heart throbs, my strength fails me; And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me. My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off. Those who seek my life lay snares [for me;] And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they devise treachery all day long. But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And [I am] like a mute man who does not open his mouth. Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments. For I hope in You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God. For I said, "May they not rejoice over me, [Who,] when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me." For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me. For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin. But my enemies are vigorous [and] strong, And many are those who hate me wrongfully. And those who repay evil for good, They oppose me, because I follow what is good. Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me! Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation! " (Psalm 38:1-22)
" The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! " (Matthew 6:22-23)
" Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food? " (Job 12:11)
" the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. " (Matthew 15:17-20)
" Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither [can] you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. " (John 15:3-5)
" If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. " (John 8:31-32)
" A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, But to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. " (Proverbs 27:7)
" My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12)
" Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. " (Hebrews 13:9-10)
" Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. " (John 6:53-56)
" Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. " (Matthew 5:6)
" Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. " (Isaiah 55:1-3)
" Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal. (...) This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent. (...) For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world. (...) I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. " (John 6:27-35)
" Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. " (Exodus 33:13)
" "AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU, AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU." Behold, now is "THE ACCEPTABLE TIME," behold, now is "THE DAY OF SALVATION." " (2 Corinthians 6:2)
" You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. " (Hebrews 12:4)
" They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. " (Revelation 12:11)
" Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, the Son of Man must also be lifted up. So that everyone who believes can have eternal life in him. " (John 3:14-15)
" Should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? " (Isaiah 8:19-20)
" He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan. " (2 Kings 18:4)
" I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. " (Revelation 1:18)
" How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? " (Mark 4:30)
" You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. " (John 5:39-40)
" Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. " (Hebrews 2:14-15)
" For the meaning of Jesus Christ's death was made as clear to you as if you had seen a picture of his death on the cross." (Galatians 3:1)
" Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (John 20:29)
" I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God." (Genesis 45:4-5)
" But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting [Him] to grief; If He would render Himself [as] a guilt offering, He will see [His] offspring, He will prolong [His] days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. " (Isaiah 53:10)
" O Lord God, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes! " (Judges 16:28)
" Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me. " (Psalm 41:9)
" for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. " (Revelation 12:10-12)
" Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way? " (Matthew 26:52-53)
" The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father. " (John 10:17-18)
" Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. " (John 16:11)
" When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through the cross. " (Colosians 2:13-14)
" Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself. " (John 12:31-32)
" Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.") No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us." (Romans 8:35-37)
" The Son is the visible image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. " (Colossians 1:15)
" Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father"? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak are not My own, but My Father who lives in Me does His work through Me. " (John 14:9)
" For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. " (Isaiah 9:6)
"In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us [apostles] the message of reconciliation. " (2 Corinthians 5:18)
"For He is gracious to the ungrateful and the evil. " (Luke 6:35)
"For He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:45)
"For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (Romans 5:10)
"They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into My mind." (Jeremiah 19:5)
" In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice. " (Genesis 22:18)
" He [Abraham] considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him [Isaac] back as a type. " (Hebrews 11:19)
"God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering." (Genesis 22:8)
" Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you. " (Genesis 22:5)
" Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD it will be provided." " (Gensis 22:14)
" If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. " (Isaiah 53:10)
" Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. " (Isaiah 8:18, Hebrews 2:13)
" Even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved. " (Ephesians 2:5)
" When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions. " (Colossians 2:13-14)
" Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God. " (Colossians 2:18-19)
"By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked." (1 John 2:5-6)
" As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, "YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY." If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. " (1 Peter 1:14-19)
"And the indictment which my adversary has written, surely I would carry it on my shoulder, I would bind it to myself like a crown." (Job 31:35-36)
"JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." (John 19:19)
" I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. " (Galatians 2:2)
" For we walk by faith, not by sight. " (2 Corinthians 5:7)
" not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; " (Romans 12:11)
" As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. " (Matthew 13:22)
" Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. " (1 Corinthians 9:25-27)
" Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. " (Hebrews 12:2)
" If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." (Genesis 4:7)
" I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness. " (2 Timothy 4:8)
" Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. " (Matthew 7:21)
"So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy." (Romans 9:16)
" If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!" (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence. " (Colossians 2:20-23)
" The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. " (2 Corinthians 5:17)
" But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust. " (1 Timothy 1:8-11)
" So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. " (Galatians 5:16-22)
" But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin." (Romans 14:23)
" But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. (...) But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. (...) But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. " (Matthew 6:3-18)
" For the ear tests words as the palate tastes food. " (Job 34:3)
" Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her, That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom. " (Isaiah 66:10-11)
" My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste; Know that wisdom is thus for your soul; If you find it, then there will be a future, And your hope will not be cut off. " (Proverbs 24:13-14)
" As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him." (1 John 2:27)
" The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. " (Matthew 6:22)
" For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. " (Matthew 12:33-35)
" Do not associate with a man given to anger; Or go with a hot-tempered man, Or you will learn his ways And find a snare for yourself. " (Proverbs 22:24-25)
" Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever. " (John 6:53-59)
" If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. " (John 15:10)
" The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. " (1 John 3:24, 1 John 4:13)
" What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.” " (Romans 9:30-33)
" Let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD. " (Jeremiah 9:24)
" The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. " (Romans 14:22)
" Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease. " (Mark 5:34)
" Recover your sight; your faith has made you well. " (Luke 18:42)
" And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh. " (Ezekiel 11:19)
" In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ. " (Colossians 2:11)
" For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. " (Jeremiah 31:33)
" Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. " (Matthew 16:16)
" The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. " (John 7:7)
" And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the Gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of His glory. " (Ephesians 1:13-14)
" He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left. " (Isaiah 30:20-21)
" When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. " (Proverbs 6:22)
" Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away, But the word of the LORD endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you. " (1 Peter 1:22-25)
" There is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. " (Romans 3:28,29)
" Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. " (John 3:5-7)
" I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word. " (John 17:20)
" Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. " (Mark 16:15-16)
" He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you. " (John 13:10)
" You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. " (John 15:3)
" For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. " (Mark 9:49)
" For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free persons, and all were made to drink one Spirit." (1 Corinthians 12:13)
" Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. " (1 Corinthians 13:4-13)
" I have been crucified with Christ. " (Galatians 2:20-21)
" Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. " (Galatians 5:24-26)
" Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself." (Acts 2:38-39)
" I never knew you. Away from Me, you evildoers! " (Matthew 7:23)
" Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’" (Matthew 7:21-23)
" Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? " (Luke 6:46)
" Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. " (Luke 13:4-5)
" There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. " (1 Peter 3:21)
" Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live a new way of life. " (Romans 6:4)
"Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. " (Acts 2:28)
" Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God. " (Luke 9:60)
" Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet. " (2 Kings 13:32)
" For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. " (2 Corinthains 4:11)
" And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord. " (Acts 22:16)
" As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. " (Genesis 50:20)
" If these things (the resurrection from the dead) are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? " (1 Corinthians 15:29)
" The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel. " (Mark 1:15)
" For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. " (Galatians 5:6)
" A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. " (John 13:34-35)
" Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you." (1 Timothy 4:16)
" Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. " (John 14:1)
" For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me. " (Exodus 20:5)
" Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. (...) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. (...) for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. " (Ephesians 5:1-33)
" "He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?" Declares the LORD. " (Jeremiah 22:15,16)
" This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. " (John 17:3)
" If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here. For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?" (Exodus 33:15-16)
" I will also meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory." (Exodus 29:43)
" Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do;" " (Genesis 21:22)
" We have certainly seen that the LORD is with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a covenant with you.' " (Genesis 26:28)
" As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy. " (1 Peter 1:14)
" So that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit." (Romans 15:16)
"Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be sanctified in truth. " (John 17:17-19)
" Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. " (Ephesians 5:25-27)
" that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me." (Acts 26:18)
" God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth." (2 Thessalonians 2:13)
" Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate. " (Hebrews 13:12)
" Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter (common articles), he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work. " (2 Timothy 2:21)
" It is Godʼs will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit. " (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8)
" Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. " (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
" If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. " (John 14:15)
" If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. " (John 15:10)
" If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? " (Luke 11:13)
" And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. " (Matthew 21:22, Mark 11:24, James 1:6-8)
" Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. " (Matthew 7:7-8)
" Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return. " (Luke 6:38)
" Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions. " (Mark 11:25-26)
" having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE,” we also believe, therefore we also speak. " (2 Corinthians 4:13)
" But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. " (1 Peter 3:15)
" As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' " (Romans 10:11-13)
" So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. " (Hebrews 13:12-15)
" For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, "I WILL PROCLAIM YOUR NAME TO MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION I WILL SING YOUR PRAISE." " (Hebrews 2:11-12)
" I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges Me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever disowns Me before others will be disowned before the angels of God. " (Luke 12:8-9)
" Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. " (Ezra 7:10)
" For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me. " (2 Corinthains 12:6)
" But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works. " (Psalm 73:28)
" For many are called, but few are chosen. " (Matthew 22:14)
" However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth? " (Luke 18:8)
" My beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. " (Philippians 2:12-13)
" As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. " (Ephesians 4:1)
" He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. " (Matthew 10:37-38)
" Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets. " (Luke 6:23)
" Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. " (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
" But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. " (Ephesians 5:3-5)
" The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. " (Galatians 5:19-21)
" But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. " (Revelation 21:8)
" Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. " (1 Corinthians 15:50)
" Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning? He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil; He will dwell on the heights, His refuge will be the impregnable rock; His bread will be given him, His water will be sure. " (Isaiah 33:14-16)
" Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood And has not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face—even Jacob. Selah. " (Psalms 24:2-6)
" O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart. He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach against his friend; In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honors those who fear the LORD; He swears to his own hurt and does not change; He does not put out his money at interest, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken." (Psalms 15:1-5)
" Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you. " (2 Peter 1:5-11)
" But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. " (James 1:22-25)
" For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. " (Hebrews 5:12-14)
" For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. " (2 Peter 1:5-9)
" Only fear the LORD and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you. " (1 Samuel 12:24)
" Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy." (James 5:7-11)
" Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. " (1 Corinthians 15:1-8)
" But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die. All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live. Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked," declares the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should turn from his ways and live? But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die. " (Ezekiel 18:21-24)
" No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. " (1 John 3:9)
" I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. " (John 10:28-29)
" It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down. It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down. And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper. " (Daniel 8:10-12)
" It is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour. " (1 John 2:18)
" Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. " (Matthew 16:17)
" No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. " (John 6:44-45)
" If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. " (Romans 8:11)
"If indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. " (Romans 8:17)
"If we died with Him, we will live with Him. If we endure, we shall also regin with Him. " (2 Timothy 2:11)
" I always do the things that are pleasing to Him. " (John 8:29)
" For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. " (John 6:38)
" By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. " (1 John 2:5-6)
" Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. " (1 Peter 4:1)
" For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised." (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
" Take courage; I have overcome the world. " (John 16:33)
" Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! " (1 Corinthians 15:12-57)
" But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. " (Matthew 22:29-32)
" Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, "Lo, your salvation comes; Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him." " (Isaiah 62:11)
" I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. " (Philippians 3:7-11)
" What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. " (1 Corinthians 15:35-48)
" For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into comformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. " (Philippians 3:20-21)
" Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. " (Daniel 12:3)
" In your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound and the winged creature will make the matter known. " (Ecclesiastes 10:20)
" If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each personʼs work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved — even though only as one escaping through the flames. " (1 Corinthians 3:12-15)
" By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. " (1 John 4:17-18)
" Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. " (Matthew 7:6)
" Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also. " (Genesis 38:9-10)
"To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. (...)He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death. (...) To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it. (...) And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father; and I will give him the morning star. (...) He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. (...) He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. (...)To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne. (...) He who overcomes will inherit these things (the new heavens and the new earth), and I will be his God and he will be My son. " (Revelation 2:1-3:22)
" Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life." (Mark 10:29-30)
" All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them. " (Hebrews 11:13-15)
" Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. " (1 Peter 2:11)
" Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels." (Matthew 25:41)
" The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. " (Romans 6:23)
" Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared." (Exodus 23:20)
" In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also." (John 14:2-3)
" In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old. " (Isaiah 63:9)
" Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, And the righteous will walk in them, But transgressors will stumble in them. " (Hosea 14:9)
" Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. " (John 15:20)
" A worker's appetite works for him, For his hunger urges him on. " (Proverbs 16:26)
" If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. " (John 8:32)
" For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God? And, If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? " (1 Peter 4:17-18)
" With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. " (Matthew 19:26)
" I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. " (Philippians 4:13)
" The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. " (Ecclesiastes: 7:8)
" Woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full. Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. " (Luke 6:24-25)
" Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.” And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.” " (Revelation 21:1-5)
" For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. " (Isaiah 65:17-19)
"Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come. " (Isaiah 41:22)
"And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. " (Luke 17:26-27)
"It was the same as it happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. " (Luke 17:28-29)
"I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! " (Luke 12:49)
"What men value highly is detestable in God's sight. " (Luke 16:15)
" No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. " (Matthew 6:24)
"Remember Lot's wife. " (Luke 17:32)
" No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. " (Luke 9:62)
" For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. " (2 Corinthians 4:6)
" spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. " (Ephesians 6:12)
" And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. " (Matthew 11:12)
" The Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. " (Galatians 4:26)
" You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. " (1 Peter 2:4-5)
" I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. " (Revelation 3:12)