Psalms 16:9
Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.
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Psalms 16:9
Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.
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Genesis 49:10
The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
Deuteronomy 18:15
The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;
2 Samuel 7:12
And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.
2 Samuel 7:13
He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;
2 Samuel 7:15
But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
2 Samuel 7:16
And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,
2 Samuel 23:4
It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.
Psalms 2:7
I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
Psalms 72:17
May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.
Psalms 89:29
His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.
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Exodus 24:16
And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.
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Numbers 9:17
And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.
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Deuteronomy 33:20
Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.
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2 Samuel 7:20
What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.
2 Samuel 7:21
Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.
2 Samuel 7:22
Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.
2 Samuel 7:23
And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?
2 Samuel 7:24
But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
2 Samuel 7:25
And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said!
2 Samuel 7:26
And let your name be made great for ever, and let men say, The Lord of armies is God over Israel: and let the family of David your servant be made strong before you!
2 Samuel 7:27
For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.
2 Samuel 7:28
And now, O Lord God, you are God and your words are true and you have said you will give your servant this good thing;
2 Samuel 7:29
So may it be your pleasure to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you: (for you, O Lord God, have said it,) and may your blessing be on your servant's family line for ever!
Psalms 108:7
This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth.
2 Peter 1:4
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
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Job 4:15
And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:
Psalms 3:5
I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
Psalms 4:8
I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
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Job 14:14
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
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Job 14:15
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
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Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
Luke 18:32
For he will be given up to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and put to shame:
John 10:18
No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.
Acts 10:40
On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,
Acts 26:8
Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?
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Psalms 21:4
He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.
Psalms 29:10
The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.
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Psalms 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
Psalms 33:21
For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.
Psalms 68:3
But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.
Psalms 68:4
Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.
Isaiah 61:10
I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
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Psalms 44:25
For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.
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Psalms 51:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
Psalms 51:2
Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
Psalms 51:7
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Hosea 7:2
And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
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2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.
Job 30:15
Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
Psalms 56:4
In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.
Psalms 78:39
So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
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Psalms 57:9
I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make songs to you among the nations.
Psalms 108:3
I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make melody to you among the nations.
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Psalms 63:2
To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.
Psalms 63:5
My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
Psalms 63:6
When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
Psalms 63:7
Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.
Psalms 139:3
You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
Psalms 139:18
If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
Psalms 149:5
Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.
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Psalms 35:28
And my tongue will be talking of your righteousness and of your praise all the day.
Psalms 51:14
Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
Psalms 62:4
Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
Psalms 71:8
My mouth will be full of your praise and glory all the day.
Psalms 71:15
My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
Psalms 145:1
A Song of praise. Of David. Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.
Psalms 145:2
Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever.
Psalms 145:21
My mouth will give praise to the Lord; let all flesh be blessing his holy name for ever and ever.
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Psalms 22:22
I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.
Psalms 22:25
My praise will be of you in the great meeting: I will make my offerings before his worshippers.
Psalms 22:26
The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
Psalms 66:16
Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.
Psalms 71:17
O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.
Psalms 71:18
Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
Psalms 112:1
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
Malachi 3:16
Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.
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Psalms 78:26
He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.
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Numbers 24:2
And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him.
2 Samuel 23:2
The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.
2 Samuel 23:5
For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
Psalms 89:36
His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
Psalms 132:11
The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Ezekiel 37:25
And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.
Daniel 7:13
I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.
Daniel 7:14
And to him was given authority and glory and a kingdom; and all peoples, nations, and languages were his servants: his authority is an eternal authority which will not come to an end, and his kingdom is one which will not come to destruction.
Micah 5:2
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
Luke 1:33
He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
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Psalms 107:20
He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.
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Psalms 18:4
The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
Psalms 18:5
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Psalms 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
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Isaiah 41:25
I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.
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Ezekiel 19:4
And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
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Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.
Matthew 12:38
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.
Matthew 12:39
But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
Matthew 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Isaiah 57:1
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
Isaiah 57:2
They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
Luke 24:45
Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.
Luke 24:46
And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;
Luke 24:47
And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.
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Luke 2:17
And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.
Luke 2:38
And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.
Luke 8:39
Go back to your house and let them have news of all the great things which God has done for you. And he went away, giving word through all the town of the great things which Jesus had done for him.
John 1:41
Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).
John 1:42
And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).
John 1:43
The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.
John 1:44
Now Philip's town was Beth-saida, where Andrew and Peter came from.
John 1:46
Nazareth! said Nathanael, Is it possible for any good to come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.
John 4:28
Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people,
John 4:29
Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?
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Acts 2:19
And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:
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Psalms 68:18
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
Zechariah 13:7
Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.
Acts 2:30
But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,
Acts 2:32
This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.
Acts 2:33
And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.
Acts 2:36
For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.
Acts 13:34
And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.
Acts 13:36
Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
Acts 17:3
Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.
Acts 18:28
For he overcame the Jews in public discussion, making clear from the holy Writings that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 26:23
That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.
Romans 1:4
But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,
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1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:46
But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:48
Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:49
And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.
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2 Corinthians 5:12
We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.
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Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.
Luke 10:22
All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
John 2:22
So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.
Acts 2:29
My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.
Acts 2:31
He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.
Acts 4:10
Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.
Acts 13:35
Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.
Acts 13:37
But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.
Ephesians 1:20
By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
Hebrews 10:12
But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10:13
And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,
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Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.
Matthew 22:29
But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
Matthew 27:52
And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;
Romans 4:17
(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.
Philippians 3:21
By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;
Revelation 1:7
See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.
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Isaiah 25:8
He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
Matthew 27:53
And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.
John 6:51
I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
John 14:19
A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.
1 Corinthians 15:23
But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.
Colossians 3:4
At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,
Hebrews 7:25
So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,
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Luke 23:43
And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
Colossians 3:3
For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
Hebrews 7:16
That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
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Hebrews 11:22
By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.
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Proverbs 14:30
A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
Ephesians 5:4
And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
James 3:7
For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;
James 3:8
But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
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Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.
Matthew 5:8
Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.
Romans 5:5
And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
Romans 8:24
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
Romans 15:4
Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
1 Peter 1:5
Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 1:10
For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;
1 Peter 1:12
And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.
1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
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2 Peter 1:3
Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
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Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
Romans 8:18
I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;
Colossians 1:5
Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,
Colossians 1:27
To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;
Hebrews 4:1
Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.
1 Peter 1:6
You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,
1 Peter 1:9
For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 3:16
Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
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