Philippians 3:14
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
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Philippians 3:14
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
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Genesis 19:17
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.
Luke 17:31
On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.
Luke 17:32
Keep in mind Lot's wife.
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Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:
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Genesis 49:27
Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.
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Leviticus 11:44
For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
Leviticus 19:2
Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
Leviticus 20:26
And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
Luke 6:36
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
1 Peter 1:16
Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.
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Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.
Nehemiah 7:2
I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.
Psalms 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
Psalms 37:4
So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
Psalms 101:6
My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant.
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.
Isaiah 64:5
Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
Acts 10:2
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
Acts 10:3
He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!
Acts 10:4
And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.
Acts 10:35
But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
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Joshua 3:12
So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.
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Joshua 3:16
Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.
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Joshua 13:2
This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
Luke 2:49
And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?
Luke 9:51
And it came about that when the days were near for him to be taken up, his face was turned to go to Jerusalem,
Luke 12:50
But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!
Acts 20:22
And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:
Acts 20:23
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
Acts 21:11
And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts 21:12
And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem.
Acts 21:13
Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 21:14
And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done.
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1 Samuel 2:8
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
Psalms 113:7
He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;
Psalms 113:8
To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.
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1 Kings 6:8
The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.
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1 Kings 8:18
But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;
Romans 15:24
Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--
3 John 1:6
Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:
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1 Kings 8:46
If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
Job 9:20
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
Psalms 19:12
Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.
Psalms 36:2
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
Psalms 65:3
Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Romans 7:24
How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
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2 Kings 20:3
O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
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1 Kings 8:61
Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.
1 Kings 11:4
For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
1 Kings 15:3
And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:14
The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
2 Chronicles 15:8
And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
2 Chronicles 25:2
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.
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Job 1:2
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
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Job 1:3
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
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Psalms 19:5
Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.
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Psalms 42:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah. Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
Psalms 63:2
To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.
Psalms 63:3
Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
Psalms 84:2
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
Psalms 119:20
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
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Psalms 94:15
But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.
1 Timothy 5:10
And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.
1 Peter 3:11
And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:13
Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?
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Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
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Isaiah 50:5
And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
Isaiah 50:6
I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.
Isaiah 50:7
For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.
Isaiah 50:8
He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Isaiah 50:9
See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.
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Jeremiah 2:2
Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
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Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 2:4
Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
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Ezekiel 1:9
They went without turning, every one went straight forward.
Ezekiel 1:12
Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.
Ezekiel 1:17
The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.
Ezekiel 10:22
As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.
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Matthew 4:2
And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
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Matthew 5:19
Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
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Job 17:9
Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
Psalms 92:14
They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
Psalms 119:110
Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.
Psalms 138:8
The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
Luke 11:13
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?
Luke 13:5
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
1 Corinthians 4:3
But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
2 Peter 1:5
So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Matthew 5:12
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
John 17:23
I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
John 17:24
Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
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.
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.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.
Philippians 3:18
For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.
Hebrews 10:14
Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.
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Genesis 32:26
And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.
Deuteronomy 10:20
Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.
Song of Solomon 3:4
I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it.
Matthew 26:41
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
John 6:27
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
John 15:4
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
Acts 10:33
So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.
1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
Colossians 1:13
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
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;
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
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Isaiah 9:2
The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
Isaiah 60:1
Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
Isaiah 60:2
For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
Luke 1:79
To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
Acts 26:28
And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.
Ephesians 5:8
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
Ephesians 5:10
Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
1 Thessalonians 5:4
But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
2 Peter 1:19
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
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Romans 1:11
For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;
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Romans 1:12
That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me.
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Romans 7:15
And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.
Romans 7:16
But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
Romans 7:19
For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.
Romans 7:20
But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
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Romans 11:29
Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;
1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
1 Thessalonians 5:24
God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.
James 5:7
Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
James 5:8
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
1 Peter 1:13
So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter 1:22
And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
2 Peter 1:7
And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.
2 Peter 1:8
For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:9
For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
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Galatians 1:6
I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;
Galatians 5:8
This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.
Galatians 5:10
I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.
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Isaiah 43:4
Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
Matthew 3:11
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
John 1:13
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
John 8:23
And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
Galatians 5:13
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.
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,
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Titus 3:7
So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.
Hebrews 6:20
Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
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Acts 10:36
The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
2 Corinthians 5:18
But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;
2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.
2 Corinthians 5:20
So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Ephesians 4:11
And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;
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Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
Galatians 5:24
And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
Ephesians 5:9
(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
Ephesians 5:18
And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
Colossians 1:6
Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
Colossians 1:10
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1 Thessalonians 1:5
Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
2 Timothy 2:22
But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
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Judges 18:9
And they said, Up! and let us go against Laish; for we have seen the land, and it is very good: why are you doing nothing? Do not be slow to go in and take the land for your heritage.
Proverbs 13:4
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
Proverbs 15:19
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Zephaniah 2:3
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
Romans 6:17
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
Romans 6:22
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
Romans 7:4
In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
Philippians 1:11
Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Hebrews 6:12
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
2 Peter 1:11
For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
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Psalms 119:4
You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
Matthew 16:26
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Luke 1:6
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
Acts 26:11
And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.
Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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Romans 1:6
Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:
Romans 6:2
In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
2 Corinthians 13:7
Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.
Philippians 4:1
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
Titus 1:12
One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
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Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.
Proverbs 4:8
Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.
Proverbs 15:24
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
Romans 13:11
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.
Colossians 1:9
For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
Colossians 1:12
Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
Hebrews 2:1
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
1 John 2:25
And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.
Revelation 3:3
Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
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Luke 9:48
And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.
Luke 10:20
Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.
Romans 8:17
And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
2 Corinthians 6:10
As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.
Galatians 2:20
I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Colossians 1:22
In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:
Colossians 2:6
As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,
James 1:9
But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;
1 Peter 4:1
So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;
Revelation 17:14
These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.
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1 Corinthians 15:51
See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:52
In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.
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 4:17
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 11:12
And a great voice from heaven came to their ears, saying to them, Come up here. And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and were seen by those desiring their death.
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1 Thessalonians 5:5
For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
1 Thessalonians 5:6
So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
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Proverbs 16:32
He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
Proverbs 25:28
He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
Acts 24:25
And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.
1 Timothy 4:7
But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:
1 Timothy 4:8
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
James 4:17
The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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John 15:2
He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
Romans 1:7
To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
Colossians 3:12
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
1 Thessalonians 3:13
So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
Titus 1:2
In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Revelation 3:11
I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
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Isaiah 24:15
Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
Matthew 5:47
And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
Acts 4:12
And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
Ephesians 1:14
Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 2:6
So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
Colossians 2:16
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
Hebrews 2:10
Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.
Hebrews 7:11
Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 11:40
Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
1 John 4:12
No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:
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Hebrews 12:12
For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,
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Hebrews 12:13
And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
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2 Kings 17:33
They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.
Isaiah 33:6
And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.
1 Corinthians 13:10
But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.
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;
Philippians 1:22
But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.
Philippians 4:4
Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
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,
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
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.
Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,
Revelation 2:9
I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.
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2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
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1 John 4:17
In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.
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Revelation 1:6
And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
Revelation 5:9
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
Revelation 5:10
And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
Revelation 7:9
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
Revelation 7:10
Saying with a loud voice, Salvation to our God who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb.
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:15
This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
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Matthew 24:12
And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.
Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.
Revelation 3:14
And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:
Revelation 3:15
I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.
Revelation 3:16
So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
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