I have been asking God a lot of questions lately. What do you want from me father? What does a life set apart look like? What does holiness look like? I have asked God to reveal to me what being set apart looks like. I desire a set apart life. He has called us to live a life set apart. I don't want to conform to the world. I will admit this is very hard for me. My fleshly desires want me to conform to the world and be a part of the world and my sinful nature wants me to go back to my old ways and live the way I did. This has been a constant battle in my heart. I can feel a battle going on. A battle between living a set apart life and a life conformed to the world. I am choosing to live a life set apart even though it is a daily struggle. I desire holiness. I want to be holy. As he reveals holiness to me he also reveals how broken and messed up I really am. I have so many heart scars that I thought were being healed but I have a lot of healing that needs to be done and only he can do the healing. Nothing in this world can heal me. The world may offer me temporary satsifcation and temporary happiness but it will only leave me empty and even more broken than I already am. My beloved has been revealing verses to me about what a set apart life looks like and what my life and your lives should look like if you have surrendered your life to Him.
Romans 12:1 ESV
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
-He wants me to present my life as a living sacrifice to show him my worship. This has been hard for me. Because he wants us to give him every aspect of our lives and my selfish ways want me to keep part of myself from him.
Romans 12:2 ESV
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
-I constantly try and conform to the world. I listen to music I shouldn't, watch movies that aren't pleasing to my beloved, talk in ways that I am ashamed to admit, take my dating life into my own hands, and the list goes on. I don't want to conform to this world. He calls us not to conform to the world. He wants to transform us so that we will know what the will of God is and what is pleasing and acceptable to him. This is hard and this is a daily surrender. But I don't want to conform to the world father. I want you to transform me and my heart.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
-We were made to be his workmanship. We were created in Christ for good works. God has prepared these beforehand. We need to walk him his ways. Walking in his ways can be hard. Being his workmanship can be hard. Father I ask that you would use me and help me to be your workmanship and let me follow your ways.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
-I want to be set apart, a servant of Christ Jesus like Paul was called to be. I want to be set apart for the gospel of God. I want to recieve grace and apostleship. I want to be obedient. I want to live my faith out. He calls us to be set apart.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
-My body is not mine. It is a temple of the Lord's. I am not my own. This is hard for me to grasp. That my Body is his temple. I need to worship Jesus with my body. He calls me to do this. Lord help me to worship you with my body.
John 17:15-18 ESV
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
-He has sent us to the world. He wants to sanctify us in the truth. I ask that you would sanctify me in the truth father. He sent us here but is protecting us from the evil one. I am not of this world. This is not my home. Heaven is my home. Until then he calls me to speak the truth.
Ephesians 1:14 ESV
Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
-He is our inheritance. He deserves all the glory. He is our prize.
Romans 8:9 ESV
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
-The spirit of God dwells in me. That is so refreshing to think about. He is dwelling in me. I desire the holy spirit to fill me. Fill my heart, soul, mind, and body.
1 Peter 1:16 ESV
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
-He is holy, so we shall be holy. I desire holiness father. I desire you.
Titus 2:14 ESV
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
-Jesus gave himself for us to redeem us from lawlessness and to purify for himself a people(us) for his own posession. We are his posession.
Colossians 3:10 ESV
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
-He has given us a new self. He is renewing us in knowledge after the image of its creater. It is so refreshing to know the he is constantly renewing me and giving me knowledge.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
-We are in him. He will give us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Oh God how I love you and desire you.
Romans 8:28 ESV
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
-Us as believers who love God need to work together for his good. We need to live our lives for his purpose and his will. Lord I ask that I would seek your purpose daily.
Romans 6:6 ESV
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
-My old self was crucified so I need to stop going back to my old ways. I don't want to be enslaved to my old sin. I want my chains to be set free and I want to live for him and him alone for now on.
Romans 1:17 ESV
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
-I want your righteousness father. I life by faith and faith alone.
Malachi 3:10 ESV
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
-Lord you keep convicting me that if I am to live a life set apart I need to tithe. Continue to convict me of this. I need to tithe. It is very important. We are called to tithe.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
-He created us and saw that we were good.
Ephesians 4:24 ESV
And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
-I was created new in you. I was created in rightousness and truth.
Galatians 3:28 ESV
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 8:1-9:15 ESV
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. ...
-I want to freely give father. I want to give to you first.
Romans 13:14 ESV
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
-I don't want to follow my flesh anymore. I follow Jesus and only Jesus.
Acts 10:47 ESV
“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”
-I want to be baptized in your spirit and truth father.
Acts 10:1-48 ESV
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...
-I want to be like Cornelieus, a man who feared God and gave generously. I want to be devouted and continually praying to God.
John 17:19 ESV
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
-I wanted to be sanctified in the truth father.
1 John 5:18 ESV
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
-God protects us if we follow him.
2 Peter 2:4-10 ESV
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); ...
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1 Peter 5:8 ESV
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
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1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
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1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
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1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
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James 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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James 2:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
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James 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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Titus 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
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1 Timothy 1:8-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
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2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
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2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...
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1 Thessalonians 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
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1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
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Colossians 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
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Colossians 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
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Colossians 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
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Galatians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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Galatians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
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Galatians 3:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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Galatians 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Galatians 2:14-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?” We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. ...
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2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
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2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
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1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ...
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1 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
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1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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Romans 8:28-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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Romans 8:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
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Romans 7:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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Romans 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
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Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
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Romans 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
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Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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Romans 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Romans 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
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Acts 10:45-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
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Acts 10:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
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Acts 8:26-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” ...
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John 15:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
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John 15:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
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John 7:37-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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John 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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John 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
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John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
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John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
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John 1:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...
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Luke 10:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
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Luke 6:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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Mark 9:1-50 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” ...
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Mark 2:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
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Mark 2:23-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
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Matthew 25:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Matthew 19:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
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Matthew 12:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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Matthew 12:1-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? ...
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Matthew 10:12-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As you enter the house, greet it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
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Matthew 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
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Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
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Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
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Isaiah 1:10-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. ...
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Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
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Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...
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Psalm 119:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
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1 Samuel 21:1-22:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.” And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?” ...
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Judges 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.” ...
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Deuteronomy 23:17-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute. You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.
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Leviticus 24:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly. “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf. ...
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Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
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Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
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Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
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Genesis 19:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
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Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...
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Revelation 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
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Revelation 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
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Jude 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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1 John 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
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1 John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
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1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
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1 John 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
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1 John 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
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2 Peter 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
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James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
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James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
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Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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Hebrews 9:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the word of God 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.
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Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
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2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
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1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
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1 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.
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1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
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2 Thessalonians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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Philippians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Philippians 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
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Philippians 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
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Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
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Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
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Ephesians 4:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
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Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
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Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
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Ephesians 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
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Galatians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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Galatians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
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Galatians 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
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Galatians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
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2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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1 Corinthians 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
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1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
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1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
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1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
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1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
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1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
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1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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1 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
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1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
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1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
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Romans 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...
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Romans 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
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Romans 8:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
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Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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Romans 8:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
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Romans 7:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Romans 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
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Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
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Romans 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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Romans 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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Romans 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
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Romans 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
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Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
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Romans 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
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Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
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Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Romans 4:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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Acts 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
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Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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Acts 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
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Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every 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 2:4 ESV
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 1:4 ESV
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
John 14:17 ESV
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:16 ESV
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
John 14:9 ESV
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 7:39 ESV
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 6:63 ESV
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 3:8 ESV
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 1:3 ESV
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:1 ESV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 3:22 ESV
And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Luke 2:11 ESV
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 1:35 ESV
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Luke 1:33 ESV
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Luke 1:32 ESV
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
Luke 1:30 ESV
And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Mark 12:25 ESV
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mark 11:23 ESV
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
God wants us to live for him and him alone. We cannot conform to the world. We have to be set apart. We are called to live radical lives for Jesus. I desire holiness, truth, and desire to live my life radically for Jesus no matter the cost. Are you with me? I thank God for being so gracious to me. For revealing his heart to me through his word and prayer. He knows the desires of my heart and shows so much compassion. God is so gracious and so faithful. I will live a life set apart for him.
His beloved,
Grace
