1 Thessalonians 5:23
12 helpful votesNow may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
When Pilate had confirmed it with the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown, and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.” But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house. They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!” . . .
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John, who testifies to everything he saw. This is the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near. John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, . . .
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not dependent on wine, not violent but gentle, peaceable, and free of the love of money. An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity. For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God? . . .
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
For no word from God will ever fail.”
He answered, “‘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 ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.
Of David. I give You thanks with all my heart; before the gods I sing Your praises.
Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
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