Being Like Christ

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death; — read the full passage →

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”