Determination

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

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

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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 →

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, — read the full passage →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. — read the full passage →

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there; — read the full passage →

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

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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.

“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. — read the full passage →

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

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 →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. — read the full passage →

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.