Determination

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, 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? shall tribulation, 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 so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

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

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

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

It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; — read the full passage →

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judæa:

He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye 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 quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

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

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

For which cause I suffer also 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 unto him against that day.

but thanks be to God, who giveth 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 unto his death;

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; — read the full passage →

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. — read the full passage →

for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: — read the full passage →

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

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

And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

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

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

The sower went forth to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it. — read the full passage →

If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto 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 mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto 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 tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint; — read the full passage →

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

And 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? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, as he drew nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: — read the full passage →

Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.