Get Smart

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’ — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law. — read the full passage →

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

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.

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

One said to him, “Lord, are they few who are saved?” He said to them,

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.” — read the full passage →

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?