Living By Example

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

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

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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 →

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

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

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

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.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, — read the full passage →

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.

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — 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.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

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.

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

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

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

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

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

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

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

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

You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

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 everything spoken by God is possible.”

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

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 →

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; — read the full passage →

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

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

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: — read the full passage →

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,

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, — read the full passage →

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

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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,

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.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. — read the full passage →

An oracle. Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: — read the full passage →

Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. — read the full passage →

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.” — read the full passage →

Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. — read the full passage →

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. — read the full passage →

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. — read the full passage →

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!” — read the full passage →

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 →

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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 →

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

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