Mind Control

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

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 →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel. — read the full passage →

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

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

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

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; — read the full passage →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

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 →

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. — read the full passage →

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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 →

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

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

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 →

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?