Seeing Yourself

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: — read the full passage →

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; — read the full passage →

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

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

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

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

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, — read the full passage →

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. — read the full passage →

At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

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

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. — read the full passage →

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) — read the full passage →

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →