Seeing Yourself

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; — 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.

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 →

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

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

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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:

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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,

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

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

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. — read the full passage →

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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. — read the full passage →

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 is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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.

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’ — read the full passage →

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — 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,

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

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

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

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

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

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

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

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For 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 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 Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The windblows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →