Sound Mind

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. — read the full passage →

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

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

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

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 Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, — read the full passage →

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. — read the full passage →

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. — read the full passage →

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. — read the full passage →

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, — read the full passage →

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

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

But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

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

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

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.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: — read the full passage →

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

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 →

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.