Sound Mind

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

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.

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—

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.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

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

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — 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.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

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;

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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 →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

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.

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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 →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

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,

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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.

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. — read the full passage →

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you 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 who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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

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

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

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

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

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 righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

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.

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

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you. — read the full passage →

For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

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 →

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.