Taking Care Of Yourself

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 →

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

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.

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,

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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 →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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

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

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

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 →

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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 even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

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.”

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

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.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

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.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. — read the full passage →

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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 →

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

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. — read the full passage →

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

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

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.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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

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.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight. — read the full passage →

(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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.

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 moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

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.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

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 →

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders. — read the full passage →

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. — read the full passage →

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. — read the full passage →