The Soul And The Spirit

He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

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.

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.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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

oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. — read the full passage →

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

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

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.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.