Transforming Your Heart

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

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 →

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 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.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

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.

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

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

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 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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

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.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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.

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. — read the full passage →

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

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.” — 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 →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — 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,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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 faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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 →

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, — read the full passage →

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

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 →

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

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

But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →