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Is Spiritual Growth really possible?

Spiritual Growth
 
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2,910 helpful votes
 
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 2,547 helpful votes
 
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:9-10 ESV / 2,114 helpful votes
 
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 1,947 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Matthew 5:6 ESV / 1,865 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Colossians 1:10 ESV / 1,836 helpful votes
 
So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1,699 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Peter 1:5-8 ESV / 1,593 helpful votes
 
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 5:12-14 ESV / 1,474 helpful votes
 
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 1,464 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1,417 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV / 1,391 helpful votes
 
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 1,382 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 1,345 helpful votes
 
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 1,264 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
James 1:2 ESV / 1,260 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 1,256 helpful votes
 
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 1,246 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 1,205 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,154 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Titus 2:11-14 ESV / 1,144 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Ephesians 4:12-13 ESV / 1,123 helpful votes
 
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 1,073 helpful votes
 
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 1,041 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
1 Corinthians 13:10-12 ESV / 1,039 helpful votes
 
But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1,030 helpful votes
 
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,027 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 1,013 helpful votes
 
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 976 helpful votes
 
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Philippians 2:13 ESV / 967 helpful votes
 
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
John 15:5 ESV / 964 helpful votes
 
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Luke 2:52 ESV / 963 helpful votes
 
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Those Who Don‘t Obey God‘s words...will meet the fate this planned for them.

Obey Gods Word
 
Luke 11:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
James 1:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Romans 5:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
John 14:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Romans 13:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 John 1:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Acts 5:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
John 14:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
John 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 6:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Psalm 130:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
Joshua 5:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
James 1:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Colossians 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Acts 5:27-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...
John 15:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
John 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 8:31-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Matthew 7:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
Exodus 19:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

God is Building a Temple...and He‘s including us.

God Is Building A Temple
 
Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
1 Peter 2:4-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Acts 17:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
Revelation 21:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Mark 13:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Isaiah 56:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
2 Chronicles 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!
2 Samuel 7:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.” But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in? ...
Revelation 11:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 7:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
Acts 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
Acts 2:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
John 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Luke 1:57-80 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.” And they said to her, “None of your relatives is called by this name.” ...
Luke 1:26-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. ...
Mark 14:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”
Mark 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”

Just Be Done With it...

Live Right
 
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 8:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 5:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
John 3:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Jude 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
1 John 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2 Peter 3:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
James 2:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Philippians 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Your NEW Life Will NOT End Quickly...

New Life
 
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,519 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 824 helpful votes
 
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Romans 6:4 ESV / 805 helpful votes
 
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 782 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
John 3:16 ESV / 765 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 657 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Isaiah 43:19 ESV / 574 helpful votes
 
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Revelation 21:5 ESV / 571 helpful votes
 
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 541 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 540 helpful votes
 
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 512 helpful votes
 
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
John 3:3 ESV / 491 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 5:24 ESV / 467 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 466 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
John 14:6 ESV / 455 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Lamentations 3:22-24 ESV / 437 helpful votes
 
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

Christ Was Chosen as Your Ransom...

Christ Was Chosen
 
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
John 15:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 33:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Deuteronomy 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Revelation 17:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
1 John 2:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Peter 1:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
2 Thessalonians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do We Really Have To?

Let This Mind
 
Philippians 2:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Colossians 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Romans 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Genesis 5:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. ...
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
Philippians 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Watchout for the Anti-Christ(s)...Part 2

3 John 1:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, ...
2 John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,
2 John 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
2 John 1:7-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ...
1 John 4:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
1 John 2:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
2 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Titus 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,
1 Timothy 6:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.
1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
1 Timothy 4:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
2 Thessalonians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thessalonians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. ...
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Galatians 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
Galatians 1:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
2 Corinthians 11:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Romans 16:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Acts 20:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 24:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Matthew 24:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Micah 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
Daniel 12:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. ...
Daniel 11:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.
Daniel 11:1-45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. “And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. “Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority. ...
Daniel 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
Daniel 8:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
Daniel 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.
Daniel 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’
Daniel 7:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.
Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ ...

Be careful of the Anti-Christ(s)...many are here already!

Beware Of Antichrist
 
2 John 1:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Revelation 19:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
1 John 2:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
Matthew 24:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
Colossians 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Matthew 24:4-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...
1 John 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1 John 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
Romans 16:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
Revelation 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Revelation 13:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
Revelation 13:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
Revelation 13:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
Revelation 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, 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.
2 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
1 John 4:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
1 John 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
2 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But test everything; hold fast what is good.
John 8:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
John 7:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Mark 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Mark 13:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Matthew 7:15-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...
Daniel 7:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
Daniel 7:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Revelation 20:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 17:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”
Revelation 17:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
Revelation 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
Revelation 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.
Revelation 15:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
Revelation 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
Revelation 13:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Revelation 13:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
Revelation 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
Revelation 13:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
Revelation 13:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
Revelation 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
Revelation 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
Jude 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
Jude 1:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Don‘t love the World...nor the things that the World offers you...

Dont Love The World
 
1 John 2:15 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
James 4:4 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 3:16 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 John 2:16 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
James 1:27 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
John 14:27 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
1 John 5:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
1 John 2:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 John 3:13 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
John 16:33 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 8:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
1 John 4:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
John 15:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
1 John 5:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 4:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
1 John 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matthew 7:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
John 4:1-9:41 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...
John 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”