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Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
Genesis Chapter 32: Verse 29
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
Deuteronomy Chapter 30: Verse 6
As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul's heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day.
1 Samuel Chapter 10: Verse 9
May he turn our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep the commands, decrees and regulations he gave our fathers.
1 Kings Chapter 8: Verse 58
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
Psalms Chapter 36: Verse 9
Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms Chapter 51: Verse 2
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalms Chapter 51: Verse 7
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalms Chapter 51: Verse 10
When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions.
Psalms Chapter 65: Verse 3
When you ascended on high, you led captives in your train; you received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that you, O LORD God, might dwell there.
Psalms Chapter 68: Verse 18
"I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me, Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush , and will say, 'This one was born in Zion.' "
Psalms Chapter 87: Verse 4
The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion."
Psalms Chapter 87: Verse 6
Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.
Psalms Chapter 110: Verse 3
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs Chapter 4: Verse 23
In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
Proverbs Chapter 12: Verse 28
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
Proverbs Chapter 14: Verse 27
To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.
Proverbs Chapter 16: Verse 1
wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong,
learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verses 16 - 17
I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verse 25
The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
Isaiah Chapter 4: Verse 4
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Isaiah Chapter 12: Verse 3
LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
Isaiah Chapter 26: Verse 12
When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isaiah Chapter 29: Verse 23
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.
Isaiah Chapter 32: Verses 3 - 4
till the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.
Isaiah Chapter 32: Verse 15
The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah Chapter 32: Verse 17
Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Isaiah Chapter 35: Verses 5 - 6
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.
Isaiah Chapter 42: Verse 16
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
Isaiah Chapter 43: Verse 7
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.
One will say, 'I belong to the LORD '; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,' and will take the name Israel. The LORD, Not Idols
Isaiah Chapter 44: Verses 3 - 5
to say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!' "They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
Isaiah Chapter 49: Verse 9
"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
Isaiah Chapter 55: Verses 1 - 3
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
Jeremiah Chapter 13: Verse 23
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water.
Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.
Jeremiah Chapter 17: Verses 13 - 14
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.
Jeremiah Chapter 24: Verse 7
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
Jeremiah Chapter 31: Verse 3
"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
Jeremiah Chapter 31: Verses 33 - 34
They will be my people, and I will be their God.
I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me for their own good and the good of their children after them.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
Jeremiah Chapter 32: Verses 38 - 40
" 'Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.
Jeremiah Chapter 33: Verse 6
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel Chapter 11: Verses 19 - 20
" 'I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.
Ezekiel Chapter 16: Verse 9
Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel Chapter 18: Verse 31
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Ezekiel Chapter 36: Verses 26 - 27
I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.
Ezekiel Chapter 36: Verse 29
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.
He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know."
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.
I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.' "
So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' "
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet,a vast army.
Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.'
Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.' " One Nation Under One King
Ezekiel Chapter 37: Verses 1 - 14
In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.
Ezekiel Chapter 44: Verse 7
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.
Ezekiel Chapter 44: Verse 9
"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
Zechariah Chapter 12: Verse 10
"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
Matthew Chapter 12: Verses 33 - 35
"When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
Matthew Chapter 12: Verses 43 - 44
But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."The Parable of the Weeds
Matthew Chapter 13: Verse 23
He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."
Matthew Chapter 13: Verse 33
And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew Chapter 18: Verse 3
He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.
Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
All by itself the soil produces grain,first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.
As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Mark Chapter 4: Verses 26 - 29
Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God.
And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous,to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Luke Chapter 1: Verses 16 - 17
and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Luke Chapter 8: Verse 35
The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
"Return home and tell how much God has done for you." So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
Luke Chapter 8: Verses 38 - 39
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
John Chapter 1: Verse 4
children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
John Chapter 1: Verse 13
From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
John Chapter 1: Verse 16
In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. "
"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
John Chapter 3: Verses 3 - 8
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
John Chapter 4: Verse 10
but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John Chapter 4: Verse 14
"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
John Chapter 5: Verse 24
But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
John Chapter 5: Verse 47
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
John Chapter 6: Verses 44 - 45
But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
John Chapter 6: Verses 50 - 51
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
John Chapter 6: Verse 57
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
John Chapter 8: Verse 12
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John Chapter 8: Verse 36
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
John Chapter 10: Verses 9 - 10
"No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."
John Chapter 13: Verse 8
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
John Chapter 15: Verse 1
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
John Chapter 17: Verse 2
Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts Chapter 2: Verse 38
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts Chapter 2: Verse 47
When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."
Acts Chapter 3: Verse 26
As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
"Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.
"Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone.
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus.
For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.
In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, "Ananias!" "Yes, Lord," he answered.
The Lord told him, "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight."
"Lord," Ananias answered, "I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.
And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name."
But the Lord said to Ananias, "Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel.
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."
Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord,Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here,has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,
Acts Chapter 9: Verses 3 - 18
So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God?"
Acts Chapter 11: Verse 17
The Lord's hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts Chapter 11: Verse 21
He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.
Acts Chapter 15: Verse 9
One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.
Acts Chapter 16: Verse 14
Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts Chapter 21: Verse 19
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
Acts Chapter 26: Verse 18
A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.
No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God.
Romans Chapter 2: Verses 28 - 29
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin,
because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.Slaves to Righteousness
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey,whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans Chapter 6: Verses 3 - 23
But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.Struggling With Sin
Romans Chapter 7: Verse 6
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God,through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Romans Chapter 7: Verses 24 - 25
because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man,
in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;
Romans Chapter 8: Verses 2 - 6
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
Romans Chapter 8: Verse 9
For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,
because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Romans Chapter 8: Verses 13 - 16
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is,his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans Chapter 12: Verse 2
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Romans Chapter 15: Verse 16
God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.Divisions in the Church
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verse 9
but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verse 24
It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God,that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
1 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verse 30
We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
1 Corinthians Chapter 2: Verse 12
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians Chapter 2: Verses 14 - 16
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3: Verses 6 - 7
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
1 Corinthians Chapter 3: Verse 9
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.Sexual Immorality
1 Corinthians Chapter 6: Verse 11
There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.
1 Corinthians Chapter 12: Verse 6
For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body,whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free,and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians Chapter 12: Verse 13
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them,yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
1 Corinthians Chapter 15: Verse 10
Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,
set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
2 Corinthians Chapter 1: Verses 21 - 22
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Corinthians Chapter 3: Verse 3
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians Chapter 3: Verse 18
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians Chapter 4: Verse 6
Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
2 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verse 5
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verse 17
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians Chapter 2: Verse 20
At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now.
Galatians Chapter 4: Verse 29
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation.
Galatians Chapter 6: Verse 15
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Ephesians Chapter 2: Verse 1
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions,it is by grace you have been saved.
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians Chapter 2: Verses 5 - 6
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith,and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God,
Ephesians Chapter 2: Verse 8
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.One in Christ
Ephesians Chapter 2: Verse 10
But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
This is why it says: "When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men."
Ephesians Chapter 4: Verses 7 - 8
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.Living as Children of Light
Ephesians Chapter 4: Verse 16
Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians Chapter 4: Verses 21 - 24
for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said: "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
Ephesians Chapter 5: Verse 14
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians Chapter 1: Verse 6
In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ,
having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
Colossians Chapter 2: Verses 11 - 13
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians Chapter 3: Verses 9 - 10
But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
2 Thessalonians Chapter 2: Verse 13
he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Titus Chapter 3: Verses 5 - 6
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.
Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' " And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.
For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his work."
And again in the passage above he says, "They shall never enter my rest."
It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.
Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it Today, when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews Chapter 4: Verses 1 - 12
"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."
Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verses 16 - 17
let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verses 22 - 23
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.Listening and Doing
James Chapter 1: Verse 18
My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
James Chapter 5: Verses 19 - 20
who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.Praise to God for a Living Hope
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter Chapter 1: Verses 2 - 3
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1 Peter Chapter 1: Verses 22 - 23
now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.The Living Stone and a Chosen People
1 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 3
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 9
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter Chapter 1: Verses 3 - 4
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit,just as it has taught you, remain in him.Children of God
1 John Chapter 2: Verse 27
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
1 John Chapter 2: Verse 29
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John Chapter 3: Verse 9
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John Chapter 4: Verse 7
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
1 John Chapter 5: Verse 1
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John Chapter 5: Verses 4 - 5
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.Concluding Remarks
1 John Chapter 5: Verses 11 - 12
We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.
1 John Chapter 5: Verse 18
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