You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. Matthew 5:13 WEB This is part of the Lord’s famous sermon on the mount. Before making this statement, Jesus taught the...
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Philippians 2:5 KJV What should we think? What should we believe concerning our relationship with God? Jesus, who lived without sin, having the very nature of God himself, did not consider himself equal to God. Instead, he humbled himself...
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge; 1 Corinthians 1:5 WEB Giving context to this verse, Paul is conveying the grace of God to the Corinthians. Before he addresses problems with the church, Paul declares his thanks to the Lord. Enriched in him, the apostle...
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. Galatians 5:24 WEB Faith in Christ saves us through the grace of God. And yet, as we read in James 2:26, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. KJV” Paul teaches strongly...
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory...
Therefore, now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee: for thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed forever. 2 Samuel 7:29 KJV In 2 Samuel Chapter 7, the Lord promised to establish the...
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 WEB On a mountain in Galilee, Jesus gave the great commission to the eleven remaining disciples. He commanded them to make disciples of all the nations baptizing them...
For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good. Jeremiah 4:22 WEB Devotion to sin is just as possible as devotion to God. Even those who God calls his own can fall away...
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:14 WEB We read in Genesis that God made Adam from the dust of the ground. The Lord then made Eve from a rib taken from Adam’s side. We are dust, made by God from the earth itself. They were without sin until the serpent...
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 WEB In his letter to the Romans, Paul writes about Christians participating in suffering, groaning together like a woman in labor, waiting for her child to be born....
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 KJV The Lord is mighty. In him the faithful take refuge. The Lord is mighty. He fights our battles for us. There is great...
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 KJV This famous verse about what happens before a fall gives an understanding of what not to do if we want to live lives that are pleasing to the Lord. Pride makes us feel self-sufficient and leads us away from the...
