| Original sin came about by the same temptations that we are faced with. | Gen 3:6 KJV | And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. |
| The description God gave to Enoch’s life. | Gen 5:22-24 NASB | Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. |
| Noah walked with God; He was righteous and blameless | Gen 6:9 NASB | These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. |
| God wanted Abram to be a blessing, a great nation so he asked him to follow Him. | Gen 12:1-2 NASB | Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; |
| God promised to multiply Abram if he walked before Him blamelessly. | Gen 17:1-2 NASB | Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be blameless. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly. |
| Isaac prayed that Jacob would be blessed, fruitful and become a large number. | Gen 28:3 NASB | And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. |
| Joseph told his brothers not to grieve for it was really God who took him to Egypt. | Gen 45:5 NASB | And now do not be grieved or angry with your selves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. |
| Israel blessed Joseph and wanted his name to live on and Joseph to become a multitude. | Gen 48:16 NASB | The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; and may my name live on in them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. |
| God brings all things to result in good, even if men act evil. | Gen 50:20 KJV | But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. |
| God used Moses and sent him to bring His people out of Egypt. | Exod 3:10 NASB | Therefore, Come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt. |
| God promised to be with Moses’s mouth and to make his speech fluent; after all He’s the Creator. | Exod 4:11-12 NASB | And the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? “Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.” |
| God brings us into His holy habitation by His strength, we, His redeemed | Exod 15:13 NASB | In Thy lovingkindness Thou hast led the people whom thou hast redeemed; In Thy strength Thou has guided them to Thy holy habitation. |
| God brought Israel out of Egypt like an eagle helping her young to fly. | Exod 19:4 NASB | You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. |
| Sins – slowly driven away from us. | Exod 23:29-30 KJV | I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. |
| Moses spent much time with Joshua, God spoke to Moses face to face, like friends. | Exod 33:11 NASB | Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. |
| Pray to know God, saying “if it please you. . .” then He will give us rest. | Exod 33:13-14 NASB | Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found favor in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways, that I may know Thee, so that I may find favor in Thy sight. Consider too, that this nation is Thy people.” And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” |
| The only thing that can distinguish us and show His favor is for God to go with us. | Exod 33:16 NASB | For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Thy sight, I and Thy people? Is it not by Thy going with us, so that we, I and Thy people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth? |
| Sin may be forgiven, but it will have repercussions to 3 or 4 generations. | Exod 34:7 NASB | who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” |
| One goat dies and the other present alive to God and then driven into the wilderness | Lev 16:10 NASB | But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat. |
| What the blood really means and why its used for atonement. | Lev 17:11 KJV | For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the alter to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. |
| Honesty, don’t be crafty. | Lev 19:11 KJV | Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. |
| God will send rain and make our land fruitful if we are obedient to His word. | Lev 26:3-4 NASB | If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. |
| The children of Israel followed God exactly, staying when He stayed and going when He left. | Numb 9:22 NASB | Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out. |
| God thought higher of Moses than He did of the Prophets because of his fellowship and faithfulness. | Numb 12:7-8 NASB | Not so with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household; with him I speak mouth to mouth, even openly, and not in dark sayings, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses? |
| God is faithful – what He says He does. | Numb 23:19 KJV | God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? |
| God has only just begun to show us Himself, when He shows His strength and greatness. | Deut 3:23-24 NASB | I also pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Thine? |
| The word is our wisdom and understanding before all people, we should obey | Deut 4:6 NASB | So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” |
| We need diligence (memorizing) to keep God’s word and not have is depart forever. | Deut 4:9 NASB | Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from you heart all the days of your life; but make them know to your sons and your grandsons. |
| God’s word should be on our hearts. | Deut 6:6 NASB | And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; |
| We need to use and teach the word to our children at all times, night and day | Deut 6:7 NASB | and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. |
| Sins, taken by God only, and He does it slowly | Deut 7:22 KJV | And the Lord Thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. |
| Now we pass through the wilderness to get to a good land, fountains, springs, vines, oil and honey. | Deut 8:7-8 NASB | For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; |
| God cares for the Promised Land. It drinks of the rain of heaven. | Deut 11:11-12 NASB | But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it , from the beginning even to the end of the year. |
| Prophecies about Jesus – Those who don’t believe are bad | Deut 18:18-19 KJV | I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. |
| Fear spreads from person to person. That is why God had the fearful go home and not to war. | Deut 20:8 NASB | Then the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted? Let him depart and return to his house, so that he might not make his brothers’ hearts melt like his heart”. |
| Wages of sin – death only for our own sins. | Deut 24:16 KJV | The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. |
| If we sin it will be hard to bring forth fruit | Deut 28:38 KJV | Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in, for the locust shall consume it. |
| God’s things are secret, but what we understand is ours always. | Deut 29:29 KJV | The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. |
| God hasn’t commanded things that are impossible, but things near to us, within our reach. | Deut 30:11-12 NASB | For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?” |
| God could have had anything, but He chose people to be His inheritance. | Deut 32:9 NASB | For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance. |
| God’s law is our life and it prolongs our spiritual lives. | Deut 32:47 KJV | For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. |
| Word – Meditating on it leads to success. | Joshua 1:8 KJV | This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. |
| If you don’t serve God; OK, choose something else, but I will serve God. | Joshua 24:15 KJV | And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. |
| Them that love God are like the sun traveling with might. | Judges 5:31 KJV | So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. |
| God thinned out Gideon’s army to stop boasting and show that He alone delivered them | Judges 7:2 NASB | And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, lest Israel become boastful, saying, My own power has delivered me.” |
| Gideon and his men were tired and weary and yet they pursued the leaders of Midian. | Judges 8:4 NASB | Then Gideon and the 300 men who were with him came to the Jordan and crossed over, weary yet pursuing. |
| Ruth followed Naomi to seek refuge in God. Boaz knew this and prayed that her wages would be full | Ruth 2:12 NASB | May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge. |
| God makes us poor or rich; He takes us into the pit, then He raises us up. | 1Sam 2:6-7 NASB | The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. The Lord makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts. |
| Eli brought a curse on his family when they did evil and he did not admonish them. | 1Sam 3:13 NASB | For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them. |
| We shouldn’t stop praying lest we sin against God. | 1Sam 12:23 KJV | Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: |
| Availability – Jonathan’s armor bearer was totally committed to him. | 1Sam 14:6-7 NASB | Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.” And his armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself, and here I am with you according to your desire.” |
| Saul was rejected from being king because he rejected the word, which is sin. | 1Sam 15:23 KJV | For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. |
| God doesn’t care about our size or ability, but on our attitude | 1Sam 16:7 KJV | But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. |
| Abigail said David would be so engulfed in God that all enemies would fail and not touch him. | 1Sam 25:29 NASB | And should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord you God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling. |
| God promised to make David’s house last forever. David said if it pleased Him, do it. | 2Sam 7:29 NASB | Now therefore may it please Thee to bless the house of Thy servant, that it may continue forever before Thee. For Thou, O Lord God, has spoken; and with Thy blessing may the house of Thy servant be blessed forever. |
| When we sin it gives Satan a chance to blaspheme God. Sin has consequences. | 2Sam 12:14 NASB | However, because by this deed, you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die. |
| God gives us the strength of a superman. He also enlightens us. | 2Sam 22:29-30 NASB | For Thou art my lamp, O Lord; and the Lord illumines my darkness. For by Thee I can run upon a troop; By my God I can leap over a wall. |
| We can be like grass in the morning after a rain, if we rule over men righteously, fearing God. | 2Sam 23:3-4 NASB | The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through sunshine after rain.’ |
| Pray to God to give understanding to Counsel His people | 1Kings 3:9 NASB | “So give Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of thine?” |
| God is the one who causes our hearts to seek Him and to be obedient to His word. Pray that He would be with us. | 1Kings 8:57-58 NASB | May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us, that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. |
| God’s zeal will cause the remnant to take root and bear fruit; they will survive. | 2Kings 19:30-31 NASB | And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the Lord shall perform this. |
| Pray for larger borders and painless times and God will grant it like He did to Jabez | 1Chron 4:10 NASB | Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that Thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Thy hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldst keep me from harm, that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested. |
| David’s army were men of valor, like lions, swift as gazelles, men of war. | 1Chron 12:8 NASB | And from the Gadites there came over to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, and whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains. |
| God wants us to tell all nations and proclaim good news daily to all the earth. | 1Chron 16:23-24 NASB | Sing to the Lord, all the earth; Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day. Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples. |
| God will do what is good in His sight. We need to be courageous and do it. | 1Chron 19:13 NASB | Be strong, and let us show ourselves courageous for the sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what is good in His sight. |
| God knows our thoughts. Serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, seek Him and you will find Him. | 1Chron 28:9 NASB | As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever. |
| David told Solomon not to worry, for it would be God and not him doing the work. | 1Chron 28:20 KJV | And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. |
| God is in control of all; He makes some great, He makes right, honor is from Him. | 1Chron 29:12-13 NASB | Both riches and honor come from Thee, and Thou dost rule over all, and in Thy hand is power and might; and it lies in Thy hand to make great, and to strengthen everyone. Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name. |
| If our nation will turn to God he will fix the problems. | 2Chron 7:14 KJV | If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. |
| Asa didn’t trust God – The one who always helps those who are wholeheartedly His. | 2Chron 16:9 NASB | For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed from now on you will surely have wars. |
| Jehoshaphat’s prayer not knowing what to do against the great multitude. | 2Chron 20:12 NASB | O our God wilt Thou not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on Thee. |
| The battle is Gods’s, we don’t need to fight. Don’t be afraid, go out and face it. | 2Chron 20:17 NASB | You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.” Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you. |
| Uzziah was blessed and prospered as long as he sought God and made Him priority. | 2Chron 26:5 NASB | And he continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God prospered him. |
| We need to order our ways before god if we are to be mighty. | 2Chron 27:6 NASB | So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God. |
| We should set our hearts to be men of the word like Ezra. | Ezra 7:10 KJV | For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. |
| God’s remnant was given a peg in His holy place and they were enlightened and revived | Ezra 9:8 NASB | But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage. |
| I love God’s Word more than food. That is why I obey it and memorize it. | Job 23:12 NASB | I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. |
| God does the things that are set out for me and has many more things in mind. | Job 23:13-14 KJV | But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me and many such things are with him. |
| Jesus piercing Satan is the fringes of God’s ways. Who understands His thunder | Job 26:13-14 NASB | By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. “Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?” |
| Job knew of God intellectually, but after the trials he knew Him experiencially. | Job 42:5-6 NASB | I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees Thee; Therefore, I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes. |
| Don’t sin, neither go where sin is | Psalms 1:1 KJV | Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. |
| Word – Meditate all the time | Psalms 1:2 KJV | But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. |
| His help in life – When we are ready, fruit | Psalms 1:3 KJV | And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. |
| God said to His Son, “Ask and I will give you nations and the whole earth” | Psalms 2:8 NASB | Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Thine inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Thy possession. |
| Love the Son and put your trust in Him and be blessed | Psalms 2:12 KJV | Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. |
| God lifts us from the depths, His is our glory and our shield. | Psalms 3:3 NASB | But Thou, O Lord, art a shield about me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head. |
| We should pray in the morning like David did. | Psalms 5:3 KJV | My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. |
| We should pray that God would keep us going when we feel that we are falling apart | Psalms 6:2 NASB | Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away; Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed. |
| God’s word is like silver purified in a furnace seven times. | Psalms 12:6 NASB | The words of the Lord are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. |
| People who say there is no God, are foolish and corrupt | Psalms 14:1 NASB | The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. |
| God looked on men and saw no one that was good, not even one. | Psalms 14:3 NASB | They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one. |
| Scripture memory allows God to teach and counsel us at all times. | Psalms 16:7 NASB | I will bless the Lord who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. |
| If you are insecure and not rejoicing it is because you are not seeking God whole heartedly | Psalms 16:8-9 NASB | I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. |
| God is the source for all joy and eternal pleasure. Walking in His ways allows us to experience it. | Psalms 16:11 NASB | Thou wilt make known to me the path of life; in Thy presence is fullness of joy; in Thy right hand there are pleasures forever. |
| All David wanted was to be like God. | Psalms 17:15 KJV | As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. |
| God is our protection, our rock, our strength: the joy of our salvation. Love Him. | Psalms 18:1-2 NASB | I love Thee, O Lord, my strength.” The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, My rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. |
| This world speaks and shows God and His character. | Psalms 19:1-2 KJV | The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. |
| David wanted his speech and his thoughts to be acceptable to God. | Psalms 19:14 NASB | Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. |
| We don’t need anything, God is caring for us. He leads us into rest and quiet. | Psalms 23:1-2 NASB | The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. |
| God refreshes us and will lead us into exactly the right place. | Psalms 23:3 NASB | He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. |
| When we are in the valley of trials, be not afraid, God is there. | Psalms 23:4 KJV | Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they confort me. |
| God gives us victory over our enemies and peace. He causes our cup to overflow. | Psalms 23:5 KJV | Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. |
| Live with God and goodness will be ours now and forever. | Psalms 23:6 KJV | Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. |
| Pray that God would teach us His truth and His paths so that we can know Him | Psalms 25:4-5 NASB | Make me know Thy ways, O Lord; Teach me Thy paths. Lead me in Thy truth and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, For Thee I wait all the day. |
| David wanted only one thing to sit in the temple and behold the beauty of God. | Psalms 27:4 NASB | One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to meditate in His temple. |
| If God won’t answer, we become like them that go down to the pit | Psalms 28:1 KJV | Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock: be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. |
| Don’t make God force you into things like a horse | Psalms 32:9 KJV | Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. |
| Show God’s character and exalt him for this we need His Spirit. | Psalms 34:3 NASB | O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. |
| Don’t worry about others, just trust in the Lord | Psalms 37:7 KJV | Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. |
| We should determine not to sin with our tongues in front of the non-christian. | Psalms 39:1 NASB | I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle, while the wicked are in my presence.” |
| We should seek after God like one seeks after water in a dry land. | Psalms 42:1 NASB | As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for Thee, O God. |
| Only through God and His character can we be victorious over our enemies. | Psalms 44:5 NASB | Through Thee we will push back our adversaries; Through Thy name we will trample down those who rise up against us. |
| Experience God to the fullest with the intention of telling the next generation. | Psalms 48:12-14 NASB | Walk about Zion, and go around her; Count her towers; Consider her ramparts; Go through her palaces; That you may tell it to the next generation. For such is God, Our God forever and ever; He will guide us until death. |
| There is nothing a man or his brother can do to be saved except to stop trying | Psalms 49:7-9 NASB | No man can by any means redeem his brouther, or give to God a ransom for him – For the redemption of his soul is costly, and he should cease trying forever. That he should live on eternally; That he should not undergo decay. |
| God gives us a willing Spirit and His joy, then we can be fruitful in evangelism. | Psalms 51:12-13 NASB | Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners will be converted to Thee. |
| God likes meed and humble people and not sacrifices. | Psalms 51:16-17 KJV | For Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. |
| God crushed Israel in battle, they pleaded with Him to restore them. | Psalms 60:1 NASB | O God, Thou hast rejected us. Thou hast broken us; Thou has been angry; O restore us. |
| Cling to God and find strength and joy living under His wings. | Psalms 63:7-8 NASB | For Thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of Thy wings I sing for joy. My soul clings to Thee; Thy right hand upholds me. |
| God provides for us through the river of God as He chooses. | Psalms 65:9 KJV | Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. |
| God tests and refines us the same way silver is refined, to bring us into life, and keep us there. | Psalms 66:9-10 NASB | Who keeps us in life, and does not allow our feet to slip. For Thou hast tried us, O God; Thou hast refined us as silver is refined. |
| God has heard me only because I had no unconfessed sin. | Psalms 66:18-19 KJV | If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me; But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. |
| We need God’s face to shine upon us if we are to be effective at witnessing. | Psalms 67:1-2 NASB | God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon [with] us – That Thy way may be known on the earth, Thy salvation among all nations. |
| God blesses us so that all the earth would come to know Him and fear Him. | Psalms 67:6-7 NASB | The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God, blesses us. God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear Him. |
| People who hate God discredit us, but we should be consumed in zeal. | Psalms 69:9 NASB | For zeal for Thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach Thee have fallen on me. |
| David’s prayer for deliverance in affliction and hard times. | Psalms 69:13-14 KJV | But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
| God is a rock in which we can abide continually, thus we are saved. | Psalms 71:3 NASB | Be thou to me a rock of habitation, to which I may continually come; Thou hast given commandment to save me, for Thou art my rock and my fortress. |
| Reincarnation – like dust our bodies blow away | Psalms 78:39 KJV | For he rememberd that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away and cometh not again. |
| God wants His people to take deep roots, fill and cover the land with their shadow. | Psalms 80:9-10 NASB | Thou didst clear the ground before it, and it took deep root and filled the land. The mountains were covered with its shadow; and the cedars of God with its boughs. |
| With God we have a place to dedicate our children. | Psalms 84:3 KJV | Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even Thine alters, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. |
| In us dwells a highway to God. We are truly blessed if we live in His Temple | Psalms 84:4-5 NASB | How blessed are those who dwell in Thy house! They are ever praising Thee. How blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee; In whose heart are the highways to Zion! |
| Pray that God would make us good stewards of our day, so that we may be wise. | Psalms 90:12 NASB | So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom. |
| David’s description of a righteous man in His old age – fruitful and fat. | Psalms 92:14 NASB | They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green, |
| Our attitudes are sown in the world (awareness, brilliance, joyfulness) to win others and be thankful. | Psalms 97:11-12 NASB | Light is sown like seed for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Be glad in the Lord, you righteous ones; and give thanks to His holy name. |
| God is immutable, the whole creation changes but He doesn’t | Psalms 102:26-27 KJV | They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. |
| God loves us and doesn’t punish us for our sins. | Psalms 103:10 KJV | He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. |
| The Lord pitieth us just like a father does his baby. | Psalms 103:13-14 KJV | Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. |
| Seek God, His strength, His face continually and glory in His holy character | Psalms 105:3-4 NASB | Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad. Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face continually. |
| We should pray to be a part of getting God’s chosen to prosper | Psalms 106:5 NASB | That I may see the prosperity of Thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation, that I may glory with Thine inheritance. |
| God is the one who we need in times of trouble, man’s help is no good. | Psalms 108:12-13 KJV | Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. |
| Unconfessed sin permeates our lives | Psalms 109:17-18 NASB | He also loved cursing, so it came to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him. But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it entered into his body like water, and like oil into his bones. |
| His Love and His Truth endures | Psalms 117:1-2 KJV | O, Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord. |
| Confidence in men is worthless, at any level – trust only in God. | Psalms 118:8-9 KJV | It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. |
| His help in temptation, through the word. | Psalms 119:9-11 KJV | Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Thy word. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. |
| Prayer – to understand his word | Psalms 119:18 KJV | Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. |
| We should quickly do His will after thinking of our bad intentions. | Psalms 119:59-60 KJV | I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. |
| I will always remember God’s word because through it he saved me from affliction. | Psalms 119:92-93 NASB | If Thy law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction. I will never forget Thy precepts, for by them Thou hast revived me. |
| God’s word is always mine. It makes me wise when I meditate upon it. | Psalms 119:97-98 NASB | O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. |
| Word – beautiful tasting and it is light | Psalms 119:103-105 KJV | How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. |
| Going to God’s house should make us happy like it did David | Psalms 122:1 NASB | I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” |
| Because we are victorious in battle we know God is the one doing it. | Psalms 124:2-3 NASB | Had it not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us; Then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us; |
| If you are concerned enough to cry WHILE sowing then you will reap with joy! | Psalms 126:5-6 NASB | Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. |
| Unless God does the work we all labor in vain | Psalms 127:1 KJV | Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. |
| Workaholics are not wise, excessive labor is vain, for God provides for us. | Psalms 127:2 NASB | It is vain for you to rise up early, to retire late, to eat the bread of painful labors; For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep. |
| Children are God’s gift to us. They help us in the battle, they are like arrows. | Psalms 127:3-4 NASB | Behold, children are a gift ot the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. |
| Fearing God makes your wife fruitful and your children like olive plants. | Psalms 128:3-4 NASB | Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine, within your house, your children like olive plants around your table. Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. |
| God does what He wants, everywhere. | Psalms 135:6 NASB | Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps. |
| God’s word exalted according to His character so praise and thank God. | Psalms 138:2 NASB | I will bow down toward Thy holy temple, and give thanks to Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth; For Thou has magnified Thy word according to all Thy name. |
| We can know God’s thoughts, they are vast and beyond count, but most of all they are precious. | Psalms 139:17-18 NASB | How precious also are Thy thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with Thee. |
| Ask God to show you any unconfessed sin. Ask Him to know you. | Psalms 139:23-24 KJV | Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. |
| Quiet Times – Hearing God in the morning and lifting our hearts to Him. | Psalms 143:8 NASB | Let me hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in Thee; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to Thee I lift up my soul. |
| Since God is good ask to be lead into the land of uprightness. | Psalms 143:10 KJV | Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. |
| God is the one who trains us; Our rock makes our hands and fingers fit for war. | Psalms 144:1 NASB | Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; |
| Praise and bless God every day forever. | Psalms 145:1.2 NASB | I will extol Thee, my God, O King; and I will bless Thy name forever andever. Every day will I bless Thee, and I will praise Thy name forever and ever. |
| God’s character is tender, merciful, and slow to anger, gracious. | Psalms 145:8-9 KJV | The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. |
| Come when the Spirit calls or you will get no help in the time of need. | Prov 1:25-26 KJV | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; |
| To understand and know God we need to search for treasure in the Word. | Prov 2:4-5 KJV | If Thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. |
| God’s word will give longer days, lives and peace, if we keep it and obey it. | Prov 3:1-2 NASB | My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of life, and peace they will add to you. |
| Assurance of God’s Guidance | Prov 3:5-6 KJV | Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. |
| Know God and stop evil, be wise for him and be healthy. | Prov 3:7-8 KJV | Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. |
| Give generously and He shall make you prosperous | Prov 3:9-10 KJV | Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. |
| Don’t hate God’s correction because he loves us. | Prov 3:11-12 KJV | My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth |
| God formed the earth in wisdom, including the great flood | Prov 3:19-20 NASB | The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens. By His knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies drip with dew. |
| The way of the good man increases in light until its like noon time. | Prov 4:18 KJV | But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day. |
| Men should concentrate on their wives and love them. Think about them and be exhilarated with them. | Prov 5:18-19 NASB | Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. As a loving hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; be exhilarated always with her love. |
| The benefits of memorizing and keeping the word. | Prov 6:22 KJV | When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. |
| Lust, trying to eat fire and coals and keep from getting burnt. | Prov 6:27-28 KJV | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? |
| Jesus’ pre-existance – a prophecy of Wisdom being before the world began. | Prov 8:23-24 KJV | I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. |
| Wisdom – Where true wisdom starts. | Prov 9:10 KJV | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. |
| Don’t sleep during the harvest for that is shameful. | Prov 10:5 KJV | He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. |
| If you withhold what is due you suffer want. If you give, you gain all the more. | Prov 11:24 NASB | There is one who scatters, yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want. |
| Use what you have and you will also be helped. | Prov 11:25 KJV | The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. |
| Fellowship should be with the right kind – wise, to become wise. | Prov 13:20 NASB | He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will suffer harm. |
| Men try to do right but still die | Prov 14:12 KJV | There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. |
| Bad words cause anger and fools only utter foolishness. | Prov 15:1-2 KJV | A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grevious words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. |
| Good tongue can be life, but a bad tongue is a gap in the Spirit. | Prov 15:4 KJV | A wholesome tongue is a tree of life but perverseness therein is a breach in the Spirit. |
| Men figure out how they should go but God leads the way eventually. | Prov 16:9 KJV | A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. |
| Controlling our reaction especially our tongue is more important than strength | Prov 16:32 NASB | He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city. |
| Grandchildren are the best and children are our glory. | Prov 17:6 KJV | Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. |
| Breaking a man’s spirit is dying in the desert, but happiness is healing. | Prov 17:22 NASB | A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. |
| People don’t really want understanding but just to know themselves. | Prov 18:2 KJV | A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. |
| One who is lazy in God’s work or any work is kin to the destroyer. | Prov 18:9 NASB | He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. |
| Stop trying to guess an answer before you know the full question | Prov 18:13 KJV | He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. |
| God loves men to find good wives and they then find great things. | Prov 18:22 KJV | Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. |
| Be true to friends; friendships must be with a limited number, otherwise you’re spread too thin. | Prov 18:24 NASB | A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly (KJV) A man of many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (NASB) |
| Evil will stay away and we are satisfied if we fear God. | Prov 19:23 KJV | The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. |
| The plans we have are deep; only the wise can draw them all out. | Prov 20:5 NASB | A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding draws it out. |
| Don’t lust after sleeping for God wants to feed us. | Prov 20:13 KJV | Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. |
| Governments are controlled by God and He does as He wishes. | Prov 21:1 NASB | The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes. |
| Everyone thinks they are doing right but God judges from their heart | Prov 21:2 NASB | Every man’s way is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts. |
| Don’t eat fancy food and slit your throat if you eat a lot. | Prov 23:2-3 NASB | And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man of great appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for it is deceptive food. |
| We need to use time wisely not sleeping when we should be working, or else poverty will come on us. | Prov 24:33-34 NASB | A little sleep a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,” Then your poverty will come as a robber, and your want like an armed man. |
| God hides things from us, but man’s major thing is to find things out | Prov 25:2 NASB | It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. |
| Being exhorted by a friend is better than being loved by an enemy | Prov 27:5-6 NASB | Better is open rebuke than love that is concealed. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. |
| Fellowship makes us better Christians, like a steal sharpens a butcher knife. | Prov 27:17 KJV | Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
| We should be close enough to our spiritual children to know how they are and their needs | Prov 27:23 NASB | Know well the condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds. |
| God is a shield to us, and His word is sure and proven. | Prov 30:5 NASB | Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. |
| We should praise our wives as excelling al other women in nobel and good deeds | Prov 31:28-29 NASB | Her children rise up and bless her; Her husband also, and he praises her, saying: “Many daughters have done nobly, but you excel them all.” |
| Women, their reward is in their works. | Prov 31:30-31 KJV | Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. |
| God put eternity in men’s hearts, to keep them from knowing all His works. | Eccl 3:11 NASB | He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. |
| Having a little in love is better than a lot with trouble. | Eccl 4:6 KJV | Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. |
| Why do we really need fellowship? To help us up when we fall. | Eccl 4:9-10 KJV | Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. |
| Foolishness can put a foal stench to wisdom and honor. | Eccl 10:1 NASB | Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor. |
| He made all things and His activities are past finding out; therefore, don’t try to figure out when to sow | Eccl 11:4-5 NASB | He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. |
| Sow and reap and exhort all for you don’t know which will grow. | Eccl 11:6 KJV | In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. |
| Go ahead and live in immaturity but you will be held accountable for it. | Eccl 11:9 KJV | Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. |
| The mastering of some books is being like a well-driven nail, but other books are vanity. | Eccl 12:11-12 NASB | The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd. But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excess devotion to books is wearing to the body. |
| The whole of man is to serve God and obey Him, God will judge us. | Eccl 12:13-14 NASB | The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgement, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. |
| Your wife in a group of girls is like a beautiful flower in a patch of weeds. | Song of Sol 2:2 NASB | Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens. |
| Are you efficient with the sword, the word? Is it by your side? It will keep you safe at night. | Song of Sol 3:8 NASB | All of them are wielders of the sword, expert in war; each man has his sword at his side, guarding against the terrors of the night. |
| Answer to Sin – He will make us clean and white | Isaiah 1:18 KJV | Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
| Isaiah wanted to be sent when he heard God call for one to be sent | Isaiah 6:8 NASB | Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send Me!” |
| We are like a tool used by another; Why should we boast as if we were the one doing the work? | Isaiah 10:15 NASB | Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club wielding those who lift it, or like a rod lifting him who is not wood. |
| Witnessing – Salvation leads to simply telling what is happening in our lives | Isaiah 12:3-4 KJV | Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. |
| Everything that God has planned will happen, just like He intended. | Isaiah 14:24 NASB | The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand, |
| People have broken the law and God’s covenant; consequently, the earth is polluted. | Isaiah 24:5 KJV | The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. |
| Peace, His peace, experienced by trusting and staying in Him. | Isaiah 26:3 KJV | Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. |
| God will be strength and justice to us when we fight and judge, He will be our crown. | Isaiah 28:5-6 NASB | In that day the Lord of hosts will become a beautiful crown and glorious diadem to the remnant of His people; A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate. |
| There is a time to stop in evangelism, just like there is a time to stop plowing. | Isaiah 28:24 NASB | Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground? |
| God brought us through hard timesbut now will reveal Himself to us and lead us specifically. | Isaiah 30:20-21 NASB | Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. And your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left. |
| When we give up sin, God will give rain for the seed we sow and bread from the seed. | Isaiah 30:23 NASB | Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture. |
| We are all as fragile as grass and the flower of the field. | Isaiah 40:6 KJV | The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: |
| God governs all – people are quickly destroyed, | Isaiah 40:7 KJV | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. |
| We all fail, but God’s word lives on. | Isaiah 40:8 KJV | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. |
| Prophecies about Jesus – God’s reward is with him. | Isaiah 40:10 KJV | Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. |
| His guidance – He gathers us and carries us close. | Isaiah 40:11 KJV | He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. |
| God governs all – we are like grasshoppers | Isaiah 40:22 KJV | It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: |
| With our new strength we can push on and may be even run. | Isaiah 40:31 KJV | But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. |
| Christ’s strength upholds and helps us. | Isaiah 41:10 KJV | Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. |
| Jesus prophesied to bring justice to the nations by God’s spirit. He was a servant chosen by God. | Isaiah 42:1 NASB | Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. |
| God loves us and will make us fruitful; He will give men for our lives. | Isaiah 43:4 KJV | Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for Thy life. |
| God will put His spirit on my children and make them tall trees among the other fruit. | Isaiah 44:3-4 NASB | For I will pour out 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. And they will spring up among the grass like poplars by streams of water. |
| Look to God and you are saved; don’t look to anything else but God. | Isaiah 45:22 NASB | Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. |
| Those who trust in science are like Babylon, arrogant and headed for a fall | Isaiah 47:10 NASB | You felt secure in your wickedness and said, ‘No one sees me,’ Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’ |
| The key to multiplication and fruitfulness is obedience, it also helps our well-being. | Isaiah 48:18-19 NASB | If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. “Your descendants would have been like the sand, and your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.” |
| God can make our mouth a sword and our lives an arrow ready for His use. | Isaiah 49:2 NASB | And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me, and He has also made Me a select arrow; He has hidden Me in His quiver. |
| Faith – walk in faith or walk in sorrow. | Isaiah 50:10-11 KJV | Who is among you that fearth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand: ye shall lie down in sorrow. |
| God calls us first, when we have no fruit, then He multiplies us, like He did to Abraham. | Isaiah 51:2 NASB | Look to Abraham your Father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was one I called him, then I blessed him and multiplied him. |
| Bringing good news to a land gives you beautiful feet. | Isaiah 52:7 NASB | How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” |
| Prophecy of Jesus’ healing power and of how Jesus must suffer. | Isaiah 53:5 KJV | But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. |
| Sin. All of us have gone our own way. | Isaiah 53:6 KJV | All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. |
| God promises that our children will be healthy and they will be taught by Him. | Isaiah 54:13 NASB | And all your sons will be taught of the Lord; and the well-being of your sons will be great. |
| Priorities – Don’t spend yourself on things that can’t satisfy but delight in God. | Isaiah 55:2 NASB | Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. |
| Our thoughts and ways are nothing in comparison to God’s | Isaiah 55:9 NASB | For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. |
| Preaching God’s word is always away to get His will done – it doesn’t come back void. | Isaiah 55:11 KJV | So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. |
| All of nature bursts out in song and praise at the walk of God’s sons. | Isaiah 55:12 KJV | For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. |
| If we put out sin then shall we be prosperous | Isaiah 58:9 KJV | Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity: |
| If we really love people our darkness will be changed to sunlight. | Isaiah 58:10 KJV | And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday. |
| God will fill us, guide us and satisfy us. He will strengthen us and make us a watered garden. | Isaiah 58:11 NASB | And the Lord will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. |
| Keeping the Sabath, make our life better and He will be our delight. | Isaiah 58:14 NASB | Then you will take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. |
| God will still save but our sins keep us from Him. | Isaiah 59:1-2 KJV | Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. |
| God’s Spirit and His words will not leave our mouths nor our descendants mouths, forever. | Isaiah 59:21 NASB | And as for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offpring,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.” |
| The Lord is our light. We don’t need the sun. | Isaiah 60:19 KJV | The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. |
| In God’s timing He will make the smallest people of Israel a nation. | Isaiah 60:22 NASB | The smallest one will become a clan, and the least one a mighty nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time. |
| We will be called oaks of righteousness to glorify God, when we will be happy, giving thanks. | Isaiah 61:3 NASB | To grant those who mourn in Zion, giving them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. |
| We are His workmanship like a potter works in clay. | Isaiah 64:8 KJV | But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. |
| God hears us immediately from heaven and answers prayers. | Isaiah 65:24 KJV | And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear |
| God created all and will look only on the humble, those excited at His word. | Isaiah 66:2 NASB | For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord. “But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word. |
| People make idols and rituals that won’t hold God’s living water. | Jer 2:13 KJV | For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. |
| We should not glory in ourselves, but only in God. | Jer 9:23-24 KJV | Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgement, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. |
| We must bear all our bad, hard and grievous times. | Jer 10:19 KJV | Woe is me for my hurt! My wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. |
| If we can’t keep up now in the easy, calm situations we are in, how will we do when it gets rough. | Jer 12:5 NASB | If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan? |
| We can keep our land from becoming desolate by being concerned and take it to heart | Jer 12:11 NASB | It has been made a desolation, Desolate, it mourns before Me; the whole land has been made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. |
| His word is in us and it is our joy, because we are called Christians | Jer 15:16 KJV | Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. |
| Christians are like non-worrying trees, never anxious, always fruit bearing. | Jer 17:8 NASB | For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit. |
| Heart is really bad and it is impossible to know it. | Jer 17:9 KJV | The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? |
| When we memorize scripture it becomes boiling inside and we can’t hold it in. | Jer 20:9 KJV | Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. |
| God is powerful within us, a mighty warrior. Our persecutors will not win. | Jer 20:11 NASB | But the Lord is with me like a dread champion; Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed, with an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten. |
| God will put people over us and we won’t be afraid, they will tend us, and shepherd us. | Jer 23:4 NASB | I shall also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord. |
| God is close to us all and none can hide. | Jer 23:23-24 KJV | Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. |
| God’s word is like a rock-breaking hammer. It is consuming. | Jer 23:29 KJV | Is not my word like as a fire? Saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? |
| God thinks out our lives to give us the best future. | Jer 29:11 KJV | For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. |
| God plans out our lives to give us the best future. | Jer 29:11 NASB | For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. |
| God shows us unknown things, fantastic stuff, if we just call out to Him. | Jer 33:3 KJV | Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not |
| Don’t do God’s work neglectfully or deceitfully, and don’t withhold the sword. | Jer 48:10 NASB | Cursed be the one who does the Lord’s work negligently (or deceitfully), And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood. |
| We need to pour out our hearts for our children who are faint with hunger. | Lam 2:19 NASB | Arise, cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him for the life of your little ones who are faint because of hunger at the head of every street. |
| God is faithful. His compassions are made new. | Lam 3:22-23 KJV | It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. |
| Wait for God in hope and He will be good to us. He is our portion. | Lam 3:24-25 NASB | The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I have hope in Him.” The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him. |
| God shows Himself Holy to others by our lives, when He redeems and gathers us. | Ezek 20:41 NASB | As a soothing aroma I shall accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I shall prove Myself holy among you in the sight of the nations. |
| God is always looking for only one person to care, and then He will spare men. | Ezek 22:30 KJV | And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. |
| God doesn’t like to see the wicked perish but rather to see them repent. | Ezek 33:11 NASB | Say to them, “As I live!” declares the Lord God, “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?” |
| God will increase our number like a flock if we just ask. | Ezek 36:37 KJV | Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. |
| When God fills the dead cities with holy flocks then they will know Him | Ezek 36:38 KJV | As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord. |
| The priests inheritance was God Himself. They didn’t get any land, just God. | Ezek 44:28 NASB | And it shall be with regard to an inheritance for them, that I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel – I am their possession. |
| Three men knew God could deliver them from the furnace and that He would deliver from the King. | Dan 3:17-18 NASB | If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O King. “But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O King, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” |
| Nebuchadnezzar learned and states of God’s Sovereignty. | Dan 4:35 KJV | And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, what doest thou? |
| Married to God in many ways in order to know Him. | Hosea 2:19-20 KJV | And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord. |
| Knowledge is important: God rejected Israel because lacked it. | Hosea 4:6 KJV | My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. |
| God chastens us but He also helps and heals us. | Hosea 6:1 KJV | Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. |
| God is like the rain watering the earth, He wants us to kno Him, even if it means pressing on. | Hosea 6:3 NASB | So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. |
| Only to know mor about God and not the traditions of men. | Hosea 6:6 KJV | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| The land that’s been ploughed needs to be broken up and sown; we will reap | Hosea 10:12 NASB | Sow with a view to righteousness, reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes to rain righteousness on you. |
| God waters us and we are like flowers and have aroma like cedars. | Hosea 14:5-6 KJV | I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His braches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. |
| The word of God is to be told from generation to generation – multiplication. | Joel 1:3 NASB | Tell your sons about it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons the next generation. |
| Our fruit will remain if we shepherd them in God’s strength and majesty, like Jesus. | Micah 5:4-5 NASB | And He will arise and shepherd His flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord His God. And they will remain, because at that time He will be great to the ends of the earth. And this One will be our peace. [When the Assyrian invades our land, when he tramples on our citadels, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.] |
| Christians are among the world like dew from God and showers on a garden. | Micah 5:7 NASB | Then the remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on vegetation which do not wait for man or delay for the sons of men. |
| We are to walk humbly with God, in goodness, justice, and kindness. | Micah 6:8 NASB | He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? |
| God delights in unchanging love; therefore, He doesn’t keep His anger forever, but forgives sin. | Micah 7:18 NASB | Who is a God like Thee, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in unchanging love. |
| God’s promises will be fulfilled for certain. If they seem to tarry, we should wait for them. | Hab 2:3 NASB | For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay. |
| God will be happy with us, because He will do it – He is a victorious warrior. | Zeph 3:17 NASB | The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. |
| You don’t have enough to live on and what you earn goes into a bag with holes. | Haggai 1:6 NASB | You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes. |
| Prophets tell of men calling friends into Israel and into the Church. | Zech 3:10 KJV | In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree. |
| We the remnant will have peace, dew from heaven and fruit from our land. | Zech 8:12 NASB | For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the heavens will give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. |
| If we don’t take God seriously and honor Him, He will curse our blessings. | Malachi 2:2 NASB | If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings, and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart. |
| Jesus prophecied to walk equal with God. | Malachi 2:6 KJV | The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. |
| Give God His portion and see if He won’t open up heaven and pour it out until there is no more need. | Malachi 3:10 NASB | Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing until it overflows. |
| Jesus was prophesied to be born of a virgin and called Immanuel, God with us. | Matt 1:22-23 NASB | Now all this took place that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled saying, “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a Son, and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.” |
| The three wise men saw Jesus’ star in the sky and caome to worship Him | Matt 2:2 NASB | Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east, and have come to worship Him. |
| The angle told Joseph to come back into Israel after Herod died | Matt 2:19-20 NASB | But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, “Arise and take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.” |
| John the Baptist calls Pharisees vipers, and asked, “who warned you about the wrath” | Matt 3:7 NASB | But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” |
| Wheat to the barn and chaff to the fire God is going to clean his floor completely | Matt 3:12 NASB | And His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. |
| The heavens were opened immediately after Jesus rose up from the water | Matt 3:16 NASB | And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him. |
| Word, live by it. | Matt 4:4 KJV | But he answered and said, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” |
| Don’t serve sin, we must throw out satan. | Matt 4:10 KJV | Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. |
| Light came to those in the shadow of death and to those who were in darkness. | Matt 4:16 NASB | The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, upon them a light dawned. |
| Witnessing is like capturing men, to do it we have to follow Jesus | Matt 4:19 KJV | And he saith unto them, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” |
| The gentle shall be inheriting the earth, they are truly blessed | Matt 5:5 NASB | Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. |
| Just hunger for doing right and it will come | Matt 5:6 KJV | Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. |
| Purity means that we can see God, what a blessing | Matt 5:8 NASB | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. |
| Good works are needed otherwise, we will fall to men | Matt 5:13 KJV | Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. |
| We are all lights, we shouldn’t hide it but set it out for all to see | Matt 5:14-15 KJV | Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. |
| Good works, let other see them | Matt 5:16 KJV | Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. |
| The Law will not at all pass away until all is accomplished, at the end | Matt 5:18 NASB | For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. |
| Being angry is bad, but saying “Blockhead” or “fool” gets you in deep trouble, hell | Matt 5:22 NASB | But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever shall say to his brother, “Raca,” shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever shall say, “You fool,” shall be guilty enough to go into the hell of fire. |
| Thinking about sex and lusting in my mind is sin | Matt 5:27-28 NASB | You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery”; but I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. |
| Don’t swear just say yes or no, anything else is evil | Matt 5:37 NASB | But let your statement be, “Yes, yes” or “No, no and anything beyond these is of evil” |
| We should love enough to do not only our duty, but even go further | Matt 5:40-41 NASB | And if any one wants to sue you, and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. And whoever shall force you to go one mile, go with him two. |
| God sends rain and sunshine down on the good and the bad, therefore we too should love our enemies | Matt 5:45 NASB | in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. |
| We are to be just like God, perfect | Matt 5:48 NASB | Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. |
| Don’t be religous before men or else you will loose your reward | Matt 6:1 KJV | Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. |
| In giving of money, don’t let another person know, not even a close friend | Matt 6:3-4 NASB | But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you. |
| Prayer closets are commanded by Jesus and God who sees you there will repay | Matt 6:6 NASB | But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will repay you. |
| God sees our fasting in secret, repaying us so that we need not show it to people | Matt 6:17-18 NASB | But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face so that you may not be seen fasting by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you. |
| Thieves steal and rust eats our possessions here on earth, so put it all in heaven | Matt 6:19 KJV | Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; |
| Materialism, don’t serve your possessions | Matt 6:24 KJV | No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. |
| Don’t worry about the flesh, your life and body mean more than what we eat and the close we wear | Matt 6:25 KJV | Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than rainment? |
| God feeds the birds, He will certainly feed us too | Matt 6:26 KJV | Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? |
| Thinking or worrying will not at all make us taller | Matt 6:27 KJV | Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? |
| Christ before flesh, these things will be given if we seek Him. | Matt 6:33 KJV | But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. |
| Don’t worry about the future, only be concerned about today | Matt 6:34 KJV | Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. |
| Before counseling anybody, get the problems out of your own life. | Matt 7:5 NASB | You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. |
| Don’t give your gems of revelation to those unworthy else they turn and trample you | Matt 7:6 NASB | Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. |
| God surely opens doors, gives and shows us when we ask of Him and seek Him | Matt 7:8 NASB | For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened. |
| Prayer is answered because He is Dad | Matt 7:11 KJV | If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? |
| The golden rule, the law summed up in one verse | Matt 7:12 NASB | Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. |
| The road to heaven | Matt 7:13-14 KJV | Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in there at: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. |
| You cannot get good fruit from a bad tree nor vice versa, good bears good. | Matt 7:17-18 KJV | Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruit. |
| At judgment many will say they did many good works in Jesus’ name but that won’t help | Matt 7:22 NASB | Many will say to Me on that day, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in You name perform many miracles?” |
| We are built upon a rock and no matter what comes we will stand | Matt 7:24-25 KJV | Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. |
| The leper had faith that Jesus could heal him if He were willing | Matt 8:1-2 NASB | And when He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And behold, a leper came to Him, and bowed down to Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” |
| Such humility even out of a Roman officer | Matt 8:8 KJV | The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. |
| Jesus healed people to fulfill the prophecy that He took and carried our infirmities | Matt 8:17 NASB | in order that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, “He Himself took our infirmities, and carried away our diseases.” |
| One disciple wanted to go and bury his father before following Jesus | Matt 8:21 NASB | And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” |
| The disciples wondered that the sea and wind were calmed by Jesus | Matt 8:27 NASB | And the men marveled, saying, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” |
| The demons in Legion knew their time was coming and inquired if He came to torment them | Matt 8:29 NASB | And behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with You, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?” |
| Jesus said we would fast today but not the disciples when He was here | Matt 9:15 KJV | And Jesus said unto them, “Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. |
| Pray for men to help in God’s harvest | Matt 9:37-38 KJV | Then saith he unto his disciples, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” |
| Be wise like the devil but do not be wicked | Matt 10:16 KJV | Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. |
| God’s Spirit speaks for us so don’t worry about how to talk | Matt 10:19-20 KJV | But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. |
| Love, God’s care for man is as great as His care for the animals | Matt 10:29-31 PHIL | Two sparrows sell for a penny, don’t they? Yet not a single sparrow falls to the ground without your father’s knowledge. The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Never be afraid then – you are far more valuable than sparrows. |
| Witnessing, never deny Him | Matt 10:32-33 KJV | Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. |
| To be Christ’s disciples we have to take up our cross | Matt 10:38 KJV | And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. |
| The only people who know God are those to whom Jesus reveals Him | Matt 11:27 NASB | All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son, except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him |
| He will give us rest, learn of Jesus, His burden is light | Matt 11:28-30 KJV | Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke in easy, and my burden is light. |
| Be careful in idle talk, we will be held accountable for it. | Matt 12:36 KJV | But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. |
| Parable of the sower, the fate of the seed in the pathway | Matt 13:3-4 KJV | Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And whe he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: |
| Sowing in good ground brings forth much fruit | Matt 13:8 KJV | But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. |
| Remember and keep the word; otherwise, like any other possession it can be taken away. | Matt 13:12 NASB | For whoever has, to him shall more be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him. |
| Let weeds and wheat live together until harvest then separate them | Matt 13:30 KJV | Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |
| The kingdom of God is like finding treasure in a field | Matt 13:44 KJV | Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. |
| A pearl of great price, worth all that we have; this is the Kingdom | Matt 13:45-46 NASB | Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it. |
| If God doesn’t start the work or make the Christian, it will be rooted up. | Matt 15:13 NASB | But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up”. |
| Wisdom, people know a lot, but not His signs | Matt 16:2-3 PHIL | But he replied, “When the evening comes you say, ‘Ah, fine weather – the sky is red.’ In the morning you say, ‘There will be a storm today, the sky is red and threatening’. Yes, you know how to interpret the look of the sky, but you have no idea how to interpret the signs of the times!” |
| Peter answering who Jesus actually is | Matt 16:15-16 KJV | He saith unto them, “But whom say ye that I am?” And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” |
| Be humble like a child and be the greatest | Matt 18:4 KJV | Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. |
| Cut your leg off if it causes you to fall; it is better than falling | Matt 18:8 NASB | And if you hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire. |
| Fellowship, meeting together means having Jesus present | Matt 18:20 KJV | For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. |
| Don’t be like the Gentiles but the greatest one, he should be the servant | Matt 20:26-27 KJV | But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: |
| Pray and have faith and He will give us all things | Matt 21:22 KJV | And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. |
| Marriage to Jesus is what the kingdom is all about | Matt 22:2 KJV | The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, |
| The second of the two great commandments that Jesus taught | Matt 22:39-40 KJV | And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these tow commandments hang all the law and the prophets. |
| Jesus gives us work only according to our ability. | Matt 25:15 KJV | And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. |
| Jesus’ humanity: sorrowful to the point of death and needing fellowship | Matt 26:38 NASB | Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.” |
| The guard at the crucifixion even said that Jesus was the Son of God | Matt 27:54 KJV | Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God”. |
| Jesus is all powerful, therefore we should use it in making disciples | Matt 28:18 KJV | And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. |
| Witnessing, teach them thy commandments | Matt 28:19-20 KJV | Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen |
| Possibly Mark’s title or intent in writting the gospel | Mark 1:1 NASB | The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; |
| Be like Jesus in quiet times and do them in the right type place (quiet solitude) | Mark 1:35 KJV | And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. |
| Jesus heals the palsy victim to show His power over sin | Mark 2:10-11 KJV | But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,” (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) “I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy be, and go thy way into thine house.” |
| Don’t force new Christian’s into old doctrines but only into young Christian’s doctrines | Mark 2:22 KJV | And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. |
| Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath; it was made for man and not vice versa | Mark 2:27-28 NASB | And He was saying to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Consequently, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” |
| Jesus healed the man with the withered hand in spite of the hardened Pharisees | Mark 3:5 NASB | And after looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. |
| The whole purpose in choosing the twelve is so He could be with them | Mark 3:14-15 NASB | And He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him, and that He might send them out to preach, and to have authority to cast out the demons. |
| Jesus couldn’t spoil the devil’s work unless he first finished him on the cross | Mark 3:27 KJV | No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. |
| We can have a very close relationship with Jesus by doing God’s will | Mark 3:35 KJV | For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. |
| The sower sowing on the stony ground resulted in their withering away | Mark 4:5-6 KJV | And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. |
| Sower, seeds sown into the tares | Mark 4:7 KJV | And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. |
| Non-Christians hear everything in parables but we know the mysteries of God | Mark 4:11 NASB | And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God; but those who are outside get everything in parables. |
| Use what revelation you have, in the same proportion as given, or else you won’t get any more | Mark 4:24 KJV | And he said unto them, “Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.” |
| We cannot see nor understand how fruit comes to the kingdom | Mark 4:26-27 KJV | And he said, “So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.” |
| The Kingdom of God is like the seed of a mustard tree after it is sown | Mark 4:31-32 KJV | It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater that all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. |
| Actions people take when truly demon possessed, Legion’s actions | Mark 5:5 NASB | And constantly night and day, among the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out and gashing himself with stones. |
| Man healed wanted to stay with Jesus but He told him to go home and witness | Mark 5:19 KJV | Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, “Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.” |
| In Jesus’ hometown he could do no miracles, just healings, because of their unbelief | Mark 6:5-6 NASB | And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands upon a few sick people and healed them. And He wondered at their unbelief, and He was going around the villages teaching. |
| The multitudes were like sheep without a shepherd | Mark 6:34 KJV | And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. |
| It isn’t what goes in but what comes out that defiles a man. | Mark 7:15 NASB | there is nothing outside the man which going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. |
| Trying to keep away from the cross is looking at man’s interests not God’s | Mark 8:33 NASB | But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.” |
| Fasting gets more accomplished | Mark 9:29 KJV | And He said unto them, “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” |
| Only as children do we make it into heaven | Mark 10:15 KJV | Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. |
| You cannot get into God’s Kingdom by trusting in material things | Mark 10:24 KJV | And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, “Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!” |
| Forsake all for Christ and ye shall receive much more | Mark 10:29-30 KJV | Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. |
| Serve other, Jesus gave His life for others | Mark 10:45 KJV | For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. |
| Prayer and believing it will be answered insures answers | Mark 11:23 KJV | For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. |
| Memorizing God’s word, do it to keep youself from error | Mark 12:24 KJV | And Jesus answering said unto them, “Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?” |
| The law summed up by one statement about loving God. | Mark 12:30 KJV | And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. |
| Careful that you don’t do things to be see and feed our dgos like the Scribes did | Mark 12:38-39 KJV | And he said unto them in his doctrine, “Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:” |
| When found the last time sleeping, the disciples were so crushed that they couldn’t speak | Mark 14:40 NASB | And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him. |
| Preach to every creature in all the world. | Mark 16:15 KJV | And he said unto them, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” |
| Zacarias prophesied about serving God without fear, in holiness and righteousness | Luke 1:74-75 NASB | To grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days. |
| John the Baptist was prophesied to be the prophet and prepare His ways | Luke 1:76 NASB | And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; For you will go on before the Lord to prepare His ways; |
| Jesus obeyed His parents even when they told him to come home from the temple | Luke 2:51 NASB | And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart. |
| Sometimes the Spirit of God leads us into trials, even Spirit filled Christians | Luke 4:1 KJV | And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, |
| After Jesus was tempted, Satan left him, but only for a little while | Luke 4:12-13 KJV | And Jesus answering said unto him, “It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. |
| We cannot allow experiences to keep us from doing what Christ says | Luke 5:5 NASB | And Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but at Your bidding will let down the nets.” |
| Jesus used to sip away to the desert and pray often | Luke 5:16 NASB | But He Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray. |
| When we hive men new doctrines, they don’t do them but they just stick to their old ways | Luke 5:39 KJV | No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. |
| Jesus chose the twelve but spent all night in prayer before hand | Luke 6:12-13 NASB | And it was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God. And when day came, He called His disciples to Him; and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles: |
| Kingdom is for the poor, the sermon on the mount spoken to the disciples | Luke 6:20 NASB | And turning His gaze on His disciples, He began to say, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” |
| When men stop talking to you and hate you because you are Christians, Praise God! | Luke 6:22 KJV | Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. |
| Be exceedingly happy when people cast you out for being Christians | Luke 6:23 KJV | Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. |
| We need to be temperate in our eating habits or else we shall go hungry | Luke 6:25 NASB | Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. |
| Love – Everybody should love one another even the “bad” ones. | Luke 6:27-28 KJV | But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. |
| Love without getting any love in return. | Luke 6:32 KJV | For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. |
| Give and get with the same amount you deal out | Luke 6:38 KJV | Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. |
| Spiritual reproduction; our children end up like us at the best | Luke 6:40 NASB | A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher. |
| Our actions show our attitudes, and the innermost thoughts of our heart | Luke 6:45 KJV | A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. |
| A woman shows her faith in Jesus and her sins are forgiven by her love for Him | Luke 7:47-48 NASB | For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.” And He said to her, “Your sins have been forgiven.” |
| Jesus explaines the seed soewn in the tares | Luke 8:14 KJV | And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. |
| The seed sown on good ground will bring forth fruit patiently | Luke 8:15 KJV | But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. |
| Jesus taught his disciples when the burden was heavy for them and they wanted out | Luke 9:12 KJV | And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victals: for we are here in a desert place. |
| Jesus asked his disciples what the common thought of him was | Luke 9:18 KJV | And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, “Whom say the people that I am?” |
| Jesus taught how death and suffering were necessary before the resurrection | Luke 9:22 KJV | Saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.” |
| Christ before flesh, we must do our part every day | Luke 9:23 KJV | And he said to them all, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” |
| Put Christ first, to have all is nothing | Luke 9:24-25 KJV | For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?” |
| Jesus said to think hard and meditate that He must go to the cross | Luke 9:44 KJV | Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. |
| We must continue striving and never look back. | Luke 9:62 KJV | And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. |
| People who reject us are rejecting both Jesus and God, for they are hearing them in us | Luke 10:16 NASB | The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me. |
| God hid these good things from intelligent and smart people and gave them to babies | Luke 10:21 KJV | In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. |
| If we do miracles by God’s Spirit then the day of visitation is come | Luke 11:20 KJV | But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. |
| Putting people under the law keeps them from coming to true knowledge | Luke 11:52 KJV | Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. |
| Life is more than our possessions, so do not be greedy | Luke 12:15 NASB | And He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.” |
| Christ before flesh, have wealth toward God | Luke 12:20-21 RSV | But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. |
| God clothes the grass in all its beauty, He certainly will clothe us with greater | Luke 12:28 NASB | But if God so arrays the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O men of little faith! |
| Jesus wants us to give “all” to the poor so that we won’t put it into a bag with holes | Luke 12:33-34 NASB | Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves purses which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near, nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. |
| If God puts you in charge of a group of people to feed them, you are blessed only if you do it | Luke 12:42-43 NASB | And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. |
| Some invited to the big dinner made excuses about buying property | Luke 14:18 NASB | But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, “I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.” |
| Love the Lord most, more that anybody | Luke 14:26 KJV | If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. |
| Count the cost you will have to pay before you build the tower | Luke 14:28 KJV | For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? |
| When you lose money, much interest and effort is invested in finding it | Luke 15:8 KJV | Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? |
| When you do find money that you have lost, you rejoice greatly with your friends. | Luke 15:9 KJV | And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. |
| God’s compassion for his lost son’s and his happiness when they return | Luke 15:24 KJV | For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. |
| We need to be wise, and shrewd in our spiritual lives, just like the secular world | Luke 16:8 NASB | And his master praised the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light. |
| Use money and material goods to make friends and then lead them to Christ | Luke 16:9 KJV | And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. |
| Be faithful and trustworthy even on the bad things in life. | Luke 16:10-11 KJV | He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? |
| Be faithful in the things that belong to others and we will then get our own | Luke 16:12 KJV | And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? |
| If people don’t listen to the Word, they are not going to listen to miracles | Luke 16:31 KJV | nd he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. |
| Jesus commanded His disciples to rebuke those in sin and then forgive them | Luke 17:3 NASB | Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. |
| A slave is forced to serve with no thanks even after a hard days work | Luke 17:8-9 NASB | But will he not say to him, “Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me until I have eaten and drunk; and afterward you will eat and drink”? He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he? |
| Our answer when someone praises us for doing good | Luke 17:10 KJV | So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. |
| We should realize that we are sinners and unworthy to lift our heads like the tax-gather | Luke 18:13 NASB | But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ |
| God’s Kingdom is made up of children, don’t hinder them from coming | Luke 18:16 KJV | But Jesus called them unto him, and said, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. |
| Pray according to Jesus or God’s will and we will be helped | Luke 22:42-43 KJV | Saying, “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. |
| God’s unique expression was living at the start of time with Him. | John 1:1-2 KJV | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. |
| Jesus came to his creation, but they would not receive Him. | John 1:10-11 KJV | He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. |
| Salvation, we become sons by believing in His name | John 1:12 KJV | But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: |
| Born again, only of God | John 1:13 KJV | Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. |
| God’s wisdom or expression became man and lived here on earth. | John 1:14 KJV | And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. |
| John the Baptist’s ministry was to tell of Jesus, His authority and rank | John 1:15 NASB | John bore witness of Him, and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.'” |
| The law came by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus and this we have received | John 1:16-17 NASB | For of His fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. |
| Nobody has seen God, but we can know Him through Jesus | John 1:18 KJV | No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. |
| Jesus was so close to the disciples they were like family, going everywhere together | John 2:12 NASB | After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother, and His brothers, and His disciples; and there they stayed a few days. |
| Don’t let materialism reign in our bodies, the temples of God | John 2:16 KJV | And said unto them that sold doves, “Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.” |
| We must be born again if we are to see God | John 3:3 KJV | Jesus answered and said unto him, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. |
| We have to be born again because the flesh is nothing | John 3:6-7 KJV | That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. |
| Being lead of the Spirit means not knowing where, when, or how you are going | John 3:8 KJV | The wind blowehth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit. |
| Salvation, given to anybody believing in His Son | John 3:16 KJV | For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever beleiveth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. |
| God’s intentions were for salvation of man not for judgment and condemnation. | John 3:17 KJV | For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. |
| Death is because of sin not because we don’t believe in Jesus Christ. | John 3:18 KJV | He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. |
| Spending time with His men, this is the way Jesus trained his disciples | John 3:22 NASB | After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea; and there He was spending time with them, and baptizing. |
| To become Christians people need to know what the gift really is and the authority of Jesus | John 4:10 NASB | Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” |
| Drink of Jesus’ water and it will spring into eternal life | John 4:13-14 KJV | Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. |
| God wants people to worship him in truth and in spirit | John 4:23 KJV | But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. |
| Jesus was satisfied in doing what God wanted | John 4:34 KJV | Jesus saith unto them, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” |
| People are ripe for harvest, look and see | John 4:35 KJV | Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. |
| Both sowers and reapers rejoice over the fruit. | John 4:36 KJV | And he that reapeth receiveth wages; and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. |
| When we lead someone to Christ, we enter into the labors of other people who originally sowed the seed | John 4:38 NASB | I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. |
| Men of Samaria said that they believed not just on the woman’s testimony but they saw for themselves too | John 4:42 NASB | and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.” |
| The term “Son of God” to the Pharisees, had the meaning of God Himself | John 5:18 KJV | Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. |
| Jesus does only what He sees God doing, what God does, He does in the same way | John 5:19 NASB | Jesus therefore answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. |
| Assurance of Salvation, hearing His word and believing give us salvation | John 5:24 KJV | Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. |
| Jewish people should read the Old Testament, it will lead them to Jesus | John 5:39 KJV | Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. |
| God’s Spiritual Provision, the Bread of Life | John 6:35 KJV | And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. |
| God’s will is that none of us should be lost, but for Jesus to raise us up at the end | John 6:39 NASB | And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. |
| The Father draws us, no one can come unless He draws them | John 6:44 KJV | No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. |
| We must all be taught by God in order to come to Him. | John 6:45 KJV | It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned from the Father, cometh unto Me. |
| Many disciples thought some of Jesus’ comands were too much | John 6:60 KJV | Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? |
| We must use the word, for it is the things that gives life | John 6:63 KJV | It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. |
| Jesus had words of eternal life, that is why the disciples would not leave | John 6:67-68 NASB | Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.” |
| Jesus was uneducated yet people marveled at his learning, it wasn’t His but God’s | John 7:15-16 NASB | The Jews therfore were marveling, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?” Jesus therfore answered them, and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. |
| People have to be willing to do God’s will and then they will know if Jesus is true | John 7:17 NASB | If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself. |
| Our goal should always be to seek the glory of God, and not our own glory, leading to sins of the tongue. | John 7:18 NASB | He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who is seeking the glory of the one who sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. |
| His Spiritual Provision, Jesus is living water to those who thirst | John 7:37-38 KJV | In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. |
| Jesus said to the Jews who brought the prostitute, he who is without sin throw first | John 8:7 NASB | But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” |
| Lift up Jesus then we will know he is the one | John 8:28 KJV | Then said Jesus unto them, “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.” |
| The Word, Truth which leads to freedom | John 8:31-32 KJV | Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” |
| Freedom, it is a reality if Jesus gives it to you | John 8:36 KJV | If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. |
| Jesus had to be sinless, if not why couldn’t the Pharisees show Him even a single sin | John 8:46 KJV | Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? |
| Jesus is God, the eternal I Am | John 8:58 KJV | Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. |
| Night is coming when we can’t work, therefore work NOW! | John 9:4-5 NASB | We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day, night is coming, when no man can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. |
| We should all be witnesses, we don’t have to fight and defend | John 9:25 KJV | He answered and said, “Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.” |
| The Pharisees didn’t know where Jesus was from; The blind man was amazed knowing that he was healed | John 9:30 NASB | The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes. |
| Jesus came to let the ignorant see, and for those who think they know all will become blind | John 9:39 KJV | And Jesus said, “For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.” |
| To be able to see we must say “I can see nothinb by myself.” | John 9:40-41 KJV | And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said unto them, “If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, ‘We see’; therefore your sin remaineth.” |
| We should lead our sheep, call them by name, and enter through Jesus the door | John 10:2-3 NASB | But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. |
| Abundant life, Jesus the good shepherd gives it to his sheep | John 10:10-11 KJV | The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. |
| Jesus gives us eternal life and we shall never perish because we are His sheep | John 10:27-28 NASB | My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. |
| Assurance of salvation, no one can take us out of God’s hands | John 10:29-30 KJV | My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. |
| Eternal life in Christ, He is the resurrection | John 11:25-26 KJV | Jesus said unto her, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? |
| Our old man must be crucified, in order to bring forth fruit | John 12:24 KJV | Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. |
| On the cross, Jesus put an end to Satan. | John 12:31-32 KJV | Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. |
| It is the Word that judges us, therefore we ought to know what it says | John 12:48 NASB | He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. |
| We need to speak God’s words exactly, word for word, because they are eternal life | John 12:50 NASB | And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.” |
| Jesus was able to serve because He knew that God gave Him all, that he came from and returns to God | John 13:3-4 NASB | Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God, and was going back to God, rose from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, girded Himself about. |
| Humility, do it like Jesus did it | John 13:14-15 KJV | If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. |
| Love, this shines forth to others our relationship with Jesus | John 13:34-35 KJV | A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another, By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. |
| Don’t worry, believe in both Jesus and God | John 14:1 NASB | Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. |
| Heaven, Jesus is making us a mansion | John 14:2-3 KJV | In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. |
| We sometimes can’t see where Jesus is going and thus we can’t see the way, but we must follow | John 14:4-5 NASB | And you know the way where I am going.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; how do we know the way?” |
| Salvation — by Jesus, no other way. | John 14:6 KJV | Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. |
| People should see and know God from our lives, by seeing and knowing us | John 14:7 NASB | If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.” |
| A real disciple’s desire is to see God and that is enough | John 14:8 NASB | Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” |
| People who saw Jesus saw God, why did they say show us the Father? | John 14:9 NASB | Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how do you say, ‘Show us the Father’? |
| The works and sayings of Jesus are actually the Father’s works | John 14:10 KJV | Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. |
| Our works should exemplify that God lives within us like it did in Jesus. | John 14:11 NASB | Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; otherwise believe on account of the works themselves. |
| We can do what Jesus did and even more by believing | John 14:12 NASB | Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father. |
| Assurance of answered prayer, if you ask it in Jesus’ name | John 14:13-14 NASB | And whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. |
| Another Helper sent to us forever, also if we love Him we will obey Him | John 14:15-16 NASB | If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever. |
| The Spirit was with the disciples and is now in us, but the world can’t have it | John 14:17 NASB | that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you. |
| Because Jesus lives we do too, He said He would come to us and He has | John 14:18-19 NASB | I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. After a little while the world will behold Me no more; but you will behold Me; because I live, you shall live also. |
| When the Spirit comes we can know we are in Jesus and He is in us and we are in God | John 14:20 NASB | In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. |
| Love; If we love God, he loves us. | John 14:21 KJV | He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. |
| What did happen that Jesus shows us and not the world, its that we love Him | John 14:22 NASB | Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us, and not the world?” |
| Those who love Jesus are obedient, Jesus and God will come and live in that person | John 14:23 NASB | Jesus answered and said to 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 abode with him.” |
| Jesus’ words weren’t His but God’s and people who don’t love Him, don’t keep them | John 14:24 NASB | He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. |
| Jesus plainly taught while living with the disciples | John 14:25 NASB | These things I have spoken to you, while abiding with you. |
| Holy Spirit will teach us and remind us of the word | John 14:26 KJV | But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. |
| Peace, Jesus’ peace is different from all others | John 14:27 KJV | Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. |
| We should be glad that Jesus went to the Father, because He came to us and the Father is greater | John 14:28 NASB | You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. |
| Jesus was holy, Satan had nothing in him, He told us everything so we could believe when we see it | John 14:29-30 NASB | And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it comes to pass, you may believe. I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. |
| We can show the world that we love God by being obedient and even go to the cross | John 14:31 NASB | but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here. |
| God cleans us to bring forth more fruit | John 15:1-2 KJV | I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. |
| The word of God is what makes a man clean | John 15:3 KJV | Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. |
| In order to be fruitful we have to trust Christ like a vine | John 15:4 KJV | Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. |
| Jesus living in us, without Him we can do nothing | John 15:5 KJV | I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. |
| If you don’t abide in Jesus you are gathered and cast into the fire. | John 15:6 NASB | If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. |
| Prayer is answered if we have the word in our hearts | John 15:7 KJV | If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. |
| Bear fruit and glorify God and be His disciples | John 15:8 KJV | Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. |
| Jesus loved the disciples with the love God had for Him, live in His love. | John 15:9 NASB | Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. |
| Obey Jesus and live in His love just like Jesus lived in His Father’s love. | John 15:10 KJV | If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. |
| Jesus wanted His joy in us to its fullest extent | John 15:11 KJV | These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. |
| We are to love each other just like Jesus loved us. | John 15:12 NASB | This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. |
| Jesus love is the best | John 15:13 KJV | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
| Obedience to Jesus makes us His friends. | John 15:14 NASB | You are my friends, if you do what I command you. |
| We are friends because we know what God is doing.. Jesus let know. | John 15:15 NASB | No longer do I call you slaves; for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. |
| Build disciples so that God will answer our prayer | John 15:16 KJV | Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. |
| The world hated Jesus first, therefore we realy need to love everybody | John 15:17-18 NASB | This I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. |
| The world hates us because we’re not of it, but it could love us if we let it | John 15:19 NASB | If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. |
| We have to go through just what Jesus did, persecution and then keeping our word also. | John 15:20 NASB | Remember the word that I said to you, “A slave is not greater than his master.” If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. |
| The world does not know God, that is why they do the things that they do | John 15:21 NASB | But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. |
| When we preach the Gospel there is no more excuse for sin | John 15:22-23 NASB | If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. |
| When people see our works, they see God and we witness, and give an answer to sin | John 15:24 NASB | If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. |
| People hate us to fulfill what is written in the Law | John 15:25 NASB | But they have done this in order that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law, “They hated Me without a cause.” |
| Both God’s Spirit and we ourselves are going to witness to others | John 15:26-27 NASB | When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me, and you will bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning. |
| If Jesus had not died, raised up and ascended int heaven, the Spirit would not have come | John 16:7 NASB | But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. |
| Even now we are sad, and the world is happy, but our sadness will become joy | John 16:20 NASB | Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy. |
| Good things we do and the process of becoming a Christian is difficult but when finished it is joy | John 16:21 KJV | A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. |
| Assurance of Answered Prayer | John 16:24 KJV | Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. |
| The world brings tribulation, Jesus overcame the world, He spoke that in Him we could have peace | John 16:33 NASB | These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world. |
| Jesus’ definition of eternal life | John 17:3 KJV | And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. |
| The greatest saying a man can say at the end of his life | John 17:4 KJV | I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. |
| Christ’s ministry was to show God’s character and motivate people to obey His word | John 17:6 KJV | I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. |
| Jesus had only what God had given to Him, He communicated this to the twelve | John 17:7 NASB | Now they have come to know that everything Thou hast given Me is from Thee; |
| The disciples looked on Jesus as sent to them by God and so received His word | John 17:8 NASB | For the words which Thou gavest Me I have given to them; and they received them, and truly understood that I came forth from Thee, and they believed that Thou didst send Me. |
| Jesus prayed that God would keep us in His name because we are still in the world | John 17:11 NASB | And I am no more in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, the name which Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as We are. |
| We should keep our people in God’s character and we do this by living it in ourselves | John 17:12 NASB | While I was with them, I was keeping them in Thy name which Thou hast given Me; and I guarded them, and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. |
| The world hates us because we are not a part of it with them, Jesus was this way | John 17:14 KJV | I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. |
| The world hates us because we are not a part of it with them, Jesus was this way | John 17:14 KJV | I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. |
| Jesus sent the disciples into the world the same way God sent Him | John 17:17-18 NASB | Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. |
| Multiplication, Jesus sanctified Himself that the disciples could be sanctified, and their followers as well | John 17:19-20 NASB | And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask in behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; |
| All christians should be one, because Christ wanted it. | John 17:21 KJV | That they all may be one; as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. |
| God loves us, just like Jesus, who is in us that we may be perfected in unity | John 17:23 NASB | I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as Thou didst love Me. |
| We can behold Jesus’ glory by standing ready to go to the cross, that is what He wanted | John 17:24 NASB | Father, I desire that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; for Thou didst love Me before the foundation of the world. |
| Jesus knew God, the world did not, but the disciples knew Jesus was sent from God | John 17:25 NASB | O righteous Father, although the world has not known Thee, yet I have known Thee; and these have known that Thou didst send Me; |
| Jesus continues to make God known to us, so we may have Him and His love living in us | John 17:26 NASB | and I have made Thy name known to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith Thou didst love Me may be in them, and I in them. |
| We should never refuse to drink from the cup God gives us to drink from | John 18:11 KJV | Then said Jesus unto Peter, “Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?” |
| Jesus sends us to the same mission that God sent Him | John 20:21 KJV | Then said Jesus to them again, “Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” |
| The Bible was written so we could believe in Jesus and thus have life | John 20:31 NASB | but these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. |
| Jesus did so much that the books, if written, would be enormous | John 21:25 NASB | And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books which were written. |
| Witnessing, be witnesses in all the world | Acts 1:8 KJV | But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. |
| 3/4 of the wheel used by New Testament converts | Acts 2:42 KJV | And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers |
| There is only one way to be saved, and that is by Jesus. | Acts 4:12 KJV | Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. |
| Being with Jesus makes us confident even though we are uneducated or untrained | Acts 4:13 NASB | Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. |
| We need to pray in order to speak the word with boldness | Acts 4:29 KJV | And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, |
| Ananias was to go to Paul and heal his eyes, because Paul was God’s instrument to suffer and to witness | Acts 9:15-16 NASB | for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.” |
| God accepts people in all nations and loves them all | Acts 10:34-35 KJV | Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. |
| God wants salvation taken to the ends of the earth, this is why He made us lights | Acts 13:47 NASB | For thus the Lord has commanded us, “I have placed you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the end of the earth.” |
| Paul said “You must suffer tribulation” to those in Lystra, Antioch, and Iconium. He also strengthened and encourage them. | Acts 14:22 NASB | Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God”. |
| Paul reasoned with people from the word, proclaiming Jesus as the Christ; this was Pauls normal mode | Acts 17:2-3 NASB | And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ.” |
| Study daily to see if what we hear is in the Bible, and if it is true | Acts 17:11 KJV | These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. |
| The word is what produces fruit, both men and women | Acts 17:12 KJV | Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. |
| Paul indured and spoke to the people for 3 months before moving on | Acts 19:8 KJV | And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. |
| Paul commended the Ephesians to the word; it can build us up and give us an inheritance | Acts 20:32 NASB | And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. |
| Honesty, offend no one | Acts 24:16 KJV | And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. |
| Long for fellowship so both can grow by the faith of each other | Rom 1:11-12 KJV | For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. |
| Witnessing, never be ashamed to witness | Rom 1:16 KJV | For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. |
| Live by faith, God’s righteousness is shown by stepping stones of faith | Rom 1:17 NASB | For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.” |
| God gives internal evidence of His existance and brings wrath against suppression of that truth. | Rom 1:18-19 NASB | For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is know about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. |
| People can know God through the creation, but when they refuse it, they are without excuse | Rom 1:20 NASB | For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal powe and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. |
| Consequence for unbelief is worshiping the creation instead of God who created it. | Rom 1:25 NASB | For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. |
| Don’t judge others or else they will see your bad deeds | Rom 2:1 KJV | Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherin thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. |
| If you’ve never heard a law of conduct and sin, you just perish without judgment | Rom 2:12 KJV | For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; |
| Depravity, we don’t understand, we aren’t righteous, and we don’t even seek for God | Rom 3:10-11 NASB | as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God;” |
| All have sinned and come short of His standards | Rom 3:22-23 KJV | Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; |
| God displayed Jesus’ sacrifice publically for a demonstration and because of His forbearance. | Rom 3:25 NASB | Whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed. |
| Jesus had to die to demonstrate that God is both just and the justifier | Rom 3:26 NASB | for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. |
| Abraham believed even when it was unbelievable that he would become a father let alone a nation | Rom 4:18 NASB | In hope against hope he believed, in order that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” |
| Faith, Abraham’s example | Rom 4:20-21 KJV | He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. |
| Faith, we can obtain grace and peace. | Rom 5:1-2 KJV | Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. |
| Be joyful in tribulations, knowing that it builds up several aspects of our character | Rom 5:3-4 KJV | And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: |
| The Holy Spirit is given to show God’s love and to give us hope | Rom 5:5 NASB | and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. |
| Christ helped when we could do nothing because he died for the ungodly | Rom 5:6 NASB | For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. |
| We don’t very often see a man die for a righteous and good man | Rom 5:7 KJV | For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. |
| Assurance of salvation, Christ died while we were still sinning | Rom 5:8 KJV | But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. |
| If we have been justified by His blood, we certainly shall be saved | Rom 5:9 NASB | Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. |
| If we can be saved and reconciled from being enemies with God, certainly there is assurance of salvation | Rom 5:10 NASB | For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. |
| Adam released a monster (death) and it reigns, except for those who are Christians | Rom 5:17 NASB | For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. |
| We shouldn’t live in sin, how can we, we are dead to it | Rom 6:1-2 KJV | What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
| If you are baptized, you are baptized into death. | Rom 6:3 KJV | Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? |
| Buried with Christ allows us to live the new life. | Rom 6:4 KJV | Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. |
| Union with Christ in Death results in Union with Him in resurrection, for certain. | Rom 6:5 NASB | For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, |
| Crucified with Christ. Serve sin no more. | Rom 6:6-7 KJV | Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. |
| Death is no longer master over Jesus, and we died and rose with Him, therefore we are free | Rom 6:8-9 NASB | Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. |
| Christ died and is now living, just like Him, we should live unto God. | Rom 6:10-11 KJV | For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
| We sin by presenting our members to sin, we should present our members to God | Rom 6:12-13 NASB | Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteoursness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instrumemts of righteousness to God. |
| We are under grace and shouldn’t sin.. why? because sin is not master over us | Rom 6:14-15 NASB | For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! |
| What ever we serve, that is the one to whom we are servants | Rom 6:16 KJV | Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? |
| We bacame obedient, from the heart to God’s doctrine of righteous, we were also committed to it | Rom 6:17-18 NASB | But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. |
| We should be slaves to God for righteousness with the same zeal as we were sinners | Rom 6:19 NASB | I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness resulting in sanctification. |
| We do not get any benefit from sin and the outcome is death | Rom 6:20-21 NASB | For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. |
| The benefit of a close relationship with God is sanctification and the ultimate result is eternal life. | Rom 6:22 NASB | But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. |
| The price for sin is death | Rom 6:23 KJV | For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
| Married to Christ to bring forth spiritual children unto God. Dead to previous relationships like the Law. | Rom 7:4 KJV | Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. |
| Sin was shown to us by the law, but the law itself is not sin | Rom 7:7 KJV | What shall we say them? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. |
| The Law causes sin to become alive, and because of it, I died | Rom 7:9 NASB | And I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died; |
| We must be corrupt since the wanting is in me, but not the doing | Rom 7:18 NASB | For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. |
| We aren’t the ones doing wrong, it is sin living within us | Rom 7:19-20 KJV | For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. |
| It is war raging between the flesh and our mind, the flesh is trying to make us prisoners of sin | Rom 7:22-23 NASB | For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. |
| Living for Jesus, free from the law, no condemnation | Rom 8:1-2 KJV | There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. |
| God did what the Law couldn’t do, He condemned sin in the flesh | Rom 8:3 NASB | For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh. |
| We fulfill the Law when we walk according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh | Rom 8:4 NASB | in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. |
| Whatever we seek, that is what we care for | Rom 8:5 KJV | For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. |
| Set your mind on the Spirit and live, but not on the flesh. | Rom 8:6 KJV | For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. |
| The flesh can’t please God or even think of following His law | Rom 8:7-8 NASB | because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. |
| Christians have to receive the Holy Ghost at first or they aren’t Christians | Rom 8:9 KJV | But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. |
| The Spirit is alive even though our body is dead, that is, if we are Christians | Rom 8:10 NASB | And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. |
| God’s Spirit makes us alive just like the risen Christ | Rom 8:11 KJV | But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. |
| We don’t have to act the way the flesh demands | Rom 8:12 NASB | So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — |
| Living in the flesh leads to death, but putting to death the deeds of the body leads to life | Rom 8:13 NASB | for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. |
| Definition of “Sons of God” | Rom 8:14 KJV | For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. |
| We have a Spirit making us cry out “Daddy!” not a spirit of slavery and fear | Rom 8:15 NASB | For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” |
| We are heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ only when we suffer with Him | Rom 8:16-17 NASB | The Spirit Himself bears wittness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. |
| The hardship we have doesn’t even compare to the future glory we can expect | Rom 8:18 KJV | For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. |
| All of creation waits with anticipation for Christians to come to glory | Rom 8:19 NASB | For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. |
| Now creation is doomed to be polluted but later it will be set free with Christians | Rom 8:20-21 NASB | For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. |
| We groan and suffer waiting for adoption and redemption just like the entire creation. | Rom 8:22-23 NASB | For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. |
| Saved by hope, unseen hope | Rom 8:24-25 KJV | For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. |
| The Spirit helps us by praying and interceding for us | Rom 8:26 NASB | And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; |
| When we pray, the Spirit intercedes according to God’s will because the Spirit knows what it is | Rom 8:27 NASB | and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. |
| All things work together because of God’s purposes | Rom 8:28 KJV | And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. |
| God’s purpose for us is to be like Him | Rom 8:29 KJV | For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. |
| He wanted us to be like Jesus so He called us, justified us, and glorified us | Rom 8:30 NASB | and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. |
| With God for us, we have all that we need | Rom 8:31 NASB | What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? |
| His provision, Jesus died for us and now He will give us all | Rom 8:32 KJV | He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? |
| Nobody can condemn us, Jesus died, God justified, and Jesus intercedes for us | Rom 8:33-34 NASB | Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. |
| God said we would have tribulation, persecution, peril, etc, but they can’t separate us from His love | Rom 8:35-36 NASB | Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” |
| Through Christ we are more than conquerors during tough times | Rom 8:37 KJV | Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. |
| Nothing can take away our salvation | Rom 8:38-39 KJV | For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| God was willing to endure those made for destruction to show us His glory. | Rom 9:22-23 NASB | What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, |
| Confess in Him and believe the resurrection and you will be saved | Rom 10:9 KJV | That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. |
| Salvation, there is no prejudice, all we have to do is ask | Rom 10:12-13 KJV | For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. |
| In order for people to become a Christian, they need several things, but the essential is preaching | Rom 10:14 KJV | How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? |
| It is good that people be sent to preach the gospel, how else can others hear | Rom 10:15 NASB | And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings of good things!” |
| The word, it has gone out to everyone | Rom 10:17-18 KJV | So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. |
| Jews only fell to bring Gentiles to God, but they didn’t fall completely away | Rom 11:11 KJV | I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. |
| God’s ways can’t be understood; we can just sit in awe at His wisdom and knowledge | Rom 11:33 NASB | Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! |
| Christ before flesh, sacrifice everything | Rom 12:1 KJV | I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. |
| Separate from the world, to show what God wants | Rom 12:2 KJV | And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. |
| God gives us our faith, think soundly, recognizing this and not be proud | Rom 12:3 NASB | For through the grace given to me I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. |
| Give honor and love devoutly to our brothers | Rom 12:9-10 NASB | Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; |
| We are to be committed to prayer, persevering, always very diligent | Rom 12:11-12 NASB | not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, |
| Overcome evil with good and treat enemies nicely | Rom 12:20-21 KJV | Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. |
| Don’t live in darkness but in light, for the night is gone, and the day has come | Rom 13:12 KJV | The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. |
| Don’t judge other people, God can make them stand | Rom 14:4 KJV | Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth of falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. |
| We live and die to the Lord, so it makes no difference to die | Rom 14:7-8 KJV | For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. |
| Jesus’ whole purpose is to become Lord of those who are alive and the dead. | Rom 14:9 KJV | For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. |
| Build up each other and seek for peaceful things. | Rom 14:19 NASB | So then let us pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another. |
| Please our neighbors for their good, by bearing their weaknesses | Rom 15:1-2 NASB | Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. |
| The Bible and perseverance gives us hope and encouragement, it was written for our instruction | Rom 15:4 NASB | For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. |
| God gives us unity to glorify Himself, He also gives perseverance and encouragement | Rom 15:5-6 NASB | Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus; that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| We should never talk about anything unless we have experienced it and unless Jesus accomplished it | Rom 15:18 NASB | For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, |
| Paul’s desire was to disciple non-Christians, so that he wouldn’t build on another’s foundation | Rom 15:20 NASB | And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man’s foundation; |
| God will crush Satan under our feet if we are obedient, wise in good and pure | Rom 16:19-20 NASB | For the report of you obedience has reached to all; therefore, I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil. And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. |
| Get disputes settled, agree, and have the same mind with your brothers | 1Cor 1:10 NASB | Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. |
| We were sent to preach the cross, not to get hung up in baptism and fancy discourses | 1Cor 1:17 NASB | For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void. |
| The cross only has power to those of us who are saved. | 1Cor 1:18 KJV | For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. |
| God in His wisdom saves people by faith, which is foolishness to man’s wisdom. | 1Cor 1:21 NASB | For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. |
| To some it is false religion, but it is actually the only true approach to God | 1Cor 1:23-24 KJV | But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. |
| God is greater than man in wisdom and strength, much, much greater | 1Cor 1:25 KJV | Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. |
| The weak and foolish things where chosen to show up the wise | 1Cor 1:27 KJV | But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; |
| Don’t be intellectual but only preach Christ crucified | 1Cor 2:1-2 KJV | And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. |
| Our preaching shouldn’t be in men’s wisdom but by the Spirit’s demonstration and power | 1Cor 2:4-5 NASB | And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. |
| We should only speak of the hidden wisdom, God’s wisdom in a mystery | 1Cor 2:7 NASB | but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory; |
| Heaven, nobody knows what it is like | 1Cor 2:9 KJV | But as it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him”. |
| Great things, things hidden from superficial view, have been revealed to us by His Spirit | 1Cor 2:10 KJV | But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. |
| Nobody knows God’s thoughts except God’s Spirit | 1Cor 2:11 NASB | For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. |
| Assurance of Holy Spirit’s Presence | 1Cor 2:12 KJV | Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God |
| His Spirit is given to us so that we can know the things given to us | 1Cor 2:12 KJV | Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God |
| We should talk about real wisdom with Christians and only speak in the Spirit | 1Cor 2:13 KJV | Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. |
| No one can teach God or even knows His thoughts, but we have his mind | 1Cor 2:16 KJV | For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. |
| God is the one bringing people to Himself; those who witness and follow up are just servants | 1Cor 3:5-6 NASB | What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. |
| Working with people, we are nothing, God does it | 1Cor 3:7-8 KJV | So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. |
| Paul planted and another builds, but each man should take heed how people build in their lives | 1Cor 3:10 KJV | According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. |
| All of our work shall be shown in that day as to their type (self effort or fruit from God) | 1Cor 3:13 KJV | Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. |
| if all the works we do are burned up at the end we will still be saved | 1Cor 3:14-15 NASB | If any man’s work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire. |
| His Spirit lives in us, we are his temple | 1Cor 3:16 KJV | Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? |
| We need to be trustworthy stewards if we are to be stewards of God’s mysteries | 1Cor 4:1-2 NASB | Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy. |
| When Jesus comes he will reveal all hidden and secret things, therefore don’t judge others | 1Cor 4:5 NASB | Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will come to him from God. |
| It is better to be wronged or defrauded than to take a Christian to court | 1Cor 6:7 NASB | Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? |
| I can do anything but some things aren’t good for me and put me in bondage. | 1Cor 6:12 KJV | All things are lowful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. |
| Live with God in whatever you are called to, we have been purchased by Him | 1Cor 7:23-24 KJV | Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. |
| Pleasing your wife means looking at the things of the world, and trying to please her | 1Cor 7:33 KJV | But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. |
| Woe is me if I do not witness, but even if I do witness, I cannot glory in it | 1Cor 9:16 NASB | For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. |
| Preach the word, adding nothing to it, and do not expect any payment in return | 1Cor 9:18 KJV | What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. |
| Paul made himself a servant to non-Christians in order to win them over to Christ | 1Cor 9:19 NASB | For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more. |
| To save people we have to relate to them, be like them, so they feel comfortable | 1Cor 9:22 NASB | To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. |
| We need to live like the runner runs a race… to win. | 1Cor 9:24 NASB | Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. |
| Keep your body in control or else you will fall | 1Cor 9:27 KJV | But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. |
| His help in temptation, He always provides an escape route | 1Cor 10:13 KJV | There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. |
| We should please all people and offend no one so that they all could be saved | 1Cor 10:32-33 NASB | Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. |
| Factions and heresies have their good points, they show to all those whom God has give His authority | 1Cor 11:19 NASB | For there must also be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may have become evident among you. |
| Taking communion shows Christ’s death until the end of the world | 1Cor 11:26 NASB | For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. |
| We are sick and weak because we eat judgment at communion | 1Cor 11:29-30 NASB | For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly, for this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep |
| God is the one doing everything, so there is a variety of effects, ministries and gifts | 1Cor 12:4-6 NASB | Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the the same Lord. And there are varieties of effects but the same God who works all things in all persons. |
| If one Christian has problems we all feel it | 1Cor 12:26 KJV | And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. |
| If I speak man’s or God’s words without love I am just rattling people ear drums | 1Cor 13:1 NASB | If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
| Without love even knowledge, faith, and everything becomes nothing. | 1Cor 13:2 NASB | And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to removemountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. |
| Charity, and religious persecutions profit us nothing without love | 1Cor 13:3 KJV | And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. |
| Love doesn’t compare or boast, its isn’t puffed up, but is gentle, patient and kind | 1Cor 13:4 NASB | Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant. |
| Love isn’t selfish, seeking revenge, not hot tempered, and it doesn’t act silly | 1Cor 13:5 NASB | does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, |
| Love rejoices in truth, not in unrighteousness | 1Cor 13:6 NASB | does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; |
| Love is tollerant, hopeful and believing | 1Cor 13:7 NASB | bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| The other gifts fade away, but love doesn’t | 1Cor 13:8 NASB | Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. |
| When Christ comes all partial knowledge and works will be done away | 1Cor 13:9-10 NASB | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. |
| When Jesus comes we will no longer do childish things, but we will be men | 1Cor 13:11 KJV | When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
| We are still blinded to certain things but when he comes we will know all. | 1Cor 13:12 KJV | For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. |
| Love is the best, even better than hope and faith | 1Cor 13:13 KJV | And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. |
| Paul’s definition of prophesy, includes wittnessing, reproving and lifting up others | 1Cor 14:3 NASB | But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation, and consolation. |
| Goal of witnessing is worship for God; prophesy causes conviction and disclosure which leads to this | 1Cor 14:24-25 NASB | But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to acocunt by all; the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you. |
| Our sins are forgiven only if Christ is alive today | 1Cor 15:16-17 KJV | For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; [and] ye are yet in your sins. |
| Quit sinning and be used by God to spread the good news | 1Cor 15:34 KJV | Awake to righteourness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. |
| At the second coming real victory over death will come | 1Cor 15:54 KJV | So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory”. |
| The hard part of sin is death but Jesus gives us the victory, thanks to the Lord | 1Cor 15:56-57 NASB | The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| Be steadfast, working for God is not in vain. | 1Cor 15:58 KJV | Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. |
| The reason we suffer is so God can comfort us thus enabling us to comfort others | 2Cor 1:4 NASB | who comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. |
| We have abundant comfort with our many sufferings, these are really Christ’s sufferings | 2Cor 1:5 NASB | For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. |
| In Asia Paul was put under trials that brought him to the limit and he despaired of life | 2Cor 1:8 NASB | For we do not want you to be unaware brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. |
| God puts us through death situations for us to trust Hime, and set our hope on God | 2Cor 1:9-10 NASB | indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves in order that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And he will yet deliver us. |
| We should live holy and sincere lives not in the flesh but by grace; live in the world, to belivers | 2Cor 1:12 NASB | For our proud confidence is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. |
| God gets His knowledge know by His people, and He always bring good to them | 2Cor 2:14 KJV | Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. |
| Among the world and among Christians Paul was a fragrance of Christ. | 2Cor 2:15 NASB | For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. |
| Our witnessing should be sincere from God, in Christ, not like other groups for profit | 2Cor 2:17 NASB | For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. |
| Have confidence that the things that you do are from God not from ourselves | 2Cor 3:4-5 NASB | And such confidence we have through Christ toward God, Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God. |
| Growing in Christ, we are gradually changed by the Spirit | 2Cor 3:18 KJV | But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. |
| Satan has blinded the minds of unbelievers. | 2Cor 4:3-4 KJV | But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. |
| Serve others, serve in Christ’s name. | 2Cor 4:5 KJV | For we preach not ourselves; but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. |
| It’s God who shines from us to declare His glory through Jesus’ image | 2Cor 4:6 NASB | For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. |
| God’s power, and nothing from ourselves, that is why the Spirit was given to us | 2Cor 4:7 NASB | But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves; |
| Our attitude in times of affliction should be hope, for we are not alone | 2Cor 4:8-9 KJV | We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; |
| To have Jesus’ life manifested in our body, we need to continually take on His death | 2Cor 4:10 NASB | always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. |
| We will always be dead so that we can live in Jesus | 2Cor 4:11 KJV | For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. |
| Life comes to our friends when death comes to us | 2Cor 4:12 KJV | So then death worketh in us, but life in you. |
| We can be raised with Jesus by faith, like the Psalmist, after much tribulation | 2Cor 4:13-14 NASB | But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therfore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore also we speak; knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you, |
| Our body is decaying but we are being renewed inside, therefore do not lose heart | 2Cor 4:16 NASB | Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. |
| Invisible, eternal, glorious benefits are generated from short, visible, small aflictions, and problems | 2Cor 4:17-18 NASB | For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. |
| When we have our new bodies, we will be swallowed up in life, for now, for a time, we groan | 2Cor 5:4 NASB | For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. |
| Living by Faith | 2Cor 5:7 NASB | for we walk by faith, not by sight |
| We should only want to be pleasing to Him at all times | 2Cor 5:9 NASB | Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. |
| All people will stand and defend their deeds before Christ | 2Cor 5:10 KJV | For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. |
| One died for all, therefore we are all dead | 2Cor 5:14 KJV | For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: |
| He did die so that we could live to him from now on | 2Cor 5:15 KJV | And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. |
| Christ the center, He changes our lives | 2Cor 5:17 KJV | Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. |
| Reconciliation is our ministry and we are reconciled to Him by Jesus | 2Cor 5:18 KJV | And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. |
| God was in Jesus, and redeemed the world, and gave us His word | 2Cor 5:19 KJV | Which is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. |
| We witness to people and convince them in the place of Christ. | 2Cor 5:20 KJV | Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. |
| Christ made us into God’s righteousness by becoming sin for us | 2Cor 5:21 KJV | For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. |
| Rejoice when sorroful, make others rich when we are poor | 2Cor 6:10 NASB | As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things. |
| How can light and darkness live together, especially in marriage | 2Cor 6:14 KJV | Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hat light with darkness? |
| We need to live in the world, not be a part of it, be clean and separate | 2Cor 6:17 NASB | Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; and I will welcome you.” |
| Live in holiness, in the fear of the Lord and remove every bad thing from the flesh and spirit. | 2Cor 7:1 NASB | Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. |
| Men gave themselves to their spiritual father for training | 2Cor 8:5 KJV | And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. |
| Jesus’ sacrifice, he became poor for us | 2Cor 8:9 KJV | For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. |
| We should live honorably not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of men | 2Cor 8:21 NASB | For we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. |
| Give generously, God likes those who give happily | 2Cor 9:6-7 KJV | But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. |
| When we give, God supplies our needs plus extra to give and help others | 2Cor 9:8 NASB | And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; |
| God will supply seed and food and will multiply them and increase our harvest | 2Cor 9:10 NASB | Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; |
| We can destroy fortresses with the Spirit’s powerful weapons, not if we use the flesh | 2Cor 10:3-4 NASB | For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. |
| Every thought should be brought under Christ’s control. | 2Cor 10:5 NASB | We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. |
| Don’t measure yourself to others but only to God’s standards for us | 2Cor 10:13 KJV | But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. |
| As our fruit grows, our sphere is enlarged therefore we shouldn’t boast in other’s labors | 2Cor 10:15 NASB | not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we shall be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you. |
| Be careful lest Satan take you away from Christ’s simplicity | 2Cor 11:3 KJV | But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. |
| Christ’s power is heightened in our weaknesses | 2Cor 12:9 KJV | And he said unto me, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. |
| Be content with our problems and weakness for when I am weak I am strong | 2Cor 12:10 NASB | Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. |
| Love and spend yourself even though you get nothing in return. | 2Cor 12:15 KJV | And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. |
| Who are we working for God or men? | Gal 1:10 KJV | For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. |
| We didn’t get the gospel from men but it was revealed by Christ | Gal 1:11-12 KJV | But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after men. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. |
| No one can be justified by the works of the Law, only through faith in Jesus | Gal 2:16 NASB | nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified. |
| If we are found sinners, it is not Christ’s fault but ours | Gal 2:17-18 KJV | But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. |
| Live to God because in the Law we are dead | Gal 2:19 KJV | For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. |
| Christ the center, live by faith | Gal 2:20 KJV | I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. |
| Not by works, otherwise Christ died for not | Gal 2:21 KJV | I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. |
| When we really know about Christ what happens to us that we fall | Gal 3:1 KJV | O foolish Galations, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? |
| We are saved by faith, we must be sanctified by faith as well | Gal 3:2-3 KJV | This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? |
| We are sons of Abraham if we are of faith, believing God, obtaining righteousness | Gal 3:6-7 NASB | Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith that are sons of Abraham. |
| Christ was a curse for us to free us | Gal 3:13 KJV | Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: |
| We are heirs of God; no longer servants by sons | Gal 4:6-7 KJV | And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. |
| Don’t turn again to sin, where you will find slavery | Gal 4:9 KJV | But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? |
| Paul had birth pains until his converts were Christ-like | Gal 4:19 KJV | My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, |
| Since Jesus set us free we should live free and not be enslaved to anything. | Gal 5:1 NASB | It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. |
| Faith as it works through love is far more meaningful that the law | Gal 5:6 KJV | For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. |
| Called to freedom, don’t use it for a while, but always | Gal 5:13 KJV | For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. |
| If we live according to the Spirit we won’t do the desires of our old nature | Gal 5:16 NASB | But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. |
| We can’t do the things we want because the flesh and spirit oppose and are set against one another. | Gal 5:17 NASB | For the flesh sets it desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. |
| Fruit of the Spirit, takes away the law | Gal 5:22-23 KJV | But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. |
| Spiritual people exhort brothers who are in sin with care, so that you yourself do not fall as well | Gal 6:1 NAS | Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted. |
| Serve one another in their burden’s and fulfill the law | Gal 6:2 KJV | Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. |
| Be humble and not deceived, then we will be happy in ourselves | Gal 6:3-4 KJV | For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. |
| We should share every thing with our teachers | Gal 6:5-6 NASB | For each one shall bear his own load. And let the one who is taught the word share all good things with him whoteaches. |
| Christ before flesh, what we do is what we get | Gal 6:7 KJV | Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. |
| Christ before flesh, sow to the Spirit | Gal 6:8 KJV | For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. |
| Good Works, We need to do them to all people and especially to brothers | Gal 6:9-10 KJV | And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. |
| We shouldn’t glory in anything except the cross, and be dead to the world | Gal 6:14 KJV | But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. |
| Peace and mercy are yours by remembering and living as a new creation and not by the law | Gal 6:15-16 NASB | For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. |
| Jesus does something within and no man can trouble us | Gal 6:17 KJV | From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. |
| We need Jesus’ gracious help in our innermost being | Gal 6:18 NASB | The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen. |
| God gave us everything, all blessing in Christ, Praise Him | Eph 1:3 NASB | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ |
| We were chosen to be holy and blameless before the world began | Eph 1:4 NASB | just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love |
| God is the one that called us to be His adopted sons | Eph 1:5 NASB | [In love] He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, |
| God’s election of the beloved is meant to bring praise to His glory | Eph 1:6 NASB | to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the beloved. |
| In His wisdom He lavished grace upon us through redemption in His blood | Eph 1:7-8 NASB | In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight |
| God is kind and let us know the mystery of His will, in Christ | Eph 1:9 NASB | He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him |
| Everything centers around Jesus, things physical and things spiritual. | Eph 1:10 NASB | with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. In Him |
| All things work for good according to God’s will and purpose | Eph 1:11 KJV | In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: |
| We trusted in Christ first, therefore, we should be a glory to Him | Eph 1:12 KJV | That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. |
| After we believe we are filled with God’s Spirit. | Eph 1:13 KJV | In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, |
| The Spirit is our guarantee of salvation until it comes | Eph 1:14 KJV | Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. |
| When we hear of people’s faith and love we should be thankful and pray for them. | Eph 1:15-16 NASB | For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you, and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers. |
| Paul’s prayer included a request that the Ephesians would understand the Word and God Himself | Eph 1:17 KJV | That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: |
| Three things we need to know about our relationship with Jesus, for this we need sight | Eph 1:18-19 NASB | I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. |
| God caused Christ’s strength to work for us when He raised Him and seated Him at His right hand | Eph 1:19-20 NASB | These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places. |
| Jesus reigns above all physical and spiritual powers in the present day and for all time. | Eph 1:21 NASB | far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come. |
| God made Jesus head of the church and put everything under him. We are His fulness. | Eph 1:22-23 NASB | And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills all in all. |
| God made us alive who were dead | Eph 2:1 KJV | And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; |
| The same thing that controls wrathful people used to control us as well | Eph 2:2 KJV | Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: |
| We all used to live under the wrath of our lifestyles which were the lusts and desires of our mind and body | Eph 2:3 NASB | Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. |
| God made us alive when we were sinners showing His love for us | Eph 2:4-5 KJV | But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love where-with he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) |
| Salvation not by works, it is a gift. | Eph 2:8-9 KJV | For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. |
| Walking in good works is what God ordained us to, created in Jesus Christ. | Eph 2:10 KJV | For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. |
| In the old days we were in the world without God and had no hope, separated from the promises | Eph 2:12 NASB | remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. |
| We are near to God and assured of it by the blood of Christ | Eph 2:13 NASB | But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. |
| Jesus made God and I to be one, and broke down the wall between us | Eph 2:14 KJV | For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; |
| Humility toward the church, we all came in the same way, and we all have access by the same Spirit | Eph 2:17-18 NASB | And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. |
| All Christians grow and fit together into one structure | Eph 2:21 KJV | In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: |
| We are going to be a dwelling place for God Himself, in our Spirit | Eph 2:22 NASB | in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. |
| Paul made a steward of God’s grace for us. | Eph 3:1-2 NASB | For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles – if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you. |
| Reflecting on Paul’s understanding of the mystery will explain other aspects as we read. | Eph 3:3-4 NASB | that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. And by referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, |
| The mystery that Gentiles are included was not seen by people before, but was revealed by the Spirit. | Eph 3:5-6 NASB | which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, |
| Paul’s humility, he was given a great ministry and yet he still considered himself least of all | Eph 3:7-8 KJV | Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; |
| We want men to see the mystery revealed by Christ | Eph 3:9 KJV | And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: |
| We show God’s wisdom to Satan when we witness and bring to light the stewardship of the mystery | Eph 3:10 NASB | in order that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in heavenly places. |
| We are made rich and strong by having His Spirit in us | Eph 3:16 KJV | That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; |
| Like all the rest of the Christians, we should know love completely. | Eph 3:17-18 KJV | That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth and height; |
| To know Christ’s love which is greater than all and to be filled with God | Eph 3:19 KJV | And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. |
| God is able to do far more abundantly than we think | Eph 3:20 KJV | Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh is us, |
| Walk worthy of the jobs we have when we are called to the Lord | Eph 4:1 KJV | I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, |
| Live up to your calling by showing love, unity, peace, humility, and patience | Eph 4:2-3 NASB | with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. |
| Dwelling in us is God, the only God, just like there is only one baptism, one faith, hope and body | Eph 4:4-6 NASB | There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. |
| The body works until all are mature, and have grown to their full potential in Christ | Eph 4:13 NASB | until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. |
| Be stable, not carried and thrown about like waves on the many winds of doctrine. | Eph 4:14 NASB | As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; |
| Grow up into Christ in all areas, especially by saying the right things | Eph 4:15 NASB | but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, |
| All joints and parts of the body work properly, and build up the body, making it grow | Eph 4:16 NASB | from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. |
| We need to be transformed in the spirit of our mind, and not walk like used to | Eph 4:22-23 NASB | that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind |
| Speak only grace, only those things that are good for edifying your hearers | Eph 4:29 KJV | Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. |
| God has sealed us with his Spirit to the end, and don’t make Him sad | Eph 4:30 KJV | And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. |
| Attitude, God’s example, forgiving | Eph 4:31-32 KJV | Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted , forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. |
| Love, give up your own desires, sacrifice yourself like Jesus did for us | Eph 5:1-2 KJV | Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. |
| Purity, let nothing bad be said about you | Eph 5:3 KJV | But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints; |
| Flee filthiness and bad speaking, but rather give thanks to God | Eph 5:4 KJV | Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. |
| Being in Christ means that we are light, we should live like it | Eph 5:7-8 NASB | Therefore do not be partakers with them; for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light |
| Christ is the one shining through us to expose sin and make other’s lives visible | Eph 5:13-14 NASB | But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says, “Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” |
| Use your time wisely and live carefully | Eph 5:15-16 KJV | See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. |
| Know what God wants and don’t be drunk but be filled with the Spirit | Eph 5:17-18 KJV | Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; |
| Submit yourselves to each other, and be thankful | Eph 5:20-21 NASB | always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. |
| Men’s role in marriage is like Christ’s role in the church | Eph 5:25-26 KJV | Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, |
| Husbands should work for their wives to make them perfect, holy and blameless | Eph 5:27 NASB | that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless. |
| Love wives like we love our own bodies | Eph 5:28-29 KJV | So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: |
| Bring up children in the nourishment and correction of the Lord | Eph 6:4 KJV | And, ye father, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. |
| Give your all to our fleshly masters like serving Christ, wholely. | Eph 6:5 NASB | Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; |
| God’s will is that we work heartily not just to be seen but as slaves of Christ. | Eph 6:6 NASB | not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. |
| We need His armor and strength to withstand Satan’s devices. | Eph 6:10-11 NASB | Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. |
| We aren’t going against bad me but against terrible evil forces. | Eph 6:12 KJV | For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. |
| Take up all of God’s defences | Eph 6:13 KJV | Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. |
| Put the truth in your heart and apply it, resulting in righteousness. Prepare for wittnessing and stand firm. | Eph 6:14-15 NASB | Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. |
| the last pieces of armor: faith, salvation and the word of God… Put them on. | Eph 6:16-17 NASB | in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming missiles of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. |
| Pray with perseverance, petition and alertness after you’ve put on the armor. | Eph 6:18 NASB | With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints. |
| we need to pray and get people praying for us to be bold in our declaring the gospel | Eph 6:19 NASB | and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, |
| God will continue working in us until the end of the world. | Phil 1:6 KJV | Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ; |
| Paul knew these people were saved because he loved them and he knew their actions | Phil 1:7 NASB | For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are partakers of grace with me. |
| Paul longed for the Philippians with the actual love Jesus had | Phil 1:8 NASB | For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. |
| Agape love needs to increase in knowledge so that we can be real, and live beyond reproach | Phil 1:9-10 NASB | And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; |
| Problems, sufferings, imprisonments all workout for the furtherance of the gospel | Phil 1:12-13 NASB | Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel, so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else. |
| We need to be happy that the gospel is getting out no matter what the reason | Phil 1:18 NASB | What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice, yes, and I will rejoice |
| Christ the Center – He is honored by life or death | Phil 1:20-21 RSV | it is my eager expectation and hope that I shall not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. |
| Going to heaven with Christ is good, but staying here is also important to the growth of the kingdom | Phil 1:23-24 NASB | But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. |
| Stand firm, in one mind, working together with our brothers for the faith of the gospel | Phil 1:27 NASB | Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; |
| Satan should not surprise us for thus we prove his distruction. | Phil 1:28 NASB | in no way alarmed by your opponents – which is a sign of destruction for them, but of salvation for you, and that too, from God. |
| Given the chance to suffer as well as to believe. | Phil 1:29-30 NASB | For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, experiencing the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me. |
| We should be intent on concentrating on the things of Christ: love, unity, purpose | Phil 2:1-2 NASB | If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. |
| Humility, we should look at everybody else first and ourselves as second | Phil 2:3-4 KJV | Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. |
| Jesus’ Divinity was something He didn’t care to hold on to. | Phil 2:5-6 NASB | Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped. |
| Jesus was God taking on the person of a servant and a man. | Phil 2:7 KJV | But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: |
| Christ obedience unto death even man’s death – what humility | Phil 2:8 KJV | And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. |
| Jesus was exalted, after he humbled Himself, to a position higher that any other positon | Phil 2:9-10 NASB | Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. |
| God does His will and pleasure while working in us | Phil 2:13 KJV | For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. |
| Be Perfect, even while in a bad world | Phil 2:14-15 KJV | Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. |
| Word. To rejoice having worked for good. | Phil 2:16 KJV | Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. |
| Rejoice and share joy always even when we are being used up and poured out. | Phil 2:17 NASB | But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all. |
| Christ is concerned for people and their growth, we should be too, like Timothy | Phil 2:20-21 NASB | For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. |
| Timothy was refined by tribulations, which gave him proven character. He serve heartly like a son | Phil 2:22 NASB | But you know of his proven worth that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father. |
| Don’t put confidence in the flesh just be happy in Christ | Phil 3:3 KJV | For we are the circumsion, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. |
| Give up all for Christ. Count them as trash to win Him. | Phil 3:8 KJV | Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. |
| Righteousness (the true kind) is by faith, not by anything of our own doing. | Phil 3:9 KJV | And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: |
| Know Christ even to the point of suffering and dying. | Phil 3:10 KJV | That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; |
| Paul wanted to reach the way of life typified in the resurrection. | Phil 3:11 NASB | in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. |
| Follow Christ to grasp the things he called us to grasp. | Phil 3:12 KJV | Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. |
| Haven’t yet made it but I’m willing to forget whats behind. | Phil 3:13 KJV | Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, |
| Strive for the gifts God gives us in Jesus. | Phil 3:14 KJV | I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. |
| Walk and live by the things we have already attained to | Phil 3:16 KJV | Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. |
| We should be following people who live like Paul and who walk according to his pattern. | Phil 3:17 NASB | Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. |
| God subjected all things to Jesus, even us, so we can become like Him, by His power | Phil 3:21 NASB | who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. |
| Paul exhorted the Philippians to stand firm, for they were his crown and he longed for them | Phil 4:1 NASB | Therefore, my beloved brethren whom I long to see, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord my beloved. |
| Let all people see how Christ has changed your life and rejoice | Phil 4:4-5 KJV | Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. |
| Prayer. He will give us His Peace | Phil 4:6-7 KJV | Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. |
| If anything is worth it, think on Godly things. | Phil 4:8 NASB | Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. |
| Paul told the Philippians to follow his teaching, what he said, gave and had shown to them. | Phil 4:9 NASB | The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you. |
| Be content with the way we are and situations we are in. | Phil 4:11 KJV | Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. |
| Life is a balance of both satisfactions and needs | Phil 4:12 KJV | I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. |
| Through Christ’s strength we can do anything | Phil 4:13 KJV | I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. |
| When asking others to give, don’t seek the money, but the profit it brings to them. | Phil 4:17 NASB | Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account. |
| God’s provision is according to His glory | Phil 4:19 KJV | But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. |
| His Will – Knowledge of it. | Col 1:9 KJV | For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; |
| Grow in knowledge and be fruitful and worthy if you know His will. | Col 1:10 KJV | That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; |
| To attain stedfastness and patience we need the Spirit’s power. | Col 1:11-12 NASB | Strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. |
| Christ, first born from the dead and head should have preeminence | Col 1:18 KJV | And he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first born from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. |
| All fulness is in Jesus because God wanted it that way. | Col 1:19 NASB | For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fulness to dwell in Him. |
| God brings everything unto Himself by the blood of Christ’s cross. | Col 1:20 KJV | And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. |
| Be happy when you suffer because you are making Christ’s sufferings complete | Col 1:24 NASB | Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body (which is the church) in filling up that which is lacking in Christ’s afflictions |
| God was to proclaim the mystery, Christ in us, the hope of glory. | Col 1:27 NASB | To whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. |
| Preach and teach in order to make men perfect in Jesus | Col 1:28 KJV | Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. |
| Striving with the right attitude according to His power within us. | Col 1:29 NASB | And for this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightly works within me. |
| Knowing the mystery of God is full assurance and source of treasures | Col 2:2-3 KJV | That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowlegement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. |
| Walk in the Lord and be rooted in the faith | Col 2:6-7 KJV | As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. |
| Don’t be caught in the world following men and not Christ | Col 2:8 KJV | Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. |
| We are complete in Christ. | Col 2:9-10 KJV | For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. |
| Raised up with Christ by faith in God’s hand working. | Col 2:12 NASB | having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. |
| Jesus took away the punishment for sin onto His cross. | Col 2:14 KJV | Blotting out the handwritting of the ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; |
| Don’t go around saying “don’t do this or that” – that is living in the world. | Col 2:20-21 NASB | If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” |
| We are dead and live with Christ, therefore don’t love the world | Col 3:2-3 KJV | Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. |
| Think of our members as dead when it comes to the sins of the flesh. | Col 3:5 NASB | Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. |
| renewed to a true knowledge like God; this is what is happening to our new self. | Col 3:9-10 NASB | Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him |
| love leads to perfection; be ruled by peace, this is our purpose. | Col 3:14-15 KJV | And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. |
| Word – teaching leads to joy and song | Col 3:16 KJV | Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. |
| Children lose heart when fathers get them frustrated, Don’t do it. | Col 3:21 NASB | Fathers, do not exasperate your children, that they may not lose heart. |
| Do everything as to the Lord, because we serve Him | Col 3:23-24 KJV | And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. |
| God is the one who gives us the opportunity to witness; therefore we need to pray for it and for courage. | Col 4:3-4 NASB | praying at the same time for us as well, that God may open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned in order that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak. |
| We need to capitalize on every opportunity with non-Christians; be wise. | Col 4:5 NASB | Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. |
| We should know how to answer everyone with grace and seasonings (the gospel) | Col 4:6 NASB | Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned, as it were, with salt, so that you may know how you should respond to each person. |
| We need to labor earnestly in prayer for people so they become perfect and assured in Gods will | Col 4:12 NASB | Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. |
| Be a good example in order for the gospel to have effectiveness | 1Thes 1:5 KJV | For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. |
| Multiplication, Christ likeness spreads by being examples and being imitated. | 1Thes 1:6-7 KJV | You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. |
| We were approved by God to have the gospel and so we speak, to please Him | 1Thes 2:4 NASB | but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who examines our hearts. |
| Treat new Christians as a young mother and be gentle | 1Thes 2:7 KJV | But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: |
| Learn not only to wittness but to give your life to men | 1Thes 2:8 KJV | So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. |
| We should work so we can preach the Gospel without being a burden. | 1Thes 2:9 NASB | For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. |
| Act perfect in front of believers for God knows and so do they. | 1Thes 2:10 NASB | You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; |
| We all should be good and live that way and teach this to others as fathers would | 1Thes 2:11-12 KJV | As ye know how we exorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. |
| People look at our word as God’s word. We should always be thankful, and faithful. | 1Thes 2:13 NASB | And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. |
| People look at our word as God’s word. We should always be thankful and faithful. | 1Thes 2:13 NASB | And for this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God’s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. |
| The people we help to know Jesus are our joy and crowns at the end. | 1Thes 2:19-20 KJV | For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy. |
| Paul continually told the people that they all must suffer and go through hard times. | 1Thes 3:4 NASB | For indeed when we were with you, we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction; and so it came to pass, as you know. |
| When our children stand firm, we really live, and are comforted in afflictions. | 1Thes 3:7-8 NASB | for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord. |
| Walk in the way we showed you of how to please God. | 1Thes 4:1 KJV | Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. |
| be alert and not drunk and don’t sleep for we are the children of the day. | 1Thes 5:6-7 KJV | Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. |
| We have to build up each other with encouragement, like we’re already doing. | 1Thes 5:11 NASB | Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, just as you also are doing. |
| We should highly esteem and appreciate those who are our spiritual leaders. | 1Thes 5:12-13 NASB | But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction, and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another. |
| Be patient, help those who need it and admonish and encorage them also. | 1Thes 5:14 NASB | And we urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all men. |
| Follow the good path and stop getting even for wrong deeds of others. | 1Thes 5:15 KJV | see that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. |
| Rejoice, pray and give thanks for it is God’s will | 1Thes 5:16-18 KJV | Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. |
| God will make you a better Christian for he is faithful | 1Thes 5:24 KJV | Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. |
| When unbelievers die they aren’t able to be with Christ | 2Thes 1:9 KJV | Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; |
| Paul prayed that the Thessalonians would have all desires for goodness and works of faith fulfilled | 2Thes 1:11 NASB | To this end also we pray for you always that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power; |
| The end is near. Don’t be wavery or troubled by anything. | 2Thes 2:2 KJV | That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. |
| People should ask God that the word would increase and be glorified here like other places | 2Thes 3:1 NASB | Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you; |
| If we are faithful, Jesus will put us into service and strengthen us. | 1Tim 1:12 NASB | I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service; |
| We should be thankful and pray for all men | 1Tim 2:1 KJV | I exort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men. |
| Jesus is the only way, told about in due season | 1Tim 2:5-6 KJV | For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. |
| If we want to manage the church of God, we have to start with our own household | 1Tim 3:4-5 NASB | He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?); |
| We will be nourished by the word when we help and exhort others in their walk with God | 1Tim 4:6 NASB | In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following. |
| Don’t even associate with old tales but concentrate on godliness | 1Tim 4:7 NASB | But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; |
| Godliness brings both abundant and eternal life | 1Tim 4:8 KJV | For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. |
| Our progress is evident when we are absorbed in the ministry and sacrificing for it | 1Tim 4:15 NASB | Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident to all. |
| If we want to insure the salvation of those whom we teach we need good doctrine and lives | 1Tim 4:16 NASB | Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things; for as you do this you will insure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you. |
| Don’t rebuke elders, but appeal to them in purity; be humble. | 1Tim 5:1-2 NASB | Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father, to the younger men as brothers, the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, in all purity. |
| Originally the elders who taught and preached were to receive honor and wages. | 1Tim 5:17-18 NASB | Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” |
| We need contentment, only then does godliness give us great increase | 1Tim 6:6 NASB | But godliness actually is a means of great gain, when accompanied by contentment. |
| Be content with needs for what did we have at birth | 1Tim 6:7-8 KJV | For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us therewith content. |
| The man of God pursues godly qualities and runs away from false doctrine. | 1Tim 6:11 NASB | But flee from these things, you man of God; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. |
| Endure, fight and obtain eternal life. That is what we are called to. | 1Tim 6:12 KJV | Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. |
| Pray night and day, with a spotless conscience and be like the men of the old testament | 2Tim 1:3 NASB | I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day, |
| We need to keep the fire going under us to make us use our gifts and keep it alive | 2Tim 1:6 NASB | And for this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. |
| God gave us a sure sound mind because of His Spirit | 2Tim 1:7 KJV | For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. |
| When we suffer do so according to God’s power and don’t be ashamed. | 2Tim 1:8 NASB | Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me His prisoner; but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, |
| God’s plan, set up from all eternity (purpose, grace and not works). | 2Tim 1:9 NASB | who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, |
| Jesus abolished death and gave us life and immortality | 2Tim 1:10 NASB | but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, |
| God is able to guard what we entrust to him, and because we know this, we can suffer without shame. | 2Tim 1:12 NASB | For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. |
| We should try to keep the same message of Paul’s and do not let it be changed | 2Tim 1:13 NASB | Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. |
| It is the Holy Spirit which enables us to guard the gospel given to us. | 2Tim 1:14 NASB | Guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. |
| Onesiphorus, eager for training, was not ashamed, but was refreshing to Paul | 2Tim 1:16-17 NASB | The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains; but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me, and found me — |
| Our strength should be in dependence upon God for all things. | 2Tim 2:1 NASB | You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. |
| We should teach men who are able to teach others. | 2Tim 2:2 KJV | And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able teach others also. |
| Discipline is necessary just as if we were soldiers | 2Tim 2:3-4 KJV | Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. |
| Press on like anyone wanting to master something – even farming | 2Tim 2:5-6 KJV | And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. |
| We need to know the word so we will be effective even in jail and in suffering | 2Tim 2:8-9 NASB | Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel, for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned. |
| We died and live with Him – we should endure sufferings so God’s chosen will get salvation. | 2Tim 2:10-11 NASB | For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. It is a trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him |
| Assurance of Salvation – Christ will always remain faithful | 2Tim 2:12-13 KJV | If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us. If we believe not, he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. |
| Study the word | 2Tim 2:15 KJV | Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of thruth. |
| God know us. This is the firm foundation of God. We also need to be holy. | 2Tim 2:19 NASB | Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord abstain from wickedness.” |
| Some vessels are made out of good stuff some aren’t, some for good uses, some to bad | 2Tim 2:20 NASB | Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and of earthenware, and some to honor and some to dishonor. |
| Clean ourselves and we will become useful for honor. | 2Tim 2:21 KJV | If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. |
| Follow those with a pure heart and seek their fruit, not our own lusts. | 2Tim 2:22 KJV | Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. |
| Try to keep away from stupid questions | 2Tim 2:23 KJV | But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. |
| Patience and meekness, apt to teach. | 2Tim 2:24-25 KJV | And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. |
| People become selfish and unloving at the end. Therefore, we will really have hard times. | 2Tim 3:1-2 NASB | But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, |
| Timothy followed Paul’s way of life, even to enduring, suffering and waiting for God’s deliverance. | 2Tim 3:10-11 NASB | But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, Persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me! |
| If you’re to be sanctified, you will be persecuted. | 2Tim 3:12 NASB | And indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. |
| Considering who we learn things from (God) we need to continue in them earnestly | 2Tim 3:14 NASB | You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them; |
| The Bible gives us the needed wisdom for salvation, we should teach it. | 2Tim 3:15 NASB | and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. |
| Word – Inspired and good | 2Tim 3:16 KJV | All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: |
| Word – Helps us to do good | 2Tim 3:17 KJV | That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. |
| Wittness and have the word at all times – Help people to grow | 2Tim 4:2 KJV | Preach the word; be instant in season, and out of season; reprove rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. |
| People get teachers around them to say exactly what they want to hear, myths not truth. | 2Tim 4:3-4 NASB | For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths. |
| Evangelize and have fruit from our ministry | 2Tim 4:5 KJV | But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. |
| Paul ran well, and kept the faith and he was poured out, we too should be able to say this | 2Tim 4:6-7 NASB | For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; |
| We all have our rewards, all we have to do is to love His coming. | 2Tim 4:8 KJV | Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. |
| Paul had men around him, men of service. Then he sent them to serve elsewhere. | 2Tim 4:11-12 NASB | Only Luke is with me. Pick up Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service. But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. |
| God strengthens us so we can preach the gospel, he also delivers us from trouble | 2Tim 4:17 NASB | But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me, in order that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the lion’s mouth. |
| God will deliver us from persecutions and get us to His kingdom without harm. | 2Tim 4:18 NASB | The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. |
| Elders should know the Bible so they can exhort and refute contradictors | Titus 1:9 NASB | holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. |
| If women don’t fulfill God’s will for their part of marriage, the word will be dishonored | Titus 2:4-5 NASB | that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be dishonored. |
| Don’t steal, be of good faith, be obedient to our employers like slaves to their masters | Titus 2:9-10 NASB | Urge bondslaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith that they may adorn the doctrine of God our savior, in every respect. |
| Christ made us into an odd people zealous of good works. | Titus 2:14 KJV | Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. |
| Salvation is not by works, but by washing and renewing. | Titus 3:5 KJV | Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. |
| Old way – prophets. New way – Jesus. God speaks | Heb 1:1-2 KJV | God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. |
| Jesus expressed his image, cleanse our sins and then went to God’s right hand. | Heb 1:3 KJV | Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; |
| Jesus’ thrown is forever and the scepter of His Kingdom is righteousness, says God. | Heb 1:8 NASB | But of the Son He says, “Thy Throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the septer of His Kingdom”. |
| Pay the most attention to that which we know lest we fall. | Heb 2:1 KJV | Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. |
| If the law is true & the wages of sin is death we cannot escape! | Heb 2:2 KJV | For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; |
| There is no escape if we don’t take Christ’s salvation | Heb 2:3 KJV | How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; |
| Jesus was to experience death for every man | Heb 2:9 KJV | But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower that the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. |
| God wants us to share His holiness, that is why He disciplines like a father. | Heb 2:10 NASB | For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. |
| God caused Jesus to suffer, so that the starter of salvation may be perfect | Heb 2:10 NASB | For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. |
| Fear of death and the Devil were removed by Jesus becoming flesh and dying. | Heb 2:14-15 NASB | Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. |
| His help in temptation, because He suffered | Heb 2:18 KJV | For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. |
| Christ’s help in Temptation | Heb 2:18 KJV | For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. |
| Help each other, so that we don’t become hardened by sin and fall away. | Heb 3:12-13 NASB | Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, in falling away from the living God. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. |
| Strive for the promise of rest, lest we don’t make it. | Heb 4:1 KJV | Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. |
| Christian’s can have rest (Sabbath) since Joshua did not give it to Israel. | Heb 4:8-9 NASB | For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. |
| Abide in Christ (rest) and God does the work. | Heb 4:10 KJV | For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. |
| Don’t fall like Israel did but work to be living in God. | Heb 4:11 KJV | Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest anyman fall after the same example of unbelief. |
| Word | Heb 4:12 KJV | For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. |
| Before God we are naked and there is nothing hidden. | Heb 4:13 KJV | Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. |
| Jesus’ humanity – Just like us but without sin. | Heb 4:15 KJV | For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. |
| To get help in our troubles go to God boldly. | Heb 4:16 KJV | Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. |
| Jesus was beset with weaknesses like us, therefore He can deal gently with us. | Heb 5:1-2 NASB | For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; |
| We learn obedience through suffering, just like Jesus did. | Heb 5:8 KJV | Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; |
| Be familiar with the Word and develop habits around it, then are we mature. | Heb 5:13-14 NASB | For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. |
| Be diligent, not lazy if we want to obtain the promises | Heb 6:11-12 KJV | And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end; That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. |
| We have hope, hope of sure entry to His presence, hope that anchors our soul | Heb 6:19 NASB | This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, |
| Jesus was the only priest which was sinless and forever on duty. | Heb 7:28 KJV | For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. |
| There has to be a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin. | Heb 9:22 KJV | And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. |
| Judgement – all will be judged. | Heb 9:27 KJV | And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: |
| Fellowship – show each other their mistakes | Heb 10:24-25 KJV | And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. |
| We need endurance to gain the promises when we obey | Heb 10:36 NASB | For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. |
| Faith – Definition | Heb 11:1 KJV | Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. |
| Enoch was pleasing to God, this is shown by his faith, in that God took him | Heb 11:5 NASB | By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God. |
| Faith – we must believe He is | Heb 11:6 KJV | But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. |
| Abraham went out and didn’t know where he was going – what faith! | Heb 11:8 KJV | By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. |
| Abraham looked for a city with foundations, God’s city and he lived by faith as an alien in the land. | Heb 11:9-10 NASB | By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. |
| Abraham, as good as dead, and yet God made his descendants greater that the sand in number | Heb 11:12 NASB | therefore, also, there was born of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. |
| The patriarchs looked forward in time with faith and received Christ the same way we do. | Heb 11:13-14 AWK | All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. |
| Lay aside the problems that hold us back and run the race. | Heb 12:1 KJV | Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of wittnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, |
| Jesus started and perfects our faith by enduring the cross and keep looking to Him. | Heb 12:2 NASB | fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. |
| Be steadfast – His steadfastness give us an example | Heb 12:3 KJV | For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. |
| God chastens all His sons and if we endure, he treats us like that. | Heb 12:7 KJV | If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? |
| Peaceful righteous fruit comes from chastenings which seem hard. | Heb 12:11 KJV | Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. |
| If we have bitterness, it will transmit and may defile others. Seek the grace of God. | Heb 12:15 NASB | See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; |
| Show love to everyone or else one might be an angel. | Heb 13:1-2 KJV | Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. |
| Christ before the flesh – Be content, He is here | Heb 13:5 KJV | Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. |
| We should imitate our spiritual leaders’ faith, looking at their way of life. | Heb 13:7 NASB | Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the outcome of their way of life, imitate their faith. |
| Jesus is the same always | Heb 13:8 KJV | Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. |
| Obey our spiritual leaders, for they must give account. | Heb 13:17 KJV | Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. |
| God is working in us to equip us to do His will, to be pleasing to Him, through Jesus | Heb 13:20-21 NASB | Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. |
| Greetings from Jesus’ brother who considers himself as just a slave | James 1:1 NASB | James a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad, greetings. |
| Be happy in tribulations because they work patience into our lives. | James 1:2-3 KJV | My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. |
| Cheerfully endure and continue in tribulation to let it have its perfect result, maturity. | James 1:4 NASB | And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. |
| If you want to gain wisdom ask God and He gives it to you. | James 1:5 KJV | If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. |
| Ask God without any doubts and don’t be tossed like the waves. | James 1:6 NASB | But let him ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. |
| A man without faith can get anything from God and is completely unstable. | James 1:7-8 NASB | For let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. |
| rich should glory n humiliation and humbly glory in the position we have – we all pass away. | James 1:9-10 NASB | But let the brother of humble circumstances glory in his high position; and let the rich man glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. |
| Materialism – It all passes away. | James 1:11 KJV | For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. |
| We get the crown of life for enduring under our trials. | James 1:12 NASB | Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him. |
| It is not God that tempts us. | James 1:13 KJV | Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: |
| Death from sin. Sin from lusts. This is from temptation by our own lusts. | James 1:14-15 KJV | But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. |
| There is not even a shadow of change with God, and everything good is from Him | James 1:16-17 NASB | Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow. |
| It is God who caused us to become Christians by His word and will. | James 1:18 NASB | In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be, as it were, the first fruits among His creatures. |
| Anger is not the answer but listening and being quiet is. | James 1:19-20 KJV | Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. |
| Throw out sin and do the things spoken of in the Bible and be not deceived | James 1:21-22 KJV | Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves. |
| Do it or lose it principle – like a man looking in a mirror so is the word. | James 1:23-24 NASB | For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. |
| Success is based on looking into the word, living by it and doing what it says. | James 1:25 NASB | But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does. |
| Keep your tongue under control, or else your religion is in vain. | James 1:26 KJV | If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. |
| Don’t let the world stain you. Help widows and orphans. This is perfect religion. | James 1:27 NASB | This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. |
| We should rely on our works to indicate our faith and not just say we have faith. | James 2:17-18 NASB | Even so faith, if it has no works, it dead, being by itself. But someone may well say, “You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” |
| Angels (Satan) have faith and shudder; we need to combine our faith with works. | James 2:19-20 NASB | You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? |
| Control the tongue and we are able to control the body also | James 3:2 KJV | For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. |
| Large things like horses and ships are controlled by small things, bit and rudders. | James 3:3-4 NASB | Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, we direct their entire body as well. Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder, wherever the inclination of the pilot desires. |
| Our tongue is fired up by hell, and it’s the thing that governs our lives, defiles us and is sin. | James 3:6 NASB | And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. |
| We shouln’t use our tongues the way we do, blessing God and cursing men. | James 3:9-10 NASB | With it we bless our Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. |
| Good words and bad words shouldn’t come from my mouth. It’s contrary to all nature. | James 3:11-12 NASB | Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water produce fresh. |
| We can only show others our progress by our good behavior and gentle wisdom, not by tongue. | James 3:13 NASB | Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. |
| Controlling our tongue -> peace -> fruit | James 3:18 KJV | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. |
| We need to ask for what we want and not fight, quarrel and murder. | James 4:2 NASB | You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. |
| Prayer is not answered because you pray for lusts. | James 4:3 KJV | Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. |
| God is enemies with the world and to be friends with it is to be God’s enemy. | James 4:4 NASB | You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. |
| Resist Satan, submit to God, He will give us a greater grace, and the devil will glee | James 4:6-7 NASB | But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. |
| Get things straight, confess sin, get close to God and He will get close to you. | James 4:8 NASB | Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you doubleminded. |
| There is no reincarnation, so we surely don’t know what’s coming. | James 4:14 KJV | Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. |
| Like the farmer who waits for all the rain to come, we too need patience. | James 5:7 NASB | Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. |
| We shouldn’t make oaths but when we say yes, we should follow through on it. | James 5:12 NASB | But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but let your yes be yes, and your no, no; so that you may not fall under judgement. |
| Pray, for it really works and get much done. | James 5:16 KJV | Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. |
| We can pray for anything with confidence, Elijah stopped the rain for over 3 years then started it again. | James 5:17-18 NASB | Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the sky poured rain, and the earth produced its fruit. |
| We are to live as aliens, spread out all over the world as God’s chosen. | 1Peter 1:1 NASB | Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen |
| In order to become a Christian we have to be known beforehand and the Spirit has to work. | 1Peter 1:2 NASB | according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure. |
| God caused us to become Christians and gain a living hope through the Ressurection | 1Peter 1:3 NASB | Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. |
| Our share in heaven will not fade away but its reserved for us. | 1Peter 1:4 NASB | to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, |
| Even though troubled by trail we are sure we are protected by God’s power. | 1Peter 1:5-6 NASB | who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials. |
| Be a glory to Jesus by enduring the problems we faced and the trials | 1Peter 1:7 NASB | That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: |
| We are joyful because we love and believe in Jesus, having never seen Him. | 1Peter 1:8-9 NASB | and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, Obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. |
| If we want to be true men of God like the Prophets, study the word. | 1Peter 1:10 NASB | As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry. |
| The spirit indicated Christ’s suffering and later glories a long time ago but the prophets wondered when. | 1Peter 1:11 NASB | seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. |
| Angels long to see what is being announced to us in the gospel | 1Peter 1:12 NASB | It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven – things into which angels long to look. |
| Put everything you got on Jesus, get your mind in gear and be alert. | 1Peter 1:13 NASB | Therefore, gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix you hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. |
| Be holy like God and not lustful like the way we used to be. | 1Peter 1:14-15 NASB | As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; |
| God judges according to our actions and we call him Father; therefore, be careful how you act. | 1Peter 1:17 NASB | And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each man’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon earth; |
| We were redeemed by Christ own precious blood and not silver – that’s why we should be holy. | 1Peter 1:18-19 NASB | knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. |
| Purification by obeying -> Love. | 1Peter 1:22 KJV | Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: |
| God’s word lives forever; this is the means by which we were saved. | 1Peter 1:23 NASB | for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God. |
| Word – desire it and you will know God is gracious | 1Peter 2:2-3 KJV | As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. |
| Jesus a precious stone to God, rejected by men. It is Him we come to. | 1Peter 2:4 NASB | And coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected by men, but choice and precious in the sight of God. |
| We are parts of the Building of God, so that spiritual sacrifices can be offered to Him. | 1Peter 2:5 NASB | Your also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. |
| People stumble because they are disobedient and to this they were appointed; therefore, Jesus is not precious to them. | 1Peter 2:7-8 NASB | The precious value, then, is for you who believe. But for those who disbelieve, “The stone which the builders rejected, this became the very corner stone,” and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. |
| We are to proclaim God’s perfection, God who chose us, called us and made us perfect. | 1Peter 2:9 NASB | But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. |
| We didn’t have mercy and once were nobodies but now we’re God’s people. | 1Peter 2:10 NASB | for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. |
| Purity – don’t fight your conscience | 1Peter 2:11 KJV | Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; |
| Do all things perfect so people can come when God calls. | 1Peter 2:12 KJV | Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. |
| Submit to governments and their rulers; the people who are good have nothing to worry about. | 1Peter 2:13-14 NASB | Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. |
| God’s will is that we win people to Christ, silence them by our good deeds. | 1Peter 2:15 NASB | For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. |
| We need to be obedient to those over us regardless of whether they are right. | 1Peter 2:18 NASB | Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable. |
| If we endure under sorrows, suffering unjustly, we can find favor with God. | 1Peter 2:19 NASB | For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a man bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. |
| Acceptable suffering is when we suffer unjustly. | 1Peter 2:20 KJV | For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. |
| We are to follow Christ’s example, suffering for others and being holy. | 1Peter 2:21-22 NASB | For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; |
| Christ our example, suffered and did not threaten, was hurt, but took no revenge. | 1Peter 2:23 KJV | Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: |
| Live to righteousness. He took our sins and we are now dead. | 1Peter 2:24 KJV | Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes we are healed. |
| Non-Christian husbands are won by the chaste and respectful behavior of their Christian wives. | 1Peter 3:1-2 NASB | In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. |
| Gentle and quiet spirit is an everlasting quality and should be found in all Christian women. | 1Peter 3:4 NASB | but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. |
| Wives weaker — give them honor so that our prayers are not hindered. | 1Peter 3:7 KJV | Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. |
| We were called for the purpose of giving a blessing instead of insults to get a blessing. | 1Peter 3:9 NASB | not returning evil for evil, or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. |
| If we want a good life we need to seek and pursue peace and watch our tongue. | 1Peter 3:10-11 NASB | For “Let him who means to love life and see good days refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile. And let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.” |
| God is set against the wicked but watches over us and listens carefully for our prayers. | 1Peter 3:12 NASB | For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears attend to their prayer, But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. |
| Don’t fear or be troubled when suffering for righteousness for you are blessed | 1Peter 3:14 NASB | But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, |
| Be ready at all times to give an account about why we have hope. | 1Peter 3:15 KJV | But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: |
| We need to be holy so that when people slander us they will be put to shame. | 1Peter 3:16 NASB | and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. |
| It is great if God wants you to suffer for doing good like Jesus | 1Peter 3:17 NASB | For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. |
| Answer to Sin – brings us to God | 1Peter 3:18 KJV | For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: |
| We are saved by desiring and asking God for a good conscience, not by baptism. | 1Peter 3:21 NASB | And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you — not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience – Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
| Arm ourselves with Christ’s mind. Suffer and over come sins. | 1Peter 4:1 KJV | Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; |
| We shouldn’t live after men’s lust’s but after God’s will. | 1Peter 4:2 KJV | That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. |
| Don’t continue in sin, you have already spent enough time in lust, pride, and the flesh | 1Peter 4:3 NASB | For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. |
| The reason we need to be alert in prayer is because the end in near. | 1Peter 4:7 NASB | The end of all things is at hand; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer. |
| Love stops sinning and overlooks it . We need it and uncomplaining hospitality | 1Peter 4:8-9 NASB | Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaint. |
| As we have received grace, we must also minister it wisely. | 1Peter 4:10 KJV | As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. |
| We need to do everything only as God supplies power, serving, speaking, to the glory of God | 1Peter 4:11 NASB | Whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were, the utterences of God; whoever serves, let him do so as by the strengh which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. |
| Don’t be surprised when testings come like a fire. | 1Peter 4:12 NASB | Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; |
| To rejoice at the end we need to rejoice in sufferings today. | 1Peter 4:13 NASB | but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing; so that also at the revelation of His glory, you may rejoice with exultation. |
| God’s Spirit and glory rest on us if we are put down for Jesus’ sake. | 1Peter 4:14 NASB | If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. |
| Don’t be ashamed in suffering, but glorify God and make sure you don’t suffer for wrong. | 1Peter 4:15-16 NASB | By no means let any of you suffer as a murderer, or theif, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler; but if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not feel ashamed, but in that name let him glorify God. |
| Judgment has begun for the Church, what then will happen to the non-Christians. | 1Peter 4:17 NASB | For it is time for judgement to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? |
| God is faithful; therefore, we should commit ourselves to Him in suffering. | 1Peter 4:19 NASB | Therefore, let those also who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right. |
| Be overseers of the Church near you, and do it happily, eagerly, and not for fleshly gain | 1Peter 5:2 NASB | shepherd the flock of God among you, not under compulsion, but voluntarily according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness; |
| Be an example to the flock so the Chief Shepherd can reward you. | 1Peter 5:3-4 NASB | nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock. And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. |
| Humility shall make us better as time goes on. | 1Peter 5:5-6 KJV | Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: |
| His Peace – He cares for us | 1Peter 5:7 KJV | Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. |
| The devil is trying to eat us all up – be alert, circcumspect, cautious | 1Peter 5:8 KJV | Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: |
| We need to resist the devil because our brouther are also suffering. | 1Peter 5:9 NASB | But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. |
| Christ called us, God will confirm establish strength and perfect us, after a little suffering. | 1Peter 5:10 NASB | And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. |
| Knowledge of God and of Jesus be multiplied to you. | 2Peter 1:2 NASB | Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; |
| Through the knowledge of Him we have all that we need to be sanctified. | 2Peter 1:3 NASB | seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. |
| Escape the world and have God’s nature in you by the promises given. | 2Peter 1:4 KJV | Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. |
| Build into your life moral perfection through faith and to that build in knowledge. | 2Peter 1:5 NASB | Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge; |
| We need self control, perseverance godliness, kindness and love to be fruitfull. | 2Peter 1:6-7 NASB | and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance and in your perseverance, godliness; and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. |
| We will not be useless or unfruitful if we have the qualities Peter spoke of. | 2Peter 1:8 NASB | For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| We should all seek to confirm our salvation in good works. | 2Peter 1:10 KJV | Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: |
| The gospel of Christ is not all made up but they were actually there seeing it. | 2Peter 1:16 KJV | For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewittnesses of his majesty. |
| Our hearts are enlightened by the word. Also it is good to obey it. | 2Peter 1:19 NASB | And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. |
| The Bible was written by Spirit filled men. Consequently, we just can’t interpret it any old way. | 2Peter 1:20-21 KJV | Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. |
| God is faithful to deliver from temptation and will keep the unrighteous for judgment. | 2Peter 2:9 NASB | then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment. |
| Jesus’ Patience – He’s not slack in His promises | 2Peter 3:9 KJV | The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us- ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. |
| Don’t fall from our sturdiness by the errors the wicked ones follow. | 2Peter 3:17 KJV | Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. |
| We tell of the things we have seen, heard and have handled, the Word of Life. | 1John 1:1 NASB | What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life – |
| Wittness so people can have fellowship with us and God. | 1John 1:3 KJV | That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. |
| The gospel as John preached it – holiness | 1John 1:5 NASB | And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. |
| Walk in the light and have fellowship and obtain forgiveness. | 1John 1:7 KJV | But if we walk in the light, as he is in the ? , we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. |
| Being in the Light means not saying we have not sinned. | 1John 1:8 KJV | If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. |
| Assurance of Forgiveness | 1John 1:9 KJV | If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. |
| We shouldn’t sin but if we do we have an advocate, Jesus, who died for us | 1John 2:1-2 NASB | My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. |
| Be like Christ if you want to say you are a Christian. | 1John 2:6 KJV | He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. |
| First learn the word, then after overcoming Satan, begin to know God… thus be a father. | 1John 2:14 NASB | I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. |
| Separate from the World – things in the world aren’t from God | 1John 2:15-16 KJV | Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. |
| The daily problems with lust will all be over at the end; if we do His will, we live on. | 1John 2:17 NASB | And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever. |
| We will be Christ like. We are sons, the world doesn’t know us. | 1John 3:1-2 KJV | Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. |
| Hope in being like Jesus at the end and we will be purified. | 1John 3:3 KJV | And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. |
| Jesus came to destroy Satan’s work; therefore, do not practice sin. | 1John 3:8 NASB | the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. |
| Christians have God’s seed abiding in them and they cannot sin habitually. | 1John 3:9 NASB | No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. |
| Love – do it by actions – live it. | 1John 3:18 KJV | My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. |
| God is greater than our hearts so we can be assured when it condemns us. | 1John 3:19-20 NASB | We shall know by this that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before Him. in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. |
| A necessity for answered prayer is to have a clear conscience before God. | 1John 3:21-22 NASB | 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 the things that are pleasing in His sight. |
| False religions – test them to see if they are false | 1John 4:1 KJV | Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: becausee many false prophets are gone out into the world. |
| God, who is in us, is greater than anyone in the world; therefore, we have overcome. | 1John 4:4 NASB | You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. |
| Love is central, and is rooted in God. We should do it. | 1John 4:7-8 KJV | Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
| Love is defined as God loving us and sending His Son first | 1John 4:10 KJV | Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
| As we love others God fills us with more love by the Spirit. | 1John 4:11-12 KJV | Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath see God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. |
| If we fear, we are not in that perfect love of God. | 1John 4:18 KJV | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. |
| Our faith is what gives us the victory to overcome the world. | 1John 5:4 KJV | For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. |
| Assurance of Salvation to those who are True Christians | 1John 5:11-12 KJV | And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. |
| Assurance of Salvation – believing on his name leads to salvation | 1John 5:13 KJV | These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Sof of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. |
| Answered prayer dependent upon God hearing us and that depends upon asking for His will. | 1John 5:14-15 KJV | And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing accouring to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. |
| Jesus is eternal life and God. He has given us the opportunity to know Him that is true. | 1John 5:20 KJV | And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. |
| God commands that our children walk in truth, John was happy that it happened. | 2John 1:4 NASB | I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. |
| Must not sin – If we do, we don’t have God | 2John 1:9 KJV | Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. |
| Only that our bodies were as healthy as our souls. | 3John 1:2 KJV | Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. |
| Real joy is knowing your spiritual kids are all continuing on in God’s truth. | 3John 1:4 NASB | I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. |
| When we support missionaries, we are fellow workers with them. They need 100% support. | 3John 1:7-8 NASB | For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. Therefore we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers with the truth. |
| Jesus is able to keep us faultless and unable to fall. | Jude 1:24 KJV | Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, |
| Jesus had eternity in his hands, a sharp sword in his mouth, and a glowing countenance. | Rev 1:16 NASB | And in His right hand He held seven stars; and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength. |
| Eating of the tree of life is our reward for overcoming. | Rev 2:7 KJV | He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. |
| When we are faithful to Jesus and His word, He puts doors before us which no one can close | Rev 3:7-8 NASB | And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ” He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this: ‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My Word, and have not denied My name. |
| We cannot be just Christians but truly turned on Christians | Rev 3:15-16 KJV | I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. |
| Salvation is available to everyone at all times. | Rev 3:20 KJV | Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. |
| Jesus overcame and sits on God’s throne. We too sit on His throne if we overcome. | Rev 3:21 NASB | He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. |
| How can we overcome the attacks of Satan. | Rev 12:11 KJV | And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. |
| Wrath is from the devil. | Rev 12:12 KJV | Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. |
