57 Bible Verses about Spiritual Vitality

I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

Let these things be your care, give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be manifest to all.

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety, and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you.

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;

Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lord's also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution.

For this is your calling; because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps;

By who says he "remains in him" ought to spend his life as he spent his.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

"Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man's power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

So, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that my labor had been in vain.

For inasmuch as he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted, he is also able instantly to succor those who are tempted.

My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy, because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

It is for discipline that you are enduring these sufferings. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all children share, then are you bastards and not sons. Furthermore, our earthly fathers used to discipline us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?read more.
For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share his holiness. Now no discipline seems for the present to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained under it.

I advise you to buy of me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white raiment to clothe yourself, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes, in order that you may see. All whom I love I reprove and discipline; therefore be full of zeal and repent.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong.

Finally, my brothers, let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Do you then, my son, strengthen you heart in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.

Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish. But if you are habitually led by the Spirit you are not under law.

for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.

I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead??y his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you??2 proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching. For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

And the child grew, and became strong in the Spirit, and remained in the desert till the day of his showing to Israel.

And the child grew and became strong, becoming full of wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control; against such there is no law.

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;read more.
but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice. That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor. Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.read more.
That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you. For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

His commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do.

because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

For this reason I also, from the time when I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and your love to all the saints,

Peace to the brothers and love, with faith from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints) because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel.

Now the end of the exhortation is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and an undissembled faith.

Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again will I say, rejoice! Let your reasonableness be recognized by every one. The Lord is near you. Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;read more.
and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God.

Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you. But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Whoever is destined to go into captivity, goes into captivity. Whoever shall kill with the sword, shall surely be killed by the sword. (Here is the endurance and faith of the saints.)