56 Bible Verses about Spiritual Vitality

We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers ??it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

Attend to these duties, let them absorb you, so that all men may note your progress.

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you.

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite. Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

Copy me, as I copy Christ.

(for all of you who had yourselves baptized into Christ have taken on the character of Christ).

I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,

and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.

It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps.

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence.

No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial, sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father? Discipline is the portion of all; if you get no discipline, then you are not sons but bastards. Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?read more.
For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness. Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see. I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

Watch, stand firm in the faith, play the man, be strong!

To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might;

Now, my son, be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus,

and do not get drunk with wine ??that means profligacy ??but be filled with the Spirit,

I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh. For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please. If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign, I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching, for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food.

Like newly-born children, thirst for the pure, spiritual milk to make you grow up to salvation.

And the child grew, he became strong in the Spirit and remained in the desert till the day when he made his appearance before Israel.

And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the favour of God was on him.

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity, gentleness, self-control: ??there is no law against those who practise such things.

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

But we all mirror the glory of the Lord with face unveiled, and so we are being transformed into the same likeness as himself, passing from one glory to another ??for this comes of the Lord the Spirit.

he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach, for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ, till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ ??14 instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;read more.
we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus.

so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice, that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably, not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.read more.
God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

Hence, as I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

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

since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints, due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again, 'rejoice.' Let your forbearance be known to everyone; the Lord is at hand. Never be anxious, but always make your requests known to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving;read more.
so shall God's peace, that surpasses all our dreams, keep guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

He took them up to his house and put food before them, overjoyed like all his household at having believed in God.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you. You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

but we must be sober, we who belong to the day, clad in faith and love as our coat of mail, with the hope of salvation as our helmet ??9 for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience.

Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.