114 Bible Verses about Spiritual
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but that which is spiritual is not first, but that which was natural, afterwards that which is spiritual.
which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
If we to you the spiritual things did sow -- great is it if we your fleshly things do reap?
and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
From Thematic Bible
Adorning » Spiritual » General references
She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Adorning » Spiritual » White raiment, the heavenly garment
and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'
He who is overcoming -- this one -- shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
And around the throne are thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;
After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,
Adorning » Spiritual » The robe of righteousness, the saint's adorning
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
And her priests I clothe with salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud.
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem -- the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.
And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: 'Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.' And he saith unto him, 'See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.'
Armour » Spiritual » Weapons and armour of the saints
put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,
and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,
Assurance » Spiritual
for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,
because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,
Beauty » Spiritual
One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Lift up a present, and come before Him. Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.
Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.
And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!
Boasting » Spiritual
To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.
Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish. A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased -- to the age. read more.
And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.
They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become -- do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right! read more.
by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing; for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect; for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God, for it hath been written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;' read more.
where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing. Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, also we -- we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness, and to those called -- both Jews and Greeks -- Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God, because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men; for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong; and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless -- that no flesh may glory before Him; and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption, that, according as it hath been written, 'He who is glorying -- in the Lord let him glory.'
Body » Resurrection of » Spiritual
who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;
and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.
for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.
Brethren » Spiritual » The family of God
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, 'See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'
wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,
And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;
And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did it.
Christ » Words of characteristics of » Spiritual
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
Circumcision » Spiritual
in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
'And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
Clothing » Spiritual » White raiment, the heavenly garment
and I say to you -- Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.'
He who is overcoming -- this one -- shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
And around the throne are thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;
After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,
Clothing » Spiritual » The robe of righteousness, the saint's adorning
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.
And her priests I clothe with salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud.
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem -- the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.
And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: 'Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.' And he saith unto him, 'See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.'
Consequences of sin » death » Physical » Spiritual » Separation from God
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
unto a land flowing with milk and honey, for I do not go up in thy midst, for thou art a stiff-necked people -- lest I consume thee in the way.'
Israel hath sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put it among their vessels, and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you -- if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.
Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.
And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.
Darkness » Spiritual
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
Deafness » Spiritual
and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'
To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house are they.
And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.
Dearth » Spiritual
The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.
Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.
death » Spiritual
because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;
being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
death » Spiritual » Of the wicked
And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.
Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?
And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
Debtors » Spiritual
for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,
for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
Diligence » Spiritual
do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.
for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,
Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that is to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;
if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,
Enlightenment » Spiritual
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.
Feasts » Of new moons » Spiritual
And he saith to me, 'Write: Happy are they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, 'These are the true words of God;'
And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'
Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;
And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
Fulness » Spiritual » Warnings against worldly fulness
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.
They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat -- thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.
Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of blessing
Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of joy
these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.
and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of the spirit
and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of wisdom
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of God
to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;
Fulness » Spiritual » The overflowing cup
Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Christ, the saviour
Jesus answered and said to her, 'If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.
for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven; for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Faith
because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Wisdom
and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Repentance
And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, 'Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Grace
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Christ the chief of
Jesus answered and said to her, 'If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.
for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven; for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Rest
and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,
'Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Faith
because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Are through Christ
Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.
and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, wherefore, he saith, 'Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Pray for
if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Wisdom
and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Glory
For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
'And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Grace
For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » The holy ghost
If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
And Peter said unto him, 'Thy silver with thee -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money;
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Righteousness
and not as through one who did sin is the free gift, for the judgment indeed is of one to condemnation, but the gift is of many offences to a declaration of 'Righteous,' for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » A new heart
And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » To be used for mutual profit
each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Not repented of by him
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Strength and power
Fearful, O God, out of Thy sanctuaries, The God of Israel Himself, Giving strength and might to the people. Blessed is God!
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Eternal life
for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Peace
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Repentance
And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, 'Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'
Glory » Spiritual » Is the work of the holy ghost
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Glory » Spiritual » Is given by God
For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
Glory » Spiritual » Is given by Christ
'And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;
Glory » Spiritual » Is the work of the holy spirit
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Good » Tidings » Spiritual
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, 'Reigned hath thy God.'
And the messenger answering said to him, 'I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,
On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, 'Lo, your God.'
Lo, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming tidings, sounding peace! Celebrate, O Judah, thy festivals, complete thy vows, For add no more to pass over into thee doth the worthless, He hath been completely cut off!
Healing » Spiritual
Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise art Thou.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.
'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.
Heirs » Spiritual » Spiritual
For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?
Heritage » Spiritual
in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;
Hope » Spiritual » Abides forever
and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,
if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Hope » Spiritual » Enabled abraham to become the father of the faithful
and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'
Hope » Spiritual » Believers called to testify concerning
and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
Hope » Spiritual » The scriptures the source of
for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
Hope » Spiritual » The saving element in life
for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?
Hope » Spiritual » Inspires to clean living
Hunger » Spiritual
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. 'Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.
For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.
Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk. Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf into a threshing-floor.
Imitation » Of worldly people and customs condemned » Spiritual
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.
Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,
not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.
Inheritance » Earthly » Spiritual
in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;
The law of God » Described as » Spiritual
Life » Spiritual
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;
and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'
Life » Spiritual » Spotless, general references to
that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
Thou art all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,
Life » Spiritual » Necessitates death to sin and self
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,
Life » Spiritual » Secured through faith
Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'
and if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,
so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Life » Spiritual » Christ the supreme object of
for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.
for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
Life » Spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
'And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.
Life » Spiritual » Love the demonstration of
we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.
Men » Spiritual » Evil men put to silence
And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!
The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.
So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
Mind » Spiritual
For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.
for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;
Nation » Spiritual » Sins of
and the people come in unto Moses and say, 'We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee; pray unto Jehovah, and He doth turn aside from us the serpent;' and Moses prayeth in behalf of the people.
Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.
and say, 'O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.
And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, saying, 'We have sinned against Thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and serve the Baalim.'
And they are gathered to Mizpeh, and draw water, and pour out before Jehovah, and fast on that day, and say there, 'We have sinned against Jehovah;' and Samuel judgeth the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.
Nation » Spiritual » The righteous cultivate the spirit of
If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.
and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
Nation » Spiritual » Rebellion against
and any who doth not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, speedily is judgment done upon him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of riches, and to bonds.'
In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,
and every one who cometh not in by the third day, according to the counsel of the heads and of the elders, all his substance is devoted, and himself separated from the assembly of the removal.
And the man who acteth with presumption, so as not to hearken unto the priest (who is standing to serve there Jehovah thy God), or unto the judge, even that man hath died, and thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel,
so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.
Preparation » Spiritual » Abandonment of idols
And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, 'If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah -- turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'
but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'
Preparation » Spiritual » Cleansing of God's temple
and they gather their brethren, and sanctify themselves, and come in, according to the command of the king in the matters of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah,
Preparation » Spiritual » Personal purification
if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
Preparation » Spiritual » Returning unto the lord
and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'
Reputation » Spiritual
for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;
by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak. By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well, and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder. read more.
By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir. By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go; by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God. By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable. In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city. By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, of whom it was said -- 'In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him. By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau; by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff; by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command. By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king; by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season, greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward; by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured; by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them. By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up; by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days; by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace. And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens. Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth; and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
Rest » Spiritual
take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,
We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard, for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world, read more.
for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;' and in this place again, 'If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief -- again He doth limit a certain day, 'To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,' for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things; there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
Rivers » Jordan » Spiritual
They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:
O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
And he measureth a thousand -- a stream that I am not able to pass over; for risen have the waters -- waters to swim in -- a stream that is not passed over.
Sleep » Spiritual » Symbol of death
Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
'When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;
And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, 'Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.
Sleep » Spiritual » General references to natural
And he lieth down and sleepeth under a certain retem-tree, and lo, a messenger cometh against him, and saith to him, 'Rise, eat;'
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, 'So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!
and the mariners are afraid, and cry each unto his god, and cast the goods that are in the ship into the sea, to make it light of them; and Jonah hath gone down unto the sides of the vessel, and he lieth down, and is fast asleep.
And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;
and lo, a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves, but he was sleeping,
Sleep » Spiritual » Warnings against
according as it hath been written, 'God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,
wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;
watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning; lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Radiant lives, of the saints
And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
Spiritual » Blindness » Examples of
We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?
but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --
Spiritual » Adoption » Adultery
and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside with haste out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah -- they have not done so.
and Gideon maketh it into an ephod, and setteth it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go a-whoring after it there, and it is to Gideon and to his house for a snare.
And they trespass against the God of their fathers, and go a-whoring after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God destroyed from their presence;
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
And remembered Me have your escaped among nations, Whither they have been taken captive, Because I have been broken with their heart that is going a-whoring, That hath turned aside from off Me, And with their eyes they are going a-whoring after their idols, And they have been loathsome in their own faces, For the evils that they have done -- all their abominations.
Spiritual » Hunger select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.
With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Of God
See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee with kindness.
Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,
Spiritual » Instruction » Examples of spiritual
And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, are on their station,
this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to them, and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,
And in the third year of his reign he hath sent for his heads, for Ben-Hail, and for Obadiah, and for Zechariah, and for Nethaneel, and for Michaiah, to teach in cities of Judah,
and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him -- Jesus.
Spiritual » Quickening » General references to spiritual quickening
O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.
For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,
And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.
Daleth. Cleaved to the dust hath my soul, Quicken me according to Thy word.
Spiritual » Poverty » Destitution of the truth
wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Food
I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving it.
He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Enlightenment, spiritual
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.
Spiritual » Enlargement » Enlightenment
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Brethren
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, 'See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'
wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,
And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;
And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did it.
Spiritual » Hearing » Heritage
in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.
having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » To God encouraged
Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.
and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,
Only, be very watchful to do the command and the law which Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him, with all your heart, and with all your soul.'
yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;
And Jesus said to him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding --
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Exhortations to those engaged in
and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'
Say to the hastened of heart, 'Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
And now, be strong, O Zerubbabel, An affirmation of Jehovah, And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest, And be strong, all ye people of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And do ye -- (for I am with you, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts) --
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Let your hands be strong, Ye who are hearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, That in the day the house of Jehovah of Hosts Hath been founded, the temple is to be built.
Spiritual » Foundation » General references to
Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: 'Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.
'Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone,
for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;
Spiritual » Hearing » Heirs of God
For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?
Spiritual » Of God's word sins of » Imitation
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.
Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,
not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;
the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Healing of spiritual disease
Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise art Thou.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.
'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.
Spiritual » Refining » The refining influence of afflictions
And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'
And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,
Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.
Spiritual » Light » God a light
God is Jehovah, and He giveth to us light, Direct ye the festal-sacrifice with cords, Unto the horns of the altar.
For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
and night shall not be there, and they have no need of a lamp and light of a sun, because the Lord God doth give them light, and they shall reign -- to the ages of the ages.
By David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?
Spiritual » Light » Reflected from believers
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Coming with power
and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, 'Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God -- the Almighty!
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, 'Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;
And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.
And he said to them, 'Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.'
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Kingdom of Christ
these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'
Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.'
that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
and he said to Jesus, 'Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'
Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
Spiritual » Resurrection » Man, raised from spiritual death
And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.
for if the casting away of them is a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?
Spiritual » Cleansing » Spiritual encouraged
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
Spiritual » Renewal » Man, strengthened and renewed by the holy spirit
wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;
(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;
A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.
and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
Spiritual » Crowns » Darkness
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
Spiritual » Adoption » Adorning
She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Treasures
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
Jesus said to him, 'If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'
yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.
'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.
Spiritual » Of children encouraged » Investments
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
Jesus said to him, 'If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.'
yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.
'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.
They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf into a threshing-floor.
Spiritual » Cleansing » Composure
'Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;
and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,
but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.
but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,
and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Spiritual » Temple » General references to
and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- 'I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?
Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner -stone, in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord, in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Spiritual » Sowing » Surgery
for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.
Spiritual » Hearing » Spiritual of believers
O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.
So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.
And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain it, and bear fruit in continuance.
O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Kingdom of heaven
'For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,
'Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom;
'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,
'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.
Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'
To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.
Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house are they.
And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Preaching of
to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.
And when they believed Philip, proclaiming good news, the things concerning the reign of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women;
and he said unto them -- 'Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;'
And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the reign of God,
And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve are with him,
Spiritual » Sowing » Striving
'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,
and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;
for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Walking with God
These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
For all the peoples do walk, Each in the name of its god -- and we, We do walk in the name of Jehovah our God, To the age and for ever.
And the king standeth by the pillar, and maketh the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commands, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all the heart, and with all the soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are written on this book, and all the people stand in the covenant.
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.
Spiritual » Battles » Beauty
and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;
Who is this that is looking forth as morning, Fair as the moon -- clear as the sun, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts?'
And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty -- for it is complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,
Spiritual » Crowns » Debtors
for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,
for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » New Birth
and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.
and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.
Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Weapons
And David saith unto the Philistine, 'Thou art coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming unto thee in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which thou hast reproached.
for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Moses' fellowship with God
and Moses hath drawn nigh by himself unto Jehovah; and they draw not nigh, and the people go not up with him.
and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which are on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.
And it hath come to pass, at the going in of Moses to the tent, the pillar of the cloud cometh down, and hath stood at the opening of the tent, and He hath spoken with Moses;
And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God is.
And Moses hath gone up unto God, and Jehovah calleth unto him out of the mount, saying, 'Thus dost thou say to the house of Jacob, and declare to the sons of Israel,
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Body
who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;
and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.
for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Bondage
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.
Jesus answered them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Spiritual » Sleep » Warnings against
according as it hath been written, 'God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,
wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;
watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning; lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Dawn, spiritual, the coming of Christ ushers in the
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;
Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Harvest
and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
then said he unto them, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.
Spiritual » Crowns » Dawn
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;
Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Shining faces, general references to
and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,
and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,
and Aaron seeth -- all the sons of Israel also -- Moses, and lo, the skin of his face hath shone, and they are afraid of coming nigh unto him.
Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
And none doth turn it back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, 'Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'
Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house are they.
A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --
hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of it?
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.
Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.
for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;
My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
Spiritual » Kingdom » General references to
Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;
for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
Spiritual » Progress » A characteristic of the righteous
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.
Spiritual » Power » Fills life with healing influences
because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,
mighty works also -- not common -- was God working through the hands of Paul, so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.
and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Sanity
reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded -- him having had the legion -- and they were afraid;
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!
Spiritual » Feasts » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
And he saith to me, 'Write: Happy are they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, 'These are the true words of God;'
And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.'
Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;
And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.
Spiritual » Sowing » The blessings of
Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap, Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!
Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
Spiritual » Future rest of the saints restoration » Spiritual, of the penitent
Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.
He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins.
His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.
For I increase health to thee, And from thy strokes I do heal thee, An affirmation of Jehovah, For 'Outcast' they have called to thee, 'Zion it is, there is none seeking for her.'
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Circumcision
in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,
and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
'And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.
but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Utterance
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,
but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;
and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,
that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,
Spiritual » Traffic » Exhortations to men to engage in
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.
'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.
and the prudent answered, saying -- Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Examples of
as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.
for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,
Spiritual » Enlargement » failure
since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --
if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Discernment
and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know them, because spiritually they are discerned;
and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'
To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.
Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.
and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
Spiritual » Hearing » Highway
Pass ye on, pass on through the gates, Prepare ye the way of the people, Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, Lift up an ensign over the peoples.
And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the 'way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.
A highway of the upright is, 'Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.
Set up for thee signs, make for thee heaps, Set thy heart to the highway, the way thou wentest, Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back unto these thy cities.
Spiritual » Adoption » Attraction
Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!
From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee with kindness.
With cords of man I do draw them, With thick cords of love, And I am to them as a raiser up of a yoke on their jaws, And I incline unto him -- I feed him.
no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
Jesus said to them, 'If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
Pure am I, without transgression, Innocent am I, and I have no iniquity.
Spiritual » Adoption » Armour
put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,
and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Showers
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Rivers
They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:
O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
And he measureth a thousand -- a stream that I am not able to pass over; for risen have the waters -- waters to swim in -- a stream that is not passed over.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.
and so with the ambassadors of the heads of Babylon, those sending unto him to inquire of the wonder that hath been in the land, God hath left him to try him, to know all in his heart,
In Gibeon hath Jehovah appeared unto Solomon, in a dream of the night, and God saith, 'Ask -- what do I give to thee?'
Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,
Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
Spiritual » Renewal » Reputation
for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;
by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak. By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well, and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder. read more.
By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir. By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go; by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor is God. By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable. In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city. By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, of whom it was said -- 'In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive him. By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau; by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff; by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command. By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king; by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season, greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward; by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured; by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them. By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up; by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days; by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace. And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens. Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and in mountains, and in caves, and in the holes of the earth; and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,
Spiritual » Light » General references to
And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness is as noon.
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Disease
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?
Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.
For mortal are her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people -- to Jerusalem.
And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, 'They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.'
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Times of spiritual refreshing
And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;
great is my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,
and when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was going on his way rejoicing;
And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ, the multitudes also were giving heed to the things spoken by Philip, with one accord, in their hearing and seeing the signs that he was doing,
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.
Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Heirship with Christ entailed in
and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'
Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,
because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Heirship with Christ entailed in
and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'
Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,
because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.
Spiritual » Receptivity » General references to
then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
'And that sown on the good ground: this is he who is hearing the word, and is understanding, who indeed doth bear fruit, and doth make, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.'
and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;
Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;
Spiritual » Hope » Abides forever
and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,
if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.
and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Watchmen
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.
'On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,
that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.
And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, 'We do not attend.'
Spiritual » Life » Necessitates death to sin and self
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Near at hand
From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, 'Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.'
so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;
Spiritual » Mind » Mind of Christ
For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.
Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,
Spiritual » Mind » Spiritual mind
For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.
for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;
Spiritual » Life » Secured through faith
Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'
and if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,
so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,
and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;
And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,
and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Fidelity
for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.
And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations, and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,
Spiritual » Enlargement » Exercise
'And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;
For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,
Spiritual » Encouraged » In love
and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
for ye do it also to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
Spiritual » Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ; with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Abiding in Christ
'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;
and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.
And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;
Spiritual » Talk » Used in everyday life
and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.
thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for Jehovah your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Spiritual cleansing
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron -- as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken -- as I also have received from my Father;
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood, and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.
Spiritual » Liberty » The presence of the spirit secures
And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;
and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Victory over satan
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;
and night shall not be there, and they have no need of a lamp and light of a sun, because the Lord God doth give them light, and they shall reign -- to the ages of the ages.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » A spiritual crown
'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.
He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving it.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Without defect
being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Abandonment of idols
And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, 'If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah -- turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'
but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Endurance
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Growth
concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, for every one who is partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, read more.
and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during, and this we will do, if God may permit, read more.
for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, and having fallen away, again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning; and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak, for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, saying, 'Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath,
Spiritual » Encouraged » Into Christ
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
Spiritual » Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already. 'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,
Spiritual » Immaturity » Necessity for tutelage
And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant -- being lord of all, but is under tutors and stewards till the time appointed of the father,
Spiritual » Labourers » Prayer for the increase of
And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.
then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'
Spiritual » Knowledge » A cause for exultation
But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.
And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.
Spiritual » Life » Christ the supreme object of
for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.
for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of glory
'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.
and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.
Spiritual » Life » Sustained by the word of God
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
'And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Sympathetic service
'Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;
And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: 'Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses saith unto the people, 'Fear not, for to try you hath God come, and in order that His fear may be before your faces -- that ye sin not.'
And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, 'Abraham;' and he saith, 'Here am I.'
Spiritual » Rest » Lost by stubbornness
Unto whom He hath said, 'This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,
For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: 'In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Humility
Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Dedication of God's house
and they sacrifice on that day great sacrifices and rejoice, for God hath made them rejoice with great joy, and also, the women and the children have rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem is heard -- unto a distance.
and they make the feast of unleavened things seven days with joy, for Jehovah made them to rejoice, and turned round the heart of the king of Asshur unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Spiritual » Immaturity » Continuance in the primary department
for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of blessing
Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over severest afflictions
Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Obedience secures the benefits of
and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'
for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Peter, the profane fisherman becomes a man whose very shadow heals
Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- 'I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,
so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay them upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even his shadow might overshadow some one of them;
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » John the vindictive jew becomes the apostle of love
Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem. And his disciples James and John having seen, said, 'Sir, wilt thou that we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?'
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Obedience secures the benefits of
and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'
for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of joy
these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.
and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.
Spiritual » Rest » True response found in God
And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,
Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest, For Jehovah hath conferred benefits on thee.
Spiritual » Rest » The divine presence gives
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over evil influences of men
By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
And ye have trodden down the wicked, For they are ashes under the soles of your feet, In the day that I am appointing, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The woman of samaria of unsavoury reputation becomes an evangel of truth
the woman answered and said, 'I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, 'Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not; for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'
Spiritual » Hope » Enabled abraham to become the father of the faithful
and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The cold-hearted philippian jailer becomes a sympathetic friend
and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe them from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,
who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Eternal life
every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;
and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The death of Christ
In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink it -- to the remembrance of me;' for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth -- till he may come;
Spiritual » Light promised » To the followers of Christ
Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;
Spiritual » Light promised » To the obedient
Light is sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart -- joy.
And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.
Spiritual » Liberty » The mission of Christ to proclaim
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
Spiritual » Liberty » The truth the instrumentality
Spiritual » Vision » Afflictions prepare for
And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
Spiritual » Power » Source of spiritual power
but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'
But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,
Jesus then having lifted up his eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, 'Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' -- and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Watching
all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness, so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Saul the bloodthirsty persecutor becomes paul, the tender-hearted brother
and Paul answered, 'What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'
And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Worshipping
yea, it cometh to pass, as one are trumpeters and singers, to sound -- one voice -- to praise and to give thanks to Jehovah, and at the lifting up of the sound with trumpets, and with cymbals, and with instruments of song, and at giving praise to Jehovah, for good, for to the age is His kindness, that the house is filled with a cloud -- the house of Jehovah, and the priests have not been able to stand to minister from the presence of the cloud, for the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house of God.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The boy Christ
and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The restless demoniac becomes a quiet disciple
and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.
and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded -- him having had the legion -- and they were afraid;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The thessalonians
We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;
Spiritual » Power » Enables men to speak with authority
And with great power were the apostles giving the testimony to the rising again of the Lord Jesus, great grace also was on them all,
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Cleansing of God's temple
and they gather their brethren, and sanctify themselves, and come in, according to the command of the king in the matters of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah,
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Spiritual weapons
for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Spiritual weapons
for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
Spiritual » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
Spiritual » Power » Accompanies the baptism of the holy spirit
but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'
and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Believers called to
faithful is God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant grace
and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,
Spiritual » Perception » The wise man
The wise! -- his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
Spiritual » Labourers » Worthy of reward
The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching, for the Writing saith, 'An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and 'Worthy is the workman of his reward.'
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Many varieties of
And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The bankrupt servant
'Because of this was the reign of the heavens likened to a man, a king, who did will to take reckoning with his servants, and he having begun to take account, there was brought near to him one debtor of a myriad of talents, and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The bankrupt servant
'Because of this was the reign of the heavens likened to a man, a king, who did will to take reckoning with his servants, and he having begun to take account, there was brought near to him one debtor of a myriad of talents, and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Witnessing
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant supplies
and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Past mercies
Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:
Spiritual » Rest » Eternal
And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, 'Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' 'Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours -- and their works do follow them!'
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over all satanic powers
and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, and the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God,
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Spiritual receptivity the condition of
lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Spiritual » Crowns » Cast at jesus' feet
fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Spiritual » Crowns » To be guarded
Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The laodicean church
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The laodicean church
because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Saints in heaven and earth united in
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » All barriers broken down
Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The gentiles
that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Saints in heaven and earth united in
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » All barriers broken down
Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The gentiles
that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Endurance
if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny him, he also shall deny us;
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Personal purification
if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Discovered by spiritual vision
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » God's blessing the source of
The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Young soldiers enlisted
This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » A fight of faith
be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Invisible foes
because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Young soldiers enlisted
This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » A fight of faith
be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Invisible foes
because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant power
and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The delights of God's word
Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the inseparable love of God
for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the divine keeping power
for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.
Spiritual » Immaturity » Instability of faith
that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of the spirit
and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of wisdom
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of God
to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Produced in all periods of life
Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish. Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,
Spiritual » Talk » Spiritual thoughts expressed in music
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Found in spiritual assemblies
for where there are two or three gathered together -- to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of righteousness
henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Perennial
And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every kind of fruit-tree whose leaf fadeth not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yieldeth first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely, who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Walking
for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » More precious than earthly
greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Unsearchable
to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » A paradox
There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Enduring
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Spiritual receptivity
'And that sown on the good ground: this is he who is hearing the word, and is understanding, who indeed doth bear fruit, and doth make, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.'
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » An everlasting name
For thus said Jehovah of the eunuchs, Who do keep My sabbaths, And have fixed on that which I desired, And are keeping hold on My covenant: I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Spiritual knowledge
And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I am Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Spiritual rest
'Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » A new heart
And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The boy samuel
And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and is good both with Jehovah, and also with men.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the just
And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the certainty of the divine promises
In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,
Spiritual » Encouraged » Formation
And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
Spiritual » Perception » Nehemiah
And I discern, and lo, God hath not sent him, for in the prophecy he hath spoken unto me both Tobiah and Sanballat hired him,
Spiritual » Perception » David
and David knoweth that Jehovah hath established him for king over Israel, and that He hath lifted up his kingdom, because of His people Israel.
Spiritual » Vision » The holy spirit the author of
He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you. 'All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;
Spiritual » Vision » Uses the telescope of faith
by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One -- he endured;
Spiritual » Power » Mightier than physical forces
And he answereth and speaketh unto me, saying: 'This is a word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by a force, nor by power, But -- by My Spirit, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Spiritual » Talk » Christ the topic of
And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which is Emmaus, and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.
Spiritual » Rest » Found in Christ's service
take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » Inward righteousness
'For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » A childlike spirit
and said, 'Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Brotherhood of, recognized by Christ
for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Brotherhood of, recognized by Christ
for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Warring
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant entrance
for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The blessings of a spiritual life
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Brings joy in the night season
As with milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And with singing lips doth my mouth praise. If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the church of the future
Thy sun goeth no more in, And thy moon is not removed, For Jehovah becometh to thee a light age-during. And the days of thy mourning have been completed.
Spiritual » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Obedience, the condition of receiving
Jesus answered them and said, 'My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me; if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Liberates the soul from all error
Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'
Spiritual » Vision » Given in answer to prayer
And Elisha prayeth, and saith, 'Jehovah, open, I pray Thee, his eyes, and he doth see;' and Jehovah openeth the eyes of the young man, and he seeth, and lo, the hill is full of horses and chariots of fire, round about Elisha.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Grown only upon good ground
and others fell upon the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.
Spiritual » Talk » Concerns the things of God
Spiritual » Talk » The habit of the saints
Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.
Spiritual » Hope » Believers called to testify concerning
and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » An inward battle
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » An inward battle
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The return from captivity
Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Love of Christ
whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » All the teachings of the gospel
to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The wonderful works of God
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who is from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the benevolent
Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the upright
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the divine ability
Spiritual » Perception » The shunammite woman
and she saith unto her husband, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have known that a holy man of God he is, passing over by us continually;
Spiritual » Encouraged » Through "the word"
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Spiritual » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
Spiritual » Liberty » Spiritual, a mark of the new dispensation
To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
Spiritual » Liberty » The bondage of sin broken
that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;
Spiritual » Vision » Heart purity essential to
Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.
Spiritual » Hope » The scriptures the source of
for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.
Spiritual » Hope » The saving element in life
for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?
Spiritual » Life » Love the demonstration of
we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.
Spiritual » Rest » Appropriated by faith
for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over malign spiritual forces
lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you;
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over worldly allurements
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Mary magdalene
and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » In the communion of saints
And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Testimony an aid to
that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Warms the heart
And they said one to another, 'Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of life
Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The prodigal son
and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The prodigal son
and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Death of the old life
verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Thomas
therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, 'We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Peter
He saith to him again, a second time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Tend my sheep.'
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Paul
and Paul answered, 'What do ye -- weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » The holy spirit
If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant life
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant joys
They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The words of Christ concerning benevolence
all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Is quickened by the holy spirit
and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.
Spiritual » Receptivity » Martha received him into her house
and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,
Spiritual » Perception » Peter
And Peter having opened his mouth, said, 'Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,
Spiritual » Liberty » A new law of life sets free
for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;
Spiritual » Fulness » The overflowing cup
Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!
Spiritual » Vision » Believers alone possess
yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » The product of heavenly wisdom
and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
Spiritual » Talk » Tends to religious fervency
And they said one to another, 'Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'
Spiritual » Rest » Vainly sought in escape from trouble
Spiritual » Hope » Inspires to clean living
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Leaves its impress upon the life
And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --
Spiritual » Examples of growth » John the baptist
And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Returning unto the lord
and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'
Spiritual » Riches general references to » The inheritance of God's elect
Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Contact with living water
And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Chastening, or pruning
every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » The sinful women
therefore I say to thee, her many sins have been forgiven, because she did love much; but to whom little is forgiven, little he doth love.'
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Mary of bethany
Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Faith and love
Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Perseverance
and Jesus said unto him, 'No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The lord as a deliverer
In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Paul
And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Spiritual » Perception » The samaritan woman
Spiritual » Perception » Jesus
And Jesus having known their reasonings, answering, said unto them, 'What reason ye in your hearts?
Spiritual » Knowledge » Obtained by acquaintanceship with God
And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
Spiritual » Knowledge » Leads to eternal life
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
Spiritual » Power » Gives men courage to rebuke sin
And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.
Spiritual » Power » Jesus the supreme example of
And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a fame went forth through all the region round about concerning him,
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Working
it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » New Birth
Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
good Tidings » Spiritual
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, 'Reigned hath thy God.'
And the messenger answering said to him, 'I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,
On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, 'Lo, your God.'
Lo, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming tidings, sounding peace! Celebrate, O Judah, thy festivals, complete thy vows, For add no more to pass over into thee doth the worthless, He hath been completely cut off!
Watchmen » Spiritual
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.
'On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,
that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.
And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, 'We do not attend.'
Way provided » Spiritual
Pass ye on, pass on through the gates, Prepare ye the way of the people, Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, Lift up an ensign over the peoples.
And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the 'way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.
A highway of the upright is, 'Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.
Set up for thee signs, make for thee heaps, Set thy heart to the highway, the way thou wentest, Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back unto these thy cities.
Weapons » Spiritual » Sword of the spirit
and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,
'And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.
Weapons » Spiritual » General references to weapons
And David saith unto the Philistine, 'Thou art coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming unto thee in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which thou hast reproached.
for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds,
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
Weapons » Spiritual » Trust in weapons vain
And David saith unto the Philistine, 'Thou art coming unto me with sword, and with spear, and with buckler, and I am coming unto thee in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, God of the ranks of Israel, which thou hast reproached.
and the house of Judah I pity, and have saved them by Jehovah their God, and do not save them by bow, and by sword, and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.'
And have overturned the throne of kingdoms, And I have destroyed the strength of kingdoms of the nations, And overturned chariot and its charioteers, And come down have horses and their riders, Each by the sword of his brother.
Words » Christ's, characteristics of » Spiritual
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
Words of Christ » Characteristics of » Spiritual
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
Topics on Spiritual
Abundance, Spiritual
Exodus 34:6and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: 'Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
Abuse, Of Spiritual Things
Numbers 20:10and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, 'Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?'
Adultery, Spiritual
1 John 2:15-17Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Appetite, Spiritual
Isaiah 55:1Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.
Armor, Spiritual
Ephesians 6:11put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,
Babies Used As A Spiritual Image
1 Corinthians 3:1-2And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
Beauty, Spiritual
Psalm 110:3Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Betrothal, Spiritual
2 Corinthians 11:2for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
Birth, Spiritual
John 3:3Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
Blessings, Spiritual
John 3:16for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Bondage, Spiritual
2 Timothy 2:26and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.
Circumcision, spiritual
Deuteronomy 30:6'And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;
Clean, Spiritual Use
Job 9:30If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,
Crowns, Spiritual Use
Isaiah 62:3And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,
David, Spiritual Significance Of
Acts 2:29'Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;
Dividing Spiritual Blessings
Acts 1:17because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration,
drought, spiritual
Psalm 68:6God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
equipping, spiritual
Isaiah 61:1-2The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.
Escaping, Spiritual Things
Genesis 39:10-12And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day by day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her;
Fruit, Spiritual
James 3:13Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
Fruitfulness, Spiritual
Galatians 5:22-23And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;
Gifts From God, Spiritual
John 6:32Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;
Inheritance, Spiritual
Hebrews 1:2in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
Labor, Spiritual Aspects Of
John 4:38I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.
Land, Spiritual Aspects Of
Genesis 2:8-9And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;
Leaders, Spiritual
Hebrews 5:4and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:
Light, Spiritual
1 John 1:5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
Many Spiritual Beings
Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders -- and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands --
Maturity, Spiritual
Ephesians 4:13-15till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,
Not Seeing Spiritual Things
Daniel 10:7And I have seen -- I, Daniel, by myself -- the appearance: and the men who have been with me have not seen the appearance, but a great trembling hath fallen on them, and they flee to be hidden;
Origins Of Spiritual Life
John 3:6-8that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Predestination, Spiritual Events
Exodus 33:19and He saith, 'I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'
Purity, Moral And Spiritual
Habakkuk 1:13Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,
Rejection Of Spiritual Instruction
2 Chronicles 30:10And the runners are passing over from city to city, in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun: and they are laughing at them, and mocking at them,
Rest, Spiritual
Lamentations 5:19-22Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
Riches, Spiritual
Romans 11:33-36O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
Slavery, Spiritual
John 8:33-36They answered him, 'Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'
Sleep, Spiritual
Isaiah 56:10Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
Spiritual Adoption
Exodus 4:22-23and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born is Israel,
Spiritual Allegories
John 10:1-16'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
Spiritual Blindness, Consequences Of
Romans 1:20-22for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;
Spiritual Blindness, In Unbelievers
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Spiritual Blindness, Removal Of
2 Corinthians 4:6because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Blindness, Results Of Sin
Lamentations 4:14They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without any being able to touch their clothing,
Spiritual crowns
Isaiah 61:3To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, 'Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
Spiritual Darkness
John 11:10and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
Spiritual Dawn
2 Peter 1:19And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;
Spiritual Deafness
2 Timothy 4:4and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
Spiritual Death
Romans 6:23for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Spiritual Depths
1 Corinthians 2:10but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,
Spiritual Desires
Isaiah 26:9With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
Spiritual Destitution
Matthew 5:3Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
Spiritual Discernment
2 Kings 4:9and she saith unto her husband, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have known that a holy man of God he is, passing over by us continually;
Spiritual Failure
Matthew 7:27and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
Spiritual Famine,
Amos 8:11-12Lo, days are coming, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have sent a famine into the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water But of hearing the words of Jehovah.
Spiritual Famine, Relief Of
Psalm 107:9For He hath satisfied a longing soul, And a hungry soul hath filled with goodness.
Spiritual Fathers
1 Corinthians 4:15for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;
Spiritual Foundations
1 Corinthians 3:11for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;
Spiritual Fulness
Psalm 23:5Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!
Spiritual Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:1And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;
Spiritual Gifts, Diversity Of
1 Corinthians 12:4-6And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;
Spiritual Gifts, Given To Church
Ephesians 4:11and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,
Spiritual Gifts, Importance Of Love
1 Corinthians 13:1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
Spiritual Gifts, Purpose Of
1 Corinthians 14:12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
Spiritual Gifts, Warnings About
1 Corinthians 14:39so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;
Spiritual Growth
2 Corinthians 9:10and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
Spiritual Harlotry
Hosea 5:4They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.
Spiritual Hunger
1 Peter 2:2as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
Spiritual Ignorance
1 Corinthians 12:1And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;
Spiritual Illumination
Daniel 5:14And I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and light, and understanding, and excellent wisdom have been found in thee.
Spiritual Immaturity
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
Spiritual Investment
Matthew 6:20but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,
Spiritual life
John 6:63the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
Spiritual Life, Described By
Romans 6:11so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual Life, Maintained By
John 6:57'According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
Spiritual Life, Nature Of
Psalm 36:9For with Thee is a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.
Spiritual Malnutrition
1 Corinthians 3:1-3And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;
Spiritual Maturity
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
Spiritual Mothers
1 Peter 3:6as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him 'sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,
Spiritual Offspring
Galatians 3:29and if ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and according to promise -- heirs.
Spiritual Perception
Mark 2:8And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, 'Why these things reason ye in your hearts?
Spiritual Progress
Job 17:9And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
Spiritual Striving
Philippians 1:27Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,
Spiritual Treasures
2 Corinthians 4:7And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
Spiritual Understanding
Hebrews 13:12-13Wherefore, also Jesus -- that he might sanctify through his own blood the people -- without the gate did suffer;
Spiritual Vitality
2 Thessalonians 1:3We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;
Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:12because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
Spiritual Warfare, Armour
Psalm 28:7-8Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.
Spiritual Warfare, As Conflict
Ephesians 6:12because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;
Spiritual Warfare, Causes Of
2 Peter 2:4For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,
Spiritual Warfare, Enemies In
James 4:4Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
Strength, Spiritual
Ephesians 6:10As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;
That Which Is Spiritual
John 4:24God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
Victory, Over Spiritual Forces
Hebrews 4:15for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;
Wardrobe, Spiritual
Romans 13:12the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
Weakness, Spiritual
2 Corinthians 12:10wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
