Matthew 1:23
'Behold! the virgin shall be with child and shall give birth to a son, And they will give him the name Immanuel'--a word which means 'God is with us.'
Matthew 7:13-14
Go in by the small gate. Broad and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and those that go in by it are many;
John 7:17
If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.
John 14:6
Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.
2 Timothy 1:9
It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,
Titus 2:11-14
For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all;
Hebrews 10:20-23
by the way which he inaugurated for us--a new and living way, a way through the Sanctuary Curtain (that is, his human nature);
Hebrews 12:14
Try earnestly to live at peace with every one, and to attain to that purity without which no one will see the Lord.
1 Peter 1:14-15
Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,
1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are 'a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, God's own People,' entrusted with the proclamation of the goodness of him who called you out of Darkness into his wonderful Light.
2 Peter 3:13
but we look for 'new heavens and a new earth,' where righteousness shall have its home, in fulfillment of the promise of God.
1 John 2:20
You, however, have received consecration from the Holy One.
1 John 2:27
But you--you still retain in your hears that consecration which you received from the Christ, and are not in need of any one to teach you; but, since his consecration of you teaches you about everything, and since it is a real consecration, and no lie, then, as it has taught you, maintain your union with him.
Revelation 7:15-17
And therefore it is that they are before the throne of God, and are serving him day and night in his Temple; and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.
Revelation 21:27
'Never shall any unhallowed thing enter it,' nor he whose life is shameful and false, but only 'those whose names have been written in the Lamb's Book of Life.'