Luke 2:14

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men of good will!"

John 15:8

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye will become my disciples.

Romans 6:19

I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Ephesians 3:20-21

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

1 Peter 2:9-10

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

1 Peter 4:11

If any one speak, let him speak as uttering the oracles of God; if any minister, let him do it as from the ability which God giveth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Bible References

Of the thorn

Romans 6:19
I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.