Thematic Bible: Encouraged
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Brotherly kindness » Encouraged
Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,
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they are to show that your faith when tested is found to be more precious than gold, which though it is perishable is tested with fire, and they will bring you praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
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As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.
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Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.
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You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
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and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time. Rejoice over this, although just now perhaps distressed by various trials;
Charity » Encouraged
And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.
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Cleanliness » Encouraged
But when you fast, perfume your hair and wash your face,
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let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.
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Confession of sin » Encouraged
If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.
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Forbearance » Encouraged
You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.
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You must bear with one another and forgive one another, if anyone has reason to be offended with anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.
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It will bear anything, believe anything, hope for anything, endure anything.
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with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another lovingly.
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God » Love to » Encouraged
and keep in the love of God, and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.
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And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'
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May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.
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Good for evil » Examples of returning » Encouraged
But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.
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Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always try to treat one another and everybody with kindness.
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No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head!
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But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,
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"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In love
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,
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and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Select readings
I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension. For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food. For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant. read more.
But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.
But full-grown men have a right to solid food, for their faculties are trained by practice to distinguish right and wrong.
Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God, with the teaching of baptism and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment. And we will advance if God permits it. read more.
For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age, and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt. Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing. But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned. But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation. For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do. But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope, so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises. For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself, and said, "I will certainly bless you richly, and greatly increase your numbers." And so after waiting patiently, he received what God had promised him. For men make oath by something greater than themselves, and they accept an oath as settling finally any disagreement they may have.
For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age, and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt. Ground that drinks in frequent showers and produces vegetation that is of use to those for whom it is cultivated receives God's blessing. But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned. But about you, dear friends, even though we say this, we are sure of better things that promise salvation. For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do. But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope, so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises. For when God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to make oath by, he did so by himself, and said, "I will certainly bless you richly, and greatly increase your numbers." And so after waiting patiently, he received what God had promised him. For men make oath by something greater than themselves, and they accept an oath as settling finally any disagreement they may have.
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Into Christ
We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.
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so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Formation
For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Through "the word"
and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,
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Humiliation and self-affliction » Encouraged
Humility » Encouraged
You younger men must show deference to the elders. And you must all clothe yourselves in humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud, but shows mercy to the humble.
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Have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
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But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the poorest place, so that when your host comes in, he will say to you, 'My friend, come to a better place.' So you will be shown consideration before all the other guests.
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By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.
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That is true; but it was for their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you stand where you do. You ought not to feel proud; you ought to be afraid,
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will raise you up
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But you are not to do so, but whoever is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and the leader like a servant.
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Instruction » Of children encouraged » Encouraged
Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.
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and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,
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This is what you must urge and teach.
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Justice » Encouraged
You who are masters must treat your slaves justly and fairly, and remember that you have a Master too, in heaven.
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Pay them all what is due them??ribute to the man entitled to receive it, taxes to the man entitled to receive them, respect to the man entitled to it, and honor to the man entitled to it.
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Kindness » Encouraged
Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,
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they are to show that your faith when tested is found to be more precious than gold, which though it is perishable is tested with fire, and they will bring you praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
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As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.
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Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.
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You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
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and you by God's power are being protected through faith to receive a salvation that is now ready to be disclosed at the last time. Rejoice over this, although just now perhaps distressed by various trials;
Leaders » Preaching » Encouraged
And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.
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What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.
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And as you go about, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
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preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.
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Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!"
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and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.
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"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."
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Longsuffering » Encouraged
Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.
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Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation,
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preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.
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But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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through my purity of life, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness, my holiness of spirit, my genuine love,
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Love » Good for evil examples of returning » Encouraged
But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.
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Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always try to treat one another and everybody with kindness.
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No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head!
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But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,
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"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well,
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Loyalty » Encouraged
Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him,
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Remind men to accept and obey the constituted authorities, to be ready for any useful service,
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Mercy » Encouraged
No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head! Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.
Ministers » Work of preaching » Encouraged
And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.
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What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.
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And as you go about, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
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preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.
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Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!"
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and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.
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"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."
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Patience » Encouraged
We beg you, brothers, warn the idlers, cheer up the despondent, keep hold of the weak, be patient with everybody.
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It is by your endurance that you will win your souls.
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Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.
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and steadfastness must have full play, so that you may be fully and perfectly developed without any defects.
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So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.
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and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,
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knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,
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Teach the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible??en of vigorous faith, love, and steadfastness.
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but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.
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Praise » Encouraged » Heavenly
Suddenly there appeared with the angel a throng of the heavenly army, praising God, saying, "Glory to God in heaven and on earth! Peace to the men he favors!"
They were singing a new song before the throne and the four animals and the elders, and no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been ransomed from the earth.
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saying, "We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, who are and were, because you have assumed your great power and begun to reign.
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The four animals have each of them six wings, and they are covered with eyes all over and underneath their wings. And day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is coming."
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Then in my vision I heard the voices of many angels surrounding the throne, the animals, and the elders, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying in a loud voice, "The Lamb that was slaughtered deserves to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honor, glory, and blessing."
Then all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!"
And there came a voice from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all you slaves of his, high and low, who fear him!"
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Praise » Encouraged » Nature's
Praise » Encouraged » Universal
Praise » Encouraged » Perpetually
In his name let us continually offer praise as our sacrifice to God??he utterance of lips that glorify God's name.
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Praise » Encouraged » Four-fold reason for
But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;
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Praise » Encouraged » With musical instruments
Praise » Encouraged » In song
Prayer » Boldness in » Encouraged
So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.
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Purification of heart » Cleansing, spiritual » Encouraged
Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!
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So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.
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And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'
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So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be put to great uses, consecrated and used by the master of the house himself, and ready for any good use.
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And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.
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You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.
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Quietness » Encouraged
yours must be the inner beauty of character, the imperishable attraction of a quiet and gentle spirit, which has great value in the sight of God.
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in striving to live quietly and mind your own affairs, and work with your hands, as we directed you,
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for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.
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Now with the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ we charge and exhort such people to keep quiet and do their work and earn their own living.
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Religious » Support of unfaithful » Encouraged
And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.
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What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.
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And as you go about, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
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preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.
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Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!"
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and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.
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"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."
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Restitution » Encouraged
Righteousness » Encouraged
Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail,
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But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
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But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."
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For I tell you that unless your uprightness is far superior to that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
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Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.
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with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.
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Sanctification » Encouraged
It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,
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May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.
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Self-examination » Encouraged
It is yourselves you must test, to see whether you are holding to the faith. It is yourselves you must examine. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is within you? Unless you fail to stand the test!
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Sin » Confession of » Encouraged
If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.
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Social duties » Fidelity in business » Justice » The poor » Encouraged
Spiritual » Encouraged » In love
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,
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and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Into Christ
We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.
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so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.
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Spiritual » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Formation
For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,
Spiritual » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Through "the word"
and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,
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teaching » Spirit as » Encouraged
Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.
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and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,
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This is what you must urge and teach.
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Thanksgiving » Encouraged
Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.
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always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.
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For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,
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Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.
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Witnessing to the truth » Encouraged
and you must bear testimony too, because you have been with me from the first.
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but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."
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This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.
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"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life." And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.
One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, "Do not be afraid! Go on speaking and do not give up, for I am with you, and no one shall attack you or injure you, for I have many people in this city."
and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak, for you shall be his witness before all men of what you have seen and heard.
Works, good » Encouraged » Insufficient to secure salvation
For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
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And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,
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but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.
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Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?' Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'
For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.
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But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.
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But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed, he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,
Works, good » Encouraged » Examples of
I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors.
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Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.
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For when I was hungry, you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger, you invited me to your homes, when I had no clothes, you gave me clothes, when I was sick, you looked after me, when I was in prison, you came to see me.'
for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table. When his disciples saw it, they said indignantly, "What was the use of wasting it like that?
But Jesus observed this and said to them, "Why do you bother the woman? It is a fine thing that she has done to me.
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Works, good » Encouraged » Furnish a pattern for imitation
He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.
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This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.
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In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,
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Works, good » Encouraged » Glorify God
Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.
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so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.
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Works, good » Encouraged » Demonstrate the reality of faith
Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.
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So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead. But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds.
Works, good » Encouraged » Enriched life
Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,
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Works, good » Encouraged » Tend to summons others to their tasks
By observing one another, let us arouse ourselves to rival one another's love and good deeds.
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Zeal » The Call of Duty » Encouraged
But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,
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I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.
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So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.
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not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.
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For this reason I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift that you received when I laid my hands upon you.
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Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder,
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