Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Grace of God » Growth in
Confident of this same, that he having begun a good work in you will complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
Night and day praying exceedingly to see your face, and to adjust things wanting of your faith?
And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.
And grow ye in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him the glory now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.
We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another;
They will go from strength to strength, being seen in Zion to God.
And this I prey, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all intelligence; For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ; Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus. read more.
Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.
Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you.
For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy.
And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you: To make your hearts firm, complete in holiness before God, and our Father, in the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.
Therefore having left the word of the beginning of Christ, we should go on to perfection; not again laying down the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God even permit.
Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies, As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it: If ye have tasted that the Lord is good.
Paul » Characteristics of » Entire consecration
And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.
But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ. But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ, And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith: read more.
To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death; If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead. Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death; If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead. Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
Perfection » Saints follow after
The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.
Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.
Perfection » Saints claim not
If I shall be just, my mouth shall condemn me: I am blameless, and he will declare me perverse.
Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus.
The Roman empire » Allusions to grecian game adapted by » Foot races
Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.
Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.
Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us, Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.
If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead. Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, read more.
I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.