Thematic Bible: Preparation steps required in
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.
Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains.
I am clean without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me;
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Abandonment of idols
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye return to Jehovah with all your heart, put away the strange gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and apply your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Cleansing of God's temple
And they gathered their brethren, and hallowed themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Personal purification
If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, in separating himself from them, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Returning unto the lord
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to the thoughts of just men, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.