Thematic Bible: Preparation steps required in
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride
Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,
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The Pharisee stood [and] prayed these [things] with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people--swindlers, unrighteous [people], adulterers, or even like this tax collector!
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Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.
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'I [am] clean, without transgression; I [am] pure, and [there is] no guilt in me.
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But some have become arrogant, as [if] I were not coming to you.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Abandonment of idols
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If with all your heart you [are] turning to Yahweh, remove the foreign gods and Ashtoreths from your midst. Commit your hearts to Yahweh and serve him alone. Then he will deliver you from the hand of [the] Philistines."
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Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God."
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Cleansing of God's temple
and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Personal purification
Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these [things], he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Returning unto the lord
And he will go on before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready."
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