Thematic Bible: Preparation steps required in
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride
You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
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The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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Jesus replied: If you were blind you would have no sin. But you say we see so your sin remains.
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I am pure and without sin! I am clean and free from guilt.
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Now some have become proud (arrogant), thinking that I would not come to you.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Abandonment of idols
Samuel told the entire nation of Israel: If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts you must get rid of the foreign gods you have, including the statues of the goddess Astarte. You must dedicate your lives to Jehovah and serve him only. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.
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Regardless of this, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah that people worshiped. You have tried to follow God's will.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Cleansing of God's temple
These men gathered their relatives and performed the ceremonies to make themselves holy. They obeyed the king's order from Jehovah's word and entered the Temple to make it clean.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Personal purification
If anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
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Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Returning unto the lord
He will go before God in the spirit and power of Elijah. He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness. This will make ready a people whose hearts have been directed to Jehovah (YHWH). (Malachi 3:1)
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