30 Bible Verses about Being Positive

and to be renewed in your inner person.

For everything created by God is permitted [to be eaten] and nothing should be refused, if it is received with gratitude,

All of you there in Rome [i.e., the church there] are also among such obedient believers. You are called Jesus Christ's [people], loved by God and called to be His holy people. May you have unearned favor and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, I intend to constantly remind you people about these things [i.e., those mentioned in verses 5-11], even though you [already] know them, and have been established in the truth you now possess.

What I mean is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

Finally, brothers, good-bye [or, "be glad"]. Be fully restored [spiritually]. Be comforted [or, "exhort one another"]. Think alike on things. Be at peace among yourselves. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

They want to be teachers of the law of Moses, even though they do not understand what they are saying or what they are affirming with [such] confidence.

Each of you should not look out for your own interests [only], but also for those of other people.

Tell me, those of you who desire to be under [obligation to the requirements of] the law of Moses: Are you really paying attention to what the law of Moses says?

[He did this] to fulfill His plan at the proper time, by bringing together everything [in the universe] under Christ's headship --- things both in heaven and on earth.

You should think about things the way Christ Jesus did.

for wherever [you store] your valuables, that is where your heart [i.e., your real concern] will be also.

Either be a healthy tree and produce wholesome fruit, or be a diseased tree and produce rotten fruit, for [the quality of] a tree will be recognized by [the quality of] its fruit.

So, faith results from [people] hearing, and [their] hearing results from [the preaching of] the message about Christ.

Little children [i.e., dear ones], we should not [merely] claim to love [people], or [even just] talk about it, but [we should love] by what we do [for them] in a genuine way.

And this is the message we heard from Him, and [now want to] announce to you: God is light [i.e. righteousness] and in His [very nature] there is no trace of darkness [i.e., evil].

These things are [only] a shadow of future things, but the body [i.e., the real substance of things] belongs to Christ. [Note: The idea here is that the ritual observances of the Mosaic law were like shadows pointing to the reality of life in Christ].

still we know that a person is not justified [i.e., made right with God] by [perfect obedience to] the law of Moses, but rather through faith in [the person and work of] Christ. [Knowing this] we have trusted in Christ Jesus [to save us], so that we might be made right with God by trusting in Him and not by [our compliance with] the requirements of the law of Moses. Because by such law-compliance no one can be made right with God.

At that time, when you did not know God [as your Father], you were in bondage to those who were, by nature, not really gods at all.

So, this is why, since the day we heard about these things, we do not stop praying for you and requesting that you people be filled [by God] with the knowledge of what He wants [for your lives], and with spiritual wisdom and understanding.

"Do not handle [this]; do not taste [that]; do not touch [those things]?"

Dear [friend], do not imitate what is evil, but [only] what is good. The person who does what is good is [a child] of God; the one who does evil has not seen God [spiritually].

But "solid food" is for mature people, who because of using their [spiritual] senses, have become able to distinguish good from evil.

[So], do not be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

Now, [having] faith is being sure of [receiving] what is hoped for, and certain [of the existence] of what is not visible.

[Also] guard that precious treasure [i.e., the Gospel message] which was entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit, who lives in us.

[May God's] unearned favor and peace be yours in abundance, through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.

Then you will be able to approve of [only] what is best and be sincere and without just blame on the day of Christ's [return],

In a similar way, every healthy tree produces wholesome fruit; but a diseased tree produces [only] bad fruit.

If we claim to share a relationship with God and yet live in darkness [i.e., in a sinful way], we are lying and are not living a truthful life.