30 Bible Verses about Being Positive

and to be renewed in your mind, by living like men formed anew,

for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving:

to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

for this reason I shall never omit to put you in mind of these things, however knowing you are already, and settled in the truth.

or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

Finally, brethren, be cheerful: redress yourselves, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded.

let no man consult only his private interest, but let every man consult likewise the interest of others.

But tell me, you that are so willing to be under the law, why don't you consider the law?

when the full time of the dispensation was come, to reduce all things both in heaven and on earth, under one head in Christ.

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:

for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Either allow the tree to be good, and its fruit good; or else say the tree is corrupt, and its fruit corrrupt: for a tree is distinguished by its fruit.

but all do not obey the gospel. for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

This then is the commission we have from him, to declare unto you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness.

for these were only the shadows of future things, prefiguring Christ, who is the substance.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

When you did not know God, you did service to those, who in reality are no Gods; but now that you know God,

For this cause, ever since we heard of it, we incessantly pray for you, requesting that you may be endued with respect to the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual discernment:

"don't eat this, don't taste that, nor touch it:"

my beloved, don't imitate vice, but virtue. he that does good, is a child of God: he that does evil, is not acquainted with God.

such solid nourishment is only fit for such as are arriv'd at their full growth and strength, whose senses have been exercis'd in distinguishing what is good, and what is prejudicial.

Don't be deluded, my brethren;

Now faith is the foundation of our hopes of happiness, and the persuasion we have about things not evident to our senses.

that valuable depositum do you preserve by the holy spirit, which resides in us.

may the divine favour and felicity be poured upon you, by the knowledge of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ.

that being capable to distinguish what is best, you may remain stedfastly sincere until the day of Christ,

or figs of thistles? so every good tree yields good fruit: but a corrupt tree yields bad fruit.

if we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lye, and do not act sincerely: