40 Bible Verses about Living For God
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For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.
For, if we live, our life is for the Master, and, if we die, our death is for the Master. Whether, then, we live or die we belong to the Master.
He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.
Do not you know that you are God's Temple, and that God's Spirit has his home in you?
All can see that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, a letter written, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God, not on 'tablets of stone,' but on 'tablets of human hearts.'
For you are all Sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.
Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God;
And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
And in the very place where it was said to them-"Ye are not my People", they shall be called Sons of the Living God.'
'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men, but of living."
The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).
There is not one of us whose life concerns himself alone, and not one of us whose death concerns himself alone;
but in case I should be delayed, I want you to know what your conduct ought to be in the Household of God, which is the Church of the Living God--the pillar and stay of the Truth.
Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.
Since our Life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit.
and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.
For in it there is a revelation of the Divine Righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as Scripture says- -'Through faith the righteous man shall find Life.'
And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.
For, just as the Father has inherent Life within him, so also he has granted to the Son to have inherent Life within him;
I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.
As the Living Father sent me as his Messenger, and as I live because the Father lives, so he who takes me for his food shall live because I live.
Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?
And, whatever you say or do, do everything in the Name of the Lord Jesus; and through him offer thanksgiving to God the father.
So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the Good News should get their living from the Good News.
To the Immortal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
After three days and a half 'the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up upon their feet,' and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.
We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life.
You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ;
Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,
and is based on the hope of Immortal Life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began,
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