56 Bible Verses about Orthodoxy, In Nt

if you have indeed heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus,

And the Word became flesh and tabernacled with us and we beheld his glory, a glory as of an only child with a father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.

For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man; for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ. But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.read more.
As we said before I now also say again, If any one preaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be accursed.

we did not yield to them by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

on account of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the true word of the gospel which is present with you as also in all the world, and is fruitful and increases, as also with you, from the day that you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men, fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.

declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

For I delivered to you at first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God; but he abased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man,read more.
and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross. Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

of which I was made a herald and an apostle,?? speak the truth, I lie not,?? teacher of nations in faith and truth.

Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.

O Timothy, keep the trust, turning away from profane and empty words, and contradictions of mis-named science, which some having professed have erred from the faith. The grace be with you.

By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. And this is the [spirit] of anti-christ, of which you have heard that he is coming, and he is now in the world already.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God.

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and every one who loves the Father loves also the Son who is born to him.

but when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will lead you in all the truth; for he will not speak of himself, but he will speak whatever he shall hear, and tell you things to come.

the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it beholds it not nor knows it; but you know it, because it continues with you, and shall be in you.

But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me;

And the anointing which you received from him continues in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; but as his anointing teaches you of all things, and is true and is not a lie, even as it has taught you, continue in him.

And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved; but he that does good comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, for they are wrought in God.

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done.

Be followers of me as I also am of Christ.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,

He that says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he walked.

If you love me, keep my commandments;

If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love.

And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

You believe that there is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble.

What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked, or destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit?read more.
So also faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by works.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name performed many mighty works? and then will I confess to them, I never knew you; depart from me you that commit wickedness.

And then if any one says to you, Behold the Christ is here! Behold there! believe it not. For false prophets shall arise, and perform miracles and wonders, to deceive, if possible, the elect.

and many false prophets shall be raised up and deceive many,

But in vain do they worship me, teaching teachings and commandments of men.

but in vain do they worship me, teaching for teachings the commandments of men;

for leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men. And he said to them, Well do you reject the commandment of God, to keep your tradition;

And he answered and said to them, Why do you transgress the command of God by your tradition?

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons, [misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized,

for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear, and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to myths.

which some having missed turned aside to vain words, desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety, he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions, and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not. A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.read more.
This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction; and many shall follow their lewdness, on account of whom the way of truth shall be reviled,

STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude. Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you are circumcised Christ will not profit you. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to perform the whole law.read more.
You have departed from Christ, whoever of you are justified by the law, you have fallen from the grace. For we wait in spirit for the hope of righteousness, by faith. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. You ran well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not of him that calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole mass. I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will not be of another mind; but he that troubles you shall bear his sin, whoever he is. And I, brothers, if I preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the cross ceased. I would that they were cut off that disturb you.

For we Jews by race and not sinners of the gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if seeking to be justified by Christ we are found to be ourselves also sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? By no means.read more.
For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For by a law I have died to the law, that I may live to God. I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not reject the grace of God; for if rightousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

But profane and vain words, avoid; for they greatly increase impiety, and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection has passed already, and overturn the faith of some.

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.