21 Bible Verses about process

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

Why, what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?

Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.

The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.

For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;

and to get yourselves renewed in the temper of your minds and clothe yourselves

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

For where there is a legal 'will,' there must also be a death brought forward in evidence--the death of him who made it.

Because I will be merciful to their wrongdoings, and their sins I will remember no longer.'"

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.

I do not say that I have already won the race or have already reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me.

For the time has come for judgement to begin, and to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?

And be yourselves also like living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house, to become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.