70 Bible Verses about Spiritual Vitality

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way,
And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,

the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.

For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?read more.
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

“I am going the way of all the earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man.

But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.”

Say to those with anxious heart,
“Take courage, fear not.
Behold, your God will come with vengeance;
The recompense of God will come,
But He will save you.”

But now take courage, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord, ‘take courage also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land take courage,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ declares the Lord of hosts.

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.

You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.

And the child continued to grow and to become strong in spirit, and he lived in the deserts until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.read more.
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;read more.
and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints,

Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints; because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.read more.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

But let all who take refuge in You be glad,
Let them ever sing for joy;
And may You shelter them,
That those who love Your name may exult in You.

But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

For our heart rejoices in Him,
Because we trust in His holy name.

And the ransomed of the Lord will return
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
With everlasting joy upon their heads.
They will find gladness and joy,
And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints.