57 Bible Verses about Spiritual Vitality

We always have to thank God for you, brothers, as it is right that we should, because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Cultivate these things, devote yourself to them, so that everyone will see your progress.

For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love.

You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

For I have set you an example, in order that you may do what I have done to you.

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship. You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

You must follow my example in this, as I am following Christ's.

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

I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,

And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, for though our message brought you great trouble, you welcomed it with joy inspired by the holy Spirit,

That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps.

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have been victorious over the evil one.

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

That was why, when I could not bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for I was afraid that the tempter might have tempted you and all our labor might be lost.

For because he has himself been tempted in what he has suffered he is able to help others who are in trial.

You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness,

Because you have kept in mind the message of what I endured, I also will keep you safe in the time of testing that is going to come upon the whole world, to test the inhabitants of the earth.

Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.

You must submit to it as discipline. God is dealing with you as his sons. For where is there a son whom his father does not discipline? But if you have none of that discipline which all sons undergo, you are illegitimate children, and not true sons. When our earthly fathers disciplined us we treated them with respect; should we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so have life?read more.
For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness. Discipline is never pleasant at the time; it is painful; but to those who are trained by it, it afterward yields the peace of character.

I advise you to buy of me gold that has been tested with fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes to put on, to keep your shameful nakedness from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see. I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.

Be on the watch. Stand firm in your faith. Act like men. Show yourselves strong.

Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength.

So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus.

Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit,

I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings. For the physical cravings are against the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are against the physical; the two are in opposition, so that you cannot do anything you please. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not subject to law.

for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction??ou know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.

I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach. For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

And the child grew up and became strong and thoughtful, with God's blessing resting on him.

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.

And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers, in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ, until we all attain unity in faith, and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and reach mature manhood, and that full measure of development found in Christ.read more.
We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error. We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.

so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality, that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives, not to gratify his passion, like the heathen who know nothing of God.read more.
No one is to wrong or defraud his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all such things, as we told you before, in the most solemn terms. God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

This is why I, for my part, since I have heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus that prevails among you and among all God's people,

God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith.

for what we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love you have for all God's people, and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel

The aim of your instruction must be love that springs from a pure heart and from a good conscience and from a sincere faith.

Goodbye, and the Lord be with you always. Again I say, goodbye. Let all men see your forbearing spirit. The Lord is coming soon. Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.read more.
Then, through your union with Christ Jesus, the peace of God, so far above any human thought, will guard your minds and thoughts.

Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.

Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you, but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy.

so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

but we who belong to the day must be composed, wearing faith and love for a coat of mail, and helmeted with the hope of salvation.

but holding the divine truth of the faith with a clear conscience.

As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.

Whoever is destined for captivity will go into captivity; whoever kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. On this fact rests the endurance and fidelity of God's people.