114 Bible Verses about Spiritual
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But not the spiritual first, but the natural; afterward the spiritual.
These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.
If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
Follow after charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.
From Thematic Bible
Adorning » Spiritual » General references
The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is trimmed with gold.
for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.
She shall give to your hand an ornament of grace; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.
I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Adorning » Spiritual » White raiment, the heavenly garment
But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they desired. Likewise also the Son of Man shall suffer from them.
The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
And around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white clothing. And they had crowns of gold on their heads.
After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands.
Adorning » Spiritual » The robe of righteousness, the saint's adorning
I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.
I also will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For never again shall come to you uncircumcised and unclean ones.
And He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy clothes from him. And to him He said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes.
Armour » Spiritual » Weapons and armour of the saints
Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
in the Word of Truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Assurance » Spiritual
For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water.
that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.
Beauty » Spiritual
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
Give to Jehovah the glory of His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness.
Give to Jehovah the glory due to His name; worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness.
And cause the King greatly to desire your beauty, for He is your Lord, and you shall worship Him.
And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be on us; and establish the work of our hands on us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it.
Boasting » Spiritual
To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.
Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves. A man cannot at all redeem a brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever, read more.
yea, he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption.
They gush; they speak impudent things; all the workers of iniquity speak proudly.
And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them, do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you. You will say then, The branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. read more.
Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either!
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the preaching of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones." read more.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness. But to them, the called-out ones, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are; so that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption; so that, according as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."
Body » Resurrection of » Spiritual
who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And according as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven;
When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Brethren » Spiritual » The family of God
For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.
But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers.
And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you have done it to Me.
Christ » Words of characteristics of » Spiritual
It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Circumcision » Spiritual
in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,
Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stiff-necked.
And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and people of Jerusalem; lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that none can put it out; because of the evil of your doings.
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Clothing » Spiritual » White raiment, the heavenly garment
But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they desired. Likewise also the Son of Man shall suffer from them.
The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
And around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white clothing. And they had crowns of gold on their heads.
After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands.
Clothing » Spiritual » The robe of righteousness, the saint's adorning
I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my judgment was like a robe and a diadem.
I also will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For never again shall come to you uncircumcised and unclean ones.
And He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy clothes from him. And to him He said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes.
Consequences of sin » death » Physical » Spiritual » Separation from God
But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.
to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.
Israel has sinned, and they have also broken My covenant which I commanded them, and have even taken of the cursed things, and have also stolen and pretended falsely. And they have even put it among their own stuff. And the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They will turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again, unless you destroy the one who is cursed from among you.
And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities.
Darkness » Spiritual
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.
Deafness » Spiritual
And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are not circumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.
Dearth » Spiritual
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.
For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.
death » Spiritual
Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
death » Spiritual » Of the wicked
But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?
They shall die from deaths of diseases; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried. But they shall be as dung on the face of the earth. And they shall be destroyed by the sword and by famine; and their bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Debtors » Spiritual
for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the foreigners, both to the wise and to the unwise.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.
By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Diligence » Spiritual
Do you not say, It is yet four months, and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already.
For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
Brothers, truly my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for it to be saved.
if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them.
Enlightenment » Spiritual
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and darkness.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together; Jehovah gives light to the eyes of both.
Feasts » Of new moons » Spiritual
And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God.
And as they ate, Jesus took a loaf and blessed and broke it, and He gave to them and said, Take, eat; this is My body.
Again he sent out other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage.
And in this mountain Jehovah of Hosts shall make a feast of fat things for all the people, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of refined wine on the lees.
Fulness » Spiritual » Warnings against worldly fulness
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You grew fat, thick, and satisfied. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of blessing
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.
Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, to see if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you, and pour out a blessing for you, until there is not enough room.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of joy
I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.
And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of the spirit
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of wisdom
For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of God
and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.
Fulness » Spiritual » The overflowing cup
You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Christ, the saviour
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.
Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a Leader and Commander of peoples.
I Jehovah have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you that bread from Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from Heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world.
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Faith
For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Wisdom
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Repentance
When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Grace
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Christ the chief of
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.
Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a Leader and Commander of peoples.
I Jehovah have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you that bread from Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from Heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Rest
and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,
Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Faith
For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,
For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Are through Christ
You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts for men, yes, for the rebellious also, that You might dwell among them, O Jehovah God.
But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Therefore He says, "When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive and gave gifts to men."
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Pray for
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?
Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Wisdom
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Glory
For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one,
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Grace
For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » The holy ghost
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
But Peter said to him, May your silver perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Righteousness
And the free gift shall not be as by one having sinned; (for indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses to justification. For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » A new heart
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » To be used for mutual profit
each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Not repented of by him
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Strength and power
O God, You are overwhelming out of Your holy places; the God of Israel is He who gives strength and powers to the people. Blessed is God.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Eternal life
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Peace
Jehovah will give strength to His people; Jehovah will bless His people with peace.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Repentance
When they heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, Then God has also granted repentance to life to the nations.
Glory » Spiritual » Is the work of the holy ghost
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
Glory » Spiritual » Is given by God
For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Glory » Spiritual » Is given by Christ
And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one,
Glory » Spiritual » Is the work of the holy spirit
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
Good » Tidings » Spiritual
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, making peace heard; who brings good news, making salvation heard; who says to Zion, Your God reigns!
And answering, the angel said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands before God. And I am sent to speak to you and to show you these glad tidings.
Go up for yourself on the high mountain, bringer of good tidings to Zion. Lift up your voice with strength, O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem; lift up, do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Behold upon the mountains the feet of Him who brings good news, making it heard, Peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, fulfill your vows; for the wicked shall pass through you no more; he is completely cut off.
Healing » Spiritual
Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed, save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my praise.
"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,
Return, O backsliding sons, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.
Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.
Heirs » Spiritual » Spiritual
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.
So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?
Heritage » Spiritual
in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you
And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
Hope » Spiritual » Abides forever
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,
And now faith, hope, charity, these three remain; but the greatest of these is charity.
Hope » Spiritual » Enabled abraham to become the father of the faithful
And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.
For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be").
Hope » Spiritual » Believers called to testify concerning
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;
Hope » Spiritual » The scriptures the source of
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
Hope » Spiritual » The saving element in life
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?
Hope » Spiritual » Inspires to clean living
And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.
Hunger » Spiritual
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,
For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
But they do not know the plans of Jehovah, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the floor.
Imitation » Of worldly people and customs condemned » Spiritual
Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.
Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:
(not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).
Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.
Inheritance » Earthly » Spiritual
in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you
And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
The law of God » Described as » Spiritual
Life » Spiritual
The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.
And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes on Me shall never thirst.
But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.
Life » Spiritual » Spotless, general references to
that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast and shall not fear;
Life » Spiritual » Necessitates death to sin and self
I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.
and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.
For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.
Life » Spiritual » Secured through faith
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My Word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.
And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Life » Spiritual » Christ the supreme object of
For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.
Life » Spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live.
Life » Spiritual » Love the demonstration of
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
Men » Spiritual » Evil men put to silence
in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him shall glory; but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.
The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop its mouth.
so that you may remember and be ashamed; and it will not be possible to open your mouth any more because of your shame; in that I am propitiated for all that you have done, says the Lord Jehovah.
Mind » Spiritual
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
Nation » Spiritual » Sins of
And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah and against you. Pray to Jehovah that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
And I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God. For our iniquities have increased over our heads, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against You, both because we have forsaken our God and also have served the Baals.
And they were gathered to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.
Nation » Spiritual » The righteous cultivate the spirit of
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding quiets great sinners.
But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient.
Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord;
Nation » Spiritual » Rebellion against
And whoever will not do the Law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it is to death, or to exile, or to confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.
Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories.
and that who ever would not come within three days, according to the advice of the rulers and the elders, all he owned would be lost, and he himself separated from the congregation of the exiles.
And the man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.
So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.
Preparation » Spiritual » Abandonment of idols
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel saying, If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to Jehovah, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
But there are good things found in you, in that you have taken away the Asherahs out of the land and have prepared your heart to seek God.
Preparation » Spiritual » Cleansing of God's temple
And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the command of the king, by the words of Jehovah, to clean the house of Jehovah.
Preparation » Spiritual » Personal purification
Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
Preparation » Spiritual » Returning unto the lord
And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Reputation » Spiritual
For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks. By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. read more.
By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him. For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful. Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called, concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. By faith, Joseph dying remembered concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones. By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments. Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest He who destroyed the first-born should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed seven days. By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers. Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, more, of bonds and imprisonments. They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,
Rest » Spiritual
Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it. For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the Word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. read more.
For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all His works." And in this place again, "They shall not enter into My rest." Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief, He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, "Today," (after so long a time). Even as it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. So then there remains a rest to the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His. Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.
Rivers » Jordan » Spiritual
They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.
There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
And he measured a thousand; and there was a torrent which I was not able to pass; for the water had risen, water to swim in, a torrent that could not be passed.
Sleep » Spiritual » Symbol of death
Look! Answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come out of your bowels. And I will make his kingdom sure.
so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be awakened out of their sleep.
And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not lay this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Sleep » Spiritual » General references to natural
And as he lay and slept under a broom tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said to him, Arise, eat.
And He came to the disciples and found them asleep. And He said to Peter, What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?
Then the seamen were afraid, and each man cried to his god. And they threw out the ship's articles in the ship, into the sea in order to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship; and he lay there, and was fast asleep.
And it happened as the sun was setting, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him!
And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep.
Sleep » Spiritual » Warnings against
even as it is written, "God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing" until this day.
Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early; lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Radiant lives, of the saints
And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the sky; and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever.
so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,
He was a burning and shining light, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp.
Spiritual » Blindness » Examples of
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.
Spiritual » Adoption » Adultery
And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of Jehovah; these did not do so.
And Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel went there lusting after it, which thing became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
And they sinned against the God of their fathers, and went lusting after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
And they were defiled with their works, and went lusting in their doings.
And those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations where they shall be exiled, because I was broken by their whoring heart which has departed from Me, and with their whoring eyes which go after their idols. And they shall despise themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Spiritual » Hunger select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.
With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.
With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Of God
Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),
But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Jehovah has appeared to me from afar, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you.
the Lord opens the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raises those who are bowed down; Jehovah loves the righteous;
Spiritual » Instruction » Examples of spiritual
And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law. And the people were in their place.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla heard him, and they took him and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly.
And in the third year of his reign he sent to his rulers, to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same Scripture and preached the gospel of Jesus to him.
Spiritual » Quickening » General references to spiritual quickening
O Jehovah, I have heard Your report; I am afraid. O Jehovah, give new life to Your work in the midst of years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
O Jehovah, for Your name's sake enliven me; for Your righteousness' sake, bring my soul out of trouble.
So we will not go back from You; make us live, and we will call on Your name.
DALETH: My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to Your Word.
Spiritual » Poverty » Destitution of the truth
meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Food
I am the door. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he who receives it .
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Why do you weigh silver for what is not bread? and your labor for what never satisfies? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he shall live forever. And truly the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Enlightenment, spiritual
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and darkness.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together; Jehovah gives light to the eyes of both.
Spiritual » Enlargement » Enlightenment
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and darkness.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together; Jehovah gives light to the eyes of both.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Brethren
For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like His brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people.
But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers.
And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you have done it to Me.
Spiritual » Hearing » Heritage
in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you
And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » To God encouraged
O love Jehovah, all you saints of His; Jehovah preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Only, diligently take heed to do the commands and the Law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
keep yourselves in the love of God, eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life.
Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Exhortations to those engaged in
I go the way of all the earth. And you be strong and show yourself a man.
But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.
Say to those of a hasty heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the full dealing of God. He will come and save you.
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Jehovah. And be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong all people of the land, says Jehovah, and work; for I am with you, says Jehovah of Hosts
So says Jehovah of Hosts: Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these Words by the mouth of the prophets, that in the day the house of Jehovah of Hosts is founded, the temple is to be built.
Spiritual » Foundation » General references to
Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture: "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him shall never be ashamed."
therefore so says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I place in Zion a Stone for a foundation, a tried Stone, a precious Cornerstone, a sure Foundation; he who believes shall not hurry.
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
For any other foundation can no one lay than the one being laid, who is Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Hearing » Heirs of God
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.
So that you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?
Spiritual » Of God's word sins of » Imitation
Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.
Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:
(not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, to imitate us).
Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Healing of spiritual disease
Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed, save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my praise.
"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,
Return, O backsliding sons, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.
Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.
Spiritual » Refining » The refining influence of afflictions
But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
And I will turn back My hand on you, and purge away your dross as with lye, and take away all your alloy.
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Spiritual » Light » God a light
God is Jehovah, who gives light to us. Tie the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.
And there will be no night there. And they need no lamp, or light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forever and ever.
A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Spiritual » Light » Reflected from believers
so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp.
So let all Your enemies perish, O Jehovah. But let them that love Him be like the sun when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Coming with power
And I heard as the sound of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of strong thunders, saying, Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigns!
And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.
And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other peoples, but it shall crush and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
And He said to them, Truly I say to you that there are some of those who stand here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God come with power.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Kingdom of Christ
These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him are the called and elect and faithful ones.
Truly I say to you, There are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.
that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.
Spiritual » Resurrection » Man, raised from spiritual death
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,
But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.
For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?
Spiritual » Cleansing » Spiritual encouraged
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.
Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
And now what do you intend? Arise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.
Spiritual » Renewal » Man, strengthened and renewed by the holy spirit
For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
Spiritual » Crowns » Darkness
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.
Spiritual » Adoption » Adorning
The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is trimmed with gold.
for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.
She shall give to your hand an ornament of grace; she shall shield you with a crown of glory.
I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Treasures
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.
But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Spiritual » Of children encouraged » Investments
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.
But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,
For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
But they do not know the plans of Jehovah, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the floor.
Spiritual » Cleansing » Composure
and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,
But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.
But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled,
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet.
Spiritual » Temple » General references to
And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,
you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom every building having been fitly framed together, grows into a holy sanctuary in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.
Spiritual » Sowing » Surgery
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),
knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.
in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,
The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom; but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.
Spiritual » Hearing » Spiritual of believers
O Jehovah, I have heard Your report; I am afraid. O Jehovah, give new life to Your work in the midst of years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.
But those on the good ground are the ones who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Kingdom of heaven
For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
The kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who made a marriage for his son.
Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
He put out another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are not circumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Preaching of
to whom He also presented Himself living after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them through forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
But when they believed Philip preaching the gospel, the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
And He said to them, I must proclaim the gospel, the kingdom of God, to other cities, because I was sent on this mission,
And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God,
And it happened afterwards, He traveled in every city and village, proclaiming and announcing the gospel of the kingdom of God. And the Twelve were with Him,
Spiritual » Sowing » Striving
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Walking with God
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
For all peoples will walk, each one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God forever and ever.
And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the Words of this covenant which was written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.
Spiritual » Battles » Beauty
And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband.
Who is she who looks forth like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as armies with banners?
And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; for it was perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord Jehovah.
that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Of whom let not be the adorning of garments, or outward braiding of hair and wearing of gold, or of putting on clothing, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God.
Spiritual » Crowns » Debtors
for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the foreigners, both to the wise and to the unwise.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.
By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » New Birth
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Then Jesus says to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Weapons
And David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,
But He answered and said, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Moses' fellowship with God
And Moses alone shall come near Jehovah, but they shall not come near. Neither shall the people go up with him.
And I will meet with you there, and I will talk with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs on the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the sons of Israel.
And it happened as Moses went into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and Jehovah spoke with Moses.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, You shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel:
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Body
who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And according as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven;
When Christ our Life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Bondage
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever practices sin is the slave of sin.
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.
Spiritual » Sleep » Warnings against
even as it is written, "God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing" until this day.
Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early; lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Dawn, spiritual, the coming of Christ ushers in the
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise, and healing will be on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.
We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,
through the tender mercy of our God; by which the Dayspring from on high has visited us,
Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Harvest
But we should not lose heart in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint.
But when the fruit has been brought out, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.
Then He said to His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
Then He said to them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He may send forth laborers into His harvest.
Spiritual » Crowns » Dawn
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise, and healing will be on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.
We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,
through the tender mercy of our God; by which the Dayspring from on high has visited us,
Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Shining faces, general references to
And He was transfigured before them. And His face shone as the sun, and His clothing was white as the light.
But if the ministry of death, having been engraved in letters in stone was with glory (so that the sons of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his face), which was being done away;
And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face had become luminous. And they were afraid to come near him.
Who is as the wise? And who knows the meaning of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
And none thinks within his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time?
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.
For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.
Spiritual » Kingdom » General references to
Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.
And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual » Progress » A characteristic of the righteous
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.
Spiritual » Power » Fills life with healing influences
For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;
And God did works of power through the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons from his skin being brought onto the sick, the diseases were released, and the evil spirits went out of them.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Sanity
pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ;
And they came to Jesus and saw him who had been demon-possessed, and had the legion, sitting and clothed and right-minded, the one who had the legion. And they were afraid.
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!
Spiritual » Feasts » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God.
And as they ate, Jesus took a loaf and blessed and broke it, and He gave to them and said, Take, eat; this is My body.
Again he sent out other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage.
And in this mountain Jehovah of Hosts shall make a feast of fat things for all the people, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of refined wine on the lees.
Spiritual » Sowing » The blessings of
Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the ass.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
The wicked makes a deceitful wage; but one sowing righteousness has a sure reward.
For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.
Spiritual » Future rest of the saints restoration » Spiritual, of the penitent
Return, O backsliding sons, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to You; for You are Jehovah our God.
I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.
He will turn again; He will have pity on us. He will trample our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
For I will give health back to you, and will heal you of your wounds, says Jehovah; because they called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion; no one is seeking for her.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Circumcision
in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,
Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stiff-necked.
And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and people of Jerusalem; lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that none can put it out; because of the evil of your doings.
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Utterance
And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,
But even as you abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us; you should abound in this grace also.
And pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,
that in everything you are enriched by Him, in all speech and in all knowledge;
Spiritual » Traffic » Exhortations to men to engage in
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there be not enough for us and you. But rather go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Examples of
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.
I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and I know the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, in order that you might be made rich through His poverty.
that in everything you are enriched by Him, in all speech and in all knowledge;
Spiritual » Enlargement » failure
Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,
If anyone's work shall be burned up, he shall suffer loss. But he shall be saved, yet so as by fire.
And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat on that house. And it fell, and great was its fall.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Discernment
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
And give to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people, to discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this, Your great people?
And He is made to breathe in the fear of Jehovah. And He shall not judge according to the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
Butter and honey he shall eat until he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Spiritual » Hearing » Highway
Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people. Raise up! Raise up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The Way of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. But He shall be with them; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err in it.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.
The way of the upright is to turn away from evil; he who keeps his way guards his way.
Set up waymarks, make sign posts for yourself. Set your heart toward the highway, the way you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Spiritual » Adoption » Attraction
Draw me, we will run after You. The King has brought me into his chambers; we will be glad and rejoice in You, we will remember Your love more than wine; the upright love You.
Jehovah has appeared to me from afar, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you.
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as those who take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently give food to him.
No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.
Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, We see. Therefore your sin remains.
You said, I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and no iniquity is in me;
Spiritual » Adoption » Armour
Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
in the Word of Truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Showers
He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.
Then we shall know, if we follow on to know Jehovah. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;
And I will make them, and the places around My hill, a blessing; and I will bring down the shower in its season. There shall be showers of blessing.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Rivers
They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.
There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
And he measured a thousand; and there was a torrent which I was not able to pass; for the water had risen, water to swim in, a torrent that could not be passed.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.
But, in regard to the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon who sent to him to ask about the wonder that was done in the land, God left him in order to try him, to know all that was in his heart.
In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, Ask what I shall give you!
Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,
O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.
Spiritual » Renewal » Reputation
For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks. By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. read more.
By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went. By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him. For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful. Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they who say such things declare plainly that they seek a fatherland. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, of whom it was said that in Isaac your Seed shall be called, concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from where he even received him, in a figure. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. By faith, Joseph dying remembered concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones. By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments. Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest He who destroyed the first-born should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed seven days. By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers. Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, more, of bonds and imprisonments. They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, did not receive the promise,
Spiritual » Light » General references to
and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday.
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Disease
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?
Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For so says Jehovah, Your break cannot be cured, and your wound is grievous.
For her wounds are not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.
When Jesus heard, He said to them, They who are strong have no need of a physician, but the ones who have illness. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Times of spiritual refreshing
And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.
My boldness of speech is great toward you; my glorying on your behalf is much. I have been filled with comfort, I am overflowing with joy on all our trouble.
And when they had come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.
And Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed Christ to them. And the people with one accord gave heed to those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the many miracles which he did.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?
I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah; and Your Law is my delight.
I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts after You like a thirsty land. Selah.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Heirship with Christ entailed in
And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.
And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God."
For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Heirship with Christ entailed in
And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.
And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God."
For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
Spiritual » Receptivity » General references to
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. And the same day there were added about three thousand souls.
But that sown on the good ground is this: he who hears the Word and understands; who also bears fruit and produces one truly a hundredfold; and one sixty; and one thirty.
And these were more noble than those of Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily to see if those things were so.
And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received the Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed it as the Word of God, not as a word of men, but as it is, truly the Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.
Spiritual » Hope » Abides forever
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,
And now faith, hope, charity, these three remain; but the greatest of these is charity.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Watchmen
Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent.
Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the Word of My mouth, and give them warning from Me.
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, We will not listen.
Spiritual » Life » Necessitates death to sin and self
I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.
and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.
For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Near at hand
From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
So also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.
Spiritual » Mind » Mind of Christ
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin,
Spiritual » Mind » Spiritual mind
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
Spiritual » Life » Secured through faith
Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My Word and believes on Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.
And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,
And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
No one who wars tangles with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.
But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,
And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Fidelity
For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)
You are those who have continued with Me in My trials. And I appoint a kingdom to you, as My Father has appointed to Me,
Already you are full! Already you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us! And oh that indeed you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Spiritual » Enlargement » Exercise
And going he who had received the five talents traded with them, and made another five talents.
Therefore I remind you to inflame anew the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.
But refuse profane and old-womanish tales, and exercise yourself to godliness.
Spiritual » Encouraged » In love
And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you,
And indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brothers, that you abound more and more,
Spiritual » Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now.
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Abiding in Christ
I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.
But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Spiritual » Talk » Used in everyday life
And you shall carefully teach them to your sons, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Spiritual cleansing
And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of a potter they will be broken to pieces, even as I received from My Father.
even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Spiritual » Liberty » The presence of the spirit secures
And the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
But because of those false brothers stealing in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus; they desiring to enslave us;
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Victory over satan
And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
And there will be no night there. And they need no lamp, or light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forever and ever.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » A spiritual crown
Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he who receives it .
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Without defect
being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Abandonment of idols
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel saying, If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to Jehovah, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
But there are good things found in you, in that you have taken away the Asherahs out of the land and have prepared your heart to seek God.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Endurance
confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.
For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Growth
of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing. For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food. For everyone partaking of milk is unskillful in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant. read more.
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the baptisms, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permits. read more.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come, and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put Him to an open shame. (For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God. But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected and is a curse, whose end is to be burned.) But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this way. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness to the full assurance of hope to the end, that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself, saying, "Surely in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply you." And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men truly swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Spiritual » Encouraged » Into Christ
But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;
that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Spiritual » Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
Do you not say, It is yet four months, and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to life eternal, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;
And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Spiritual » Immaturity » Necessity for tutelage
Even so we, when we were infants, were in bondage under the elements of the world.
But I say, Over so long a time the heir is an infant, he does not differ from a slave, though being lord of all; but he is under guardians and housemasters until the term appointed before by the father.
Spiritual » Labourers » Prayer for the increase of
So when evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and pay them their wage, beginning from the last to the first.
Then He said to His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He will send out laborers into His harvest.
Spiritual » Knowledge » A cause for exultation
but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth; for in these I delight, says Jehovah.
And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.
Spiritual » Life » Christ the supreme object of
For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of glory
Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory.
Spiritual » Life » Sustained by the word of God
Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Sympathetic service
Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me in;
And lifting up His eyes to His disciples, He said, Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin.
And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me.
Spiritual » Rest » Lost by stubbornness
To whom He said, This is the rest; cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. Yet they were not willing to hear.
For so says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and hope shall be your strength. And you were not willing.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Humility
Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Dedication of God's house
And that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced. For God had made them rejoice with great joy. And the wives and the sons rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy. For Jehovah had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to make their hands strong in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Spiritual » Immaturity » Continuance in the primary department
For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of blessing
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.
Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, to see if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you, and pour out a blessing for you, until there is not enough room.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over severest afflictions
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Obedience secures the benefits of
And He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.
For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Peter, the profane fisherman becomes a man whose very shadow heals
Then he began to curse and to swear, I do not know the man. And immediately the cock crowed.
So as to carry out the sick into the streets and place them on cots and mattresses, so that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » John the vindictive jew becomes the apostle of love
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
And they did not receive Him, because His face was going toward Jerusalem. And seeing, His disciples James and John said, Lord, do You desire that we command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Obedience secures the benefits of
And He answered and said to them, My mother and My brothers are those who hear the Word of God and do it.
For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of joy
I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.
And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Spiritual » Rest » True response found in God
And it shall be in the day that Jehovah shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage which was pressed on you,
Return to your rest, O my soul; for Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you.
Spiritual » Rest » The divine presence gives
He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over evil influences of men
Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
And you shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day which I am preparing, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The woman of samaria of unsavoury reputation becomes an evangel of truth
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I have no husband for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. In that you spoke truly.
Come see a man who told me all things that I ever did. Is this One not the Christ?
Spiritual » Hope » Enabled abraham to become the father of the faithful
And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.
For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be").
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The cold-hearted philippian jailer becomes a sympathetic friend
And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed from their stripes. And he was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Eternal life
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning.
And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The death of Christ
In the same way He took the cup also, after supping, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in My blood; as often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me." For "as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show" the Lord's death until He shall come.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the followers of Christ
Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the obedient
You shall also order a thing, and it shall be fulfilled to you; and the light shall shine on your ways.
Spiritual » Liberty » The mission of Christ to proclaim
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,
Spiritual » Liberty » The truth the instrumentality
Spiritual » Vision » Afflictions prepare for
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and darkness.
Spiritual » Power » Source of spiritual power
But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
but those who wait on Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.
Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and saw a great crowd come to Him. He said to Philip, Where shall we buy loaves so that these may eat? And He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Watching
You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Saul the bloodthirsty persecutor becomes paul, the tender-hearted brother
Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
And Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Worshipping
and they were as one to the trumpeters and to the singers, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah; and as they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah, saying, For He is good, for His mercy endures forever, the house was filled with a cloud, the house of Jehovah, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of God!
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The boy Christ
And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was on Him.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The restless demoniac becomes a quiet disciple
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones.
And they came to Jesus and saw him who had been demon-possessed, and had the legion, sitting and clothed and right-minded, the one who had the legion. And they were afraid.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The thessalonians
We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
Spiritual » Power » Enables men to speak with authority
And the apostles gave witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power. And great grace was on them all.
And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Cleansing of God's temple
And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the command of the king, by the words of Jehovah, to clean the house of Jehovah.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Spiritual weapons
For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Spiritual weapons
For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
Spiritual » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness
Spiritual » Power » Accompanies the baptism of the holy spirit
But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
And suddenly a sound came out of the heaven as borne along by the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Believers called to
God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant grace
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work;
Spiritual » Perception » The wise man
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that one event happens to all of them.
Spiritual » Labourers » Worthy of reward
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in Word and doctrine. For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox treading out grain," and, "The laborer is worthy of his reward."
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Many varieties of
But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The bankrupt servant
Therefore the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a certain king who desired to make an accounting with his servants. And when he had begun to count, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The bankrupt servant
Therefore the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a certain king who desired to make an accounting with his servants. And when he had begun to count, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Witnessing
so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant supplies
But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Past mercies
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
Spiritual » Rest » Eternal
And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over all satanic powers
And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire. And those who had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Spiritual receptivity the condition of
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.
Spiritual » Crowns » Cast at jesus' feet
the twenty-four elders fell down before the One sitting on the throne. And they worshiped Him who lives for ever and ever, and threw their crowns before the throne, saying,
Spiritual » Crowns » To be guarded
Behold, I come quickly. Hold fast to that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The laodicean church
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The laodicean church
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Saints in heaven and earth united in
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » All barriers broken down
Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The gentiles
and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Saints in heaven and earth united in
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » All barriers broken down
Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The gentiles
and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Endurance
If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Personal purification
Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Discovered by spiritual vision
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » God's blessing the source of
The blessing of Jehovah itself makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Young soldiers enlisted
This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » A fight of faith
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Invisible foes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Young soldiers enlisted
This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » A fight of faith
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Invisible foes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant power
Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The delights of God's word
Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the inseparable love of God
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the divine keeping power
For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.
Spiritual » Immaturity » Instability of faith
so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of the spirit
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of wisdom
For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of God
and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Produced in all periods of life
Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering;
Spiritual » Talk » Spiritual thoughts expressed in music
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Found in spiritual assemblies
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst.
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of righteousness
Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Perennial
And all trees for food shall go up by the torrent, on its bank on this side, and on that side. Its leaf shall not fade, nor its fruit fail. It will bear by its months, because its waters come out from the sanctuary. And its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
And after laying on them many stripes, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailor to keep them safely; who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Walking
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
Spiritual » Riches general references to » More precious than earthly
esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Unsearchable
This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » A paradox
There are those who act rich, yet have nothing; and those who act poor, yet have great riches.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Enduring
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Spiritual receptivity
But that sown on the good ground is this: he who hears the Word and understands; who also bears fruit and produces one truly a hundredfold; and one sixty; and one thirty.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » An everlasting name
For so says Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep My Sabbath, and choose things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant; even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Spiritual knowledge
And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Spiritual rest
Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » A new heart
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The boy samuel
And the child Samuel went on growing both in stature and in goodness, both with Jehovah and also with men.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the just
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the certainty of the divine promises
These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Spiritual » Encouraged » Formation
But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge; and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness,
Spiritual » Perception » Nehemiah
And, behold, I understood that God had not sent him, but that he said this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Spiritual » Perception » David
And David saw that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that He had made his kingdom sure for His people Israel's sake.
Spiritual » Vision » The holy spirit the author of
He will glorify Me, for He will receive of Mine and will announce it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and will announce it to you.
Spiritual » Vision » Uses the telescope of faith
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
Spiritual » Power » Mightier than physical forces
Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the Word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Spiritual » Talk » Christ the topic of
And behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, it being about sixty stadia from Jerusalem. And they talked to each other of all these things which had happened.
Spiritual » Rest » Found in Christ's service
Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » Inward righteousness
For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » A childlike spirit
and said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Brotherhood of, recognized by Christ
For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Brotherhood of, recognized by Christ
For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Warring
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant entrance
For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The blessings of a spiritual life
I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Brings joy in the night season
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips, when I remember You on my bed and think of You in the night watches.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the church of the future
Your sun will no more go down, nor your moon withdraw; for Jehovah will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be ended.
Spiritual » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Obedience, the condition of receiving
Jesus answered them and said, My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Liberates the soul from all error
Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on Him, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Spiritual » Vision » Given in answer to prayer
And Elisha prayed and said, I pray You, Jehovah, open his eyes so that he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Grown only upon good ground
And some fell on the good ground and yielded fruit, indeed one a hundredfold, and one sixty, and one thirty.
Spiritual » Talk » Concerns the things of God
Spiritual » Talk » The habit of the saints
Then those fearing Jehovah spoke together, each man to his neighbor. And Jehovah listened and heard. And a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Jehovah, and for those esteeming His name.
Spiritual » Hope » Believers called to testify concerning
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » An inward battle
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » An inward battle
but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The return from captivity
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing; then they said among the nations, Jehovah has done great things with them.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Love of Christ
whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » All the teachings of the gospel
to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by us, the apostles.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The wonderful works of God
I will remember the works of Jehovah; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is 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.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the benevolent
Then shall your light break out as the dawn, and your health shall spring out quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall gather you.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the upright
To the upright there arises light in the darkness; he is gracious and full of pity and righteousness.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the divine ability
and being fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was also able to perform.
Spiritual » Perception » The shunammite woman
And she said to her husband, Behold now, I see that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
Spiritual » Encouraged » Through "the word"
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Spiritual » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Spiritual » Liberty » Spiritual, a mark of the new dispensation
to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Spiritual » Liberty » The bondage of sin broken
that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Spiritual » Vision » Heart purity essential to
Spiritual » Hope » The scriptures the source of
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
Spiritual » Hope » The saving element in life
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?
Spiritual » Life » Love the demonstration of
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
Spiritual » Rest » Appropriated by faith
For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, "I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over malign spiritual forces
Behold, I give to you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over worldly allurements
For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Mary magdalene
But Mary stood outside of the tomb, weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down into the tomb.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » In the communion of saints
And while they talked and reasoned, it happened that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Testimony an aid to
that which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Warms the heart
And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while He opened the Scriptures to us?
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of life
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The prodigal son
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land. And he began to be in want.
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The prodigal son
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land. And he began to be in want.
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Death of the old life
Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Thomas
Then Thomas (he being called Twin) said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with Him.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Peter
He said to him the second time, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My sheep.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Paul
Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » The holy spirit
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant life
The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant joys
They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The words of Christ concerning benevolence
I have shown you all things, that working in this way we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Is quickened by the holy spirit
But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said to you.
Spiritual » Receptivity » Martha received him into her house
And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.
Spiritual » Perception » Peter
Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Truly I see that God is no respecter of persons;
Spiritual » Liberty » A new law of life sets free
But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Spiritual » Fulness » The overflowing cup
You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
Spiritual » Vision » Believers alone possess
Yet a little while and the world does not see Me any more. But you see Me. Because I live, you shall live also.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » The product of heavenly wisdom
But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
Spiritual » Talk » Tends to religious fervency
And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while He opened the Scriptures to us?
Spiritual » Rest » Vainly sought in escape from trouble
And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
Spiritual » Hope » Inspires to clean living
And everyone who has this hope on him purifies himself, even as that One is pure.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Leaves its impress upon the life
But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlearned and uneducated men, they marveled. And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » John the baptist
And the child grew and became strong in spirit and was in the deserts until the day of his showing to Israel.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Returning unto the lord
And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » The inheritance of God's elect
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Contact with living water
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivulets of water that brings forth its fruit in its seasons, and its leaf shall not wither, and all which he does shall be blessed.
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Chastening, or pruning
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » The sinful women
Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Mary of bethany
Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Faith and love
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Perseverance
And Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The lord as a deliverer
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came in to You, into Your holy temple.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Paul
But Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this One is the Christ.
Spiritual » Perception » The samaritan woman
Spiritual » Perception » Jesus
But knowing their thoughts, answering, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason in your hearts?
Spiritual » Knowledge » Obtained by acquaintanceship with God
Then we shall know, if we follow on to know Jehovah. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Leads to eternal life
And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Spiritual » Power » Gives men courage to rebuke sin
But I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and justice, and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Spiritual » Power » Jesus the supreme example of
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. And a report went out throughout all the neighborhood concerning Him.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Working
I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » New Birth
Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
good Tidings » Spiritual
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, making peace heard; who brings good news, making salvation heard; who says to Zion, Your God reigns!
And answering, the angel said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands before God. And I am sent to speak to you and to show you these glad tidings.
Go up for yourself on the high mountain, bringer of good tidings to Zion. Lift up your voice with strength, O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem; lift up, do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Behold upon the mountains the feet of Him who brings good news, making it heard, Peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, fulfill your vows; for the wicked shall pass through you no more; he is completely cut off.
Watchmen » Spiritual
Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent.
Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the Word of My mouth, and give them warning from Me.
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, We will not listen.
Way provided » Spiritual
Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people. Raise up! Raise up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The Way of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it. But He shall be with them; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err in it.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.
The way of the upright is to turn away from evil; he who keeps his way guards his way.
Set up waymarks, make sign posts for yourself. Set your heart toward the highway, the way you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Weapons » Spiritual » Sword of the spirit
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write: He who has the sharp sword with two edges says these things.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,
For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with uprightness for the meek of the earth. And He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
Weapons » Spiritual » General references to weapons
And David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds,
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,
But He answered and said, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Weapons » Spiritual » Trust in weapons vain
And David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of Jehovah of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
And I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.
Words » Christ's, characteristics of » Spiritual
It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Words of Christ » Characteristics of » Spiritual
It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Topics on Spiritual
Abundance, Spiritual
Exodus 34:6And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Abuse, Of Spiritual Things
Numbers 20:10And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now you rebels. Must we bring water for you out of this rock?
Adultery, Spiritual
1 John 2:15-17Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Appetite, Spiritual
Isaiah 55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Armor, Spiritual
Ephesians 6:11Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Babies Used As A Spiritual Image
1 Corinthians 3:1-2And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
Beauty, Spiritual
Psalm 110:3Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power, in holy adornment from the womb of the morning: You have the dew of Your youth.
Betrothal, Spiritual
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one Man, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Birth, Spiritual
John 3:3Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Blessings, Spiritual
John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Bondage, Spiritual
2 Timothy 2:26and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.
Circumcision, spiritual
Deuteronomy 30:6And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Crowns, Spiritual Use
Isaiah 62:3You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
David, Spiritual Significance Of
Acts 2:29Men, brothers, it is permitted to say to you with plainness as to the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Dividing Spiritual Blessings
Acts 1:17For he was numbered with us and had obtained part of this ministry.
drought, spiritual
Psalm 68:6God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
equipping, spiritual
Isaiah 61:1-2The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Escaping, Spiritual Things
Genesis 39:10-12And it happened as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not listen to her to lie with her, or to be with her.
Fruit, Spiritual
James 3:13Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom.
Fruitfulness, Spiritual
Galatians 5:22-23But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26So then I run, not as if I were uncertain. And so I fight, not as one who beats the air.
Gifts From God, Spiritual
John 6:32Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you that bread from Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from Heaven.
Inheritance, Spiritual
Hebrews 1:2has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds,
Labor, Spiritual Aspects Of
John 4:38I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labor.
Land, Spiritual Aspects Of
Genesis 2:8-9And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward in Eden. And there He put the man whom He had formed.
Leaders, Spiritual
Hebrews 5:4And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.
Light, Spiritual
1 John 1:5And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.
Many Spiritual Beings
Revelation 5:11And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was myriads and myriads, and thousands of thousands,
Maturity, Spiritual
Ephesians 4:13-15And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Not Seeing Spiritual Things
Daniel 10:7And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. For the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Origins Of Spiritual Life
John 3:6-8That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Poverty, Spiritual
Matthew 13:58And He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
Predestination, Spiritual Events
Exodus 33:19And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.
Purity, Moral And Spiritual
Habakkuk 1:13You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look upon vexation. Why do You look upon those who deal deceitfully? Will you be silent when the wicked swallows one more righteous than he?
Rejection Of Spiritual Instruction
2 Chronicles 30:10And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
Rest, Spiritual
Lamentations 5:19-22You, O Jehovah, remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation.
Resurrection, Spiritual
Ephesians 2:1And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,
Riches, Spiritual
Romans 11:33-36O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!
Slavery, Spiritual
John 8:33-36They answered Him, We are Abraham's seed and were never in bondage to anyone. How do you say, You will be made free?
Sleep, Spiritual
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Spiritual Adoption
Exodus 4:22-23And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.
Spiritual Allegories
John 10:1-16Truly, truly, I say to you, He who does not enter into the sheepfold by the door, but going up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber.
Spiritual Blindness, Consequences Of
Romans 1:20-22For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.
Spiritual Blindness, In Unbelievers
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
Spiritual Blindness, Removal Of
2 Corinthians 4:6For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Blindness, Results Of Sin
Lamentations 4:14they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not any can touch their clothes.
Spiritual crowns
Isaiah 61:3to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.
Spiritual Darkness
John 11:10But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him.
Spiritual Dawn
2 Peter 1:19We also have a more sure Word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,
Spiritual Deafness
2 Timothy 4:4And they will turn away their ears from the truth and will be turned to myths.
Spiritual Death
Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual Depths
1 Corinthians 2:10But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Spiritual Desires
Isaiah 26:9With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Spiritual Destitution
Matthew 5:3Blessed are the poor in spirit! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual Discernment
2 Kings 4:9And she said to her husband, Behold now, I see that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
Spiritual Failure
Matthew 7:27And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat on that house. And it fell, and great was its fall.
Spiritual Famine,
Amos 8:11-12Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.
Spiritual Famine, Relief Of
Psalm 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good.
Spiritual Fathers
1 Corinthians 4:15For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for I have begotten you in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Spiritual Foundations
1 Corinthians 3:11For any other foundation can no one lay than the one being laid, who is Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Fulness
Psalm 23:5You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
Spiritual Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
Spiritual Gifts, Diversity Of
1 Corinthians 12:4-6But there are differences of gifts, but the same Spirit.
Spiritual Gifts, Given To Church
Ephesians 4:11And truly He gave some to be apostles, and some to be prophets, and some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
Spiritual Gifts, Importance Of Love
1 Corinthians 13:1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Spiritual Gifts, Purpose Of
1 Corinthians 14:12Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual things, seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound
Spiritual Gifts, Warnings About
1 Corinthians 14:39So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in languages.
Spiritual Growth
2 Corinthians 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness
Spiritual Harlotry
Hosea 5:4Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they have not known Jehovah.
Spiritual Hunger
1 Peter 2:2desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Spiritual Ignorance
1 Corinthians 12:1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
Spiritual Illumination
Daniel 5:14I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
Spiritual Immaturity
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
Spiritual Investment
Matthew 6:20But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
Spiritual life
John 6:63It is the Spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Spiritual Life, Described By
Romans 6:11Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Spiritual Life, Maintained By
John 6:57As the living Father has sent Me, and I live through the Father, so he who partakes of Me, even he shall live by Me.
Spiritual Life, Nature Of
Psalm 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we shall see light.
Spiritual Malnutrition
1 Corinthians 3:1-3And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.
Spiritual Maturity
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
Spiritual Mothers
1 Peter 3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good and fearing no terror.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.
Spiritual Offspring
Galatians 3:29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
Spiritual Perception
Mark 2:8And instantly knowing in His spirit that they reasoned so within themselves, He said to them, Why do you reason these things in your heart?
Spiritual Progress
Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.
Spiritual Striving
Philippians 1:27Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
Spiritual Treasures
2 Corinthians 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;
Spiritual Understanding
Hebrews 13:12-13Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
Spiritual Vitality
2 Thessalonians 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Spiritual Warfare, Armour
Psalm 28:7-8Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song I will praise Him.
Spiritual Warfare, As Conflict
Ephesians 6:12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Spiritual Warfare, Causes Of
2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.
Spiritual Warfare, Enemies In
James 4:4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Strength, Spiritual
Ephesians 6:10Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
That Which Is Spiritual
John 4:24God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
Victory, Over Spiritual Forces
Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.
Wardrobe, Spiritual
Romans 13:12The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Weakness, Spiritual
2 Corinthians 12:10Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
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