114 Bible Verses about Spiritual
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However that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
And we speak of these things, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
From Thematic Bible
Adorning » Spiritual » General references
The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.
She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Adorning » Spiritual » White raiment, the heavenly garment
but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Adorning » Spiritual » The robe of righteousness, the saint's adorning
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her holy ones will shout aloud for joy.
Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
Armour » Spiritual » Weapons and armour of the saints
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Assurance » Spiritual
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
Beauty » Spiritual
One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship the LORD in holy array.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Worship the LORD in holy array.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
Boasting » Spiritual
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches? none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough, read more.
That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree; do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in." read more.
True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News?not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." read more.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe. For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; But God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise. And God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong. And God chose the lowly of the world, and the despised, what is considered to be nothing, to bring to nothing what is considered to be something, that no flesh might boast before God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord."
Body » Resurrection of » Spiritual
who will change our lowly bodies into the likeness of his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly.
For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
When Christ, your life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
Brethren » Spiritual » The family of God
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look. Do not do it. I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your Teacher, and all of you are brothers.
"The King will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
Christ » Words of characteristics of » Spiritual
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Circumcision » Spiritual
in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Clothing » Spiritual » White raiment, the heavenly garment
but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Clothing » Spiritual » The robe of righteousness, the saint's adorning
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her holy ones will shout aloud for joy.
Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
Consequences of sin » death » Physical » Spiritual » Separation from God
but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
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 even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Darkness » Spiritual
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
Deafness » Spiritual
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 heart, and turn again, and be healed."
To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
"Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and do not see, who have ears to hear, and do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Dearth » Spiritual
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
death » Spiritual
Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
And whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by his stripes you were healed.
death » Spiritual » Of the wicked
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared?whose will they be?'
They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?" says the Lord GOD; "and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
Debtors » Spiritual
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
I have an obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Diligence » Spiritual
12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
Do you not say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for them, that they may be saved.
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Enlightenment » Spiritual
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both.
Feasts » Of new moons » Spiritual
He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."
As they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Look, I have made ready my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast."'
But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
In this mountain, the LORD of hosts will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Fulness » Spiritual » Warnings against worldly fulness
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
"'Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they do not judge the right of the needy.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of blessing
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of joy
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of the spirit
Do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of wisdom
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, do not cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of God
and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Fulness » Spiritual » The overflowing cup
You prepare a table before 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 her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
"I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Faith
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
for by grace you have been 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 without reproach; and it will be given to him.
For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Repentance
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life."
Gifts from God » Spiritual » Grace
But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Christ the chief of
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
"I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Rest
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Faith
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Are through Christ
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD, God, might dwell there.
But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Therefore he says, "When he ascended 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 will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for 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 without reproach; and it will be given to him.
For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Glory
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Grace
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but 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 will 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 thought you could obtain the gift of God with money.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Righteousness
The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » A new heart
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take 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
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Not repented of by him
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Strength and power
You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Eternal life
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Peace
The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Repentance
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life."
Glory » Spiritual » Is the work of the holy ghost
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Glory » Spiritual » Is given by God
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Glory » Spiritual » Is given by Christ
The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
Glory » Spiritual » Is the work of the holy spirit
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
Good » Tidings » Spiritual
The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."
The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God."
Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace. Keep your feasts, Judah. Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
Healing » Spiritual
Heal me, O LORD, 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 he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
"Come, and let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Heirs » Spiritual » Spiritual
For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God.
Are not they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
Heritage » Spiritual
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
Now I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Hope » Spiritual » Abides forever
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
But now faith, hope, and love remain?these three. The greatest of these is love.
Hope » Spiritual » Enabled abraham to become the father of the faithful
and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
Hope » Spiritual » Believers called to testify concerning
But sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with humility and fear:
Hope » Spiritual » The scriptures the source of
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Hope » Spiritual » The saving element in life
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Hope » Spiritual » Inspires to clean living
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
Hunger » Spiritual
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
"Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters. Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people do not consider.
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
"Indeed they do not know to do right," says the LORD, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
Imitation » Of worldly people and customs condemned » Spiritual
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
And the things you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.
Inheritance » Earthly » Spiritual
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
Now I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
The law of God » Described as » Spiritual
Life » Spiritual
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
Life » Spiritual » Spotless, general references to
that he might present the church to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
Life » Spiritual » Necessitates death to sin and self
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
Life » Spiritual » Secured through faith
"Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Life » Spiritual » Christ the supreme object of
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
Life » Spiritual » Sustained by the word of God
Turn 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.
He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.
Life » Spiritual » Love the demonstration of
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love remains in death.
Men » Spiritual » Evil men put to silence
and a sound message that cannot be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.'"
Mind » Spiritual
For "who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace;
Nation » Spiritual » Sins of
The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.
"Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
and I said, "My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
The children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals."
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
Nation » Spiritual » The righteous cultivate the spirit of
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Nation » Spiritual » Rebellion against
Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
and that whoever did not come within three days, according to the counsel of the officials and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
Preparation » Spiritual » Abandonment of idols
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
Preparation » Spiritual » Cleansing of God's temple
They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
Preparation » Spiritual » Personal purification
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.
Preparation » Spiritual » Returning unto the lord
He will 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 has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks. By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because God took him away. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. read more.
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. By faith, he lived as a foreigner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith he received power to procreate when he was past age, and Sarah herself was barren. He regarded him faithful who had promised. Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son; even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;" concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones. By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. By faith, Rahab the prostitute, did not perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets; who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee. Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawed apart. They were killed with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, did not receive the promise,
Rest » Spiritual
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard did not profit them, because they were not united by faith with those who heard. For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. read more.
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;" and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest." Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, he again defines a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Rivers » Jordan » Spiritual
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Oh that you had listened to my commandments. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
Sleep » Spiritual » Symbol of death
Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
He kneeled down, and shouted out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Sleep » Spiritual » General references to natural
He lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."
He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, could you not watch with me for one hour?
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
And suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
Sleep » Spiritual » Warnings against
According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming ?at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Radiant lives, of the saints
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.
that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
Spiritual » Blindness » Examples of
We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
Leave them alone. They are blind guides. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
You blind men. For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
Spiritual » Adoption » Adultery
Yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.
Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight 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 asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "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 the LORD.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Of God
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.
Spiritual » Instruction » Examples of spiritual
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stayed in their place.
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Also in the third year of his reign he sent his officials, even Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus.
Spiritual » Quickening » General references to spiritual quickening
LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
Revive me, LORD, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
DALET. My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word.
Spiritual » Poverty » Destitution of the truth
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "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 the LORD.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Food
I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but 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 Paradise of God.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Enlightenment, spiritual
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both.
Spiritual » Enlargement » Enlightenment
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Brethren
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, "Look. Do not do it. I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your Teacher, and all of you are brothers.
"The King will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
Spiritual » Hearing » Heritage
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
Now I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » To God encouraged
Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones. The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Exhortations to those engaged in
"I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
But you be strong, and do not let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."
Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Do not be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.
Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says the LORD. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says the LORD, 'and work, for I am with you,' says the LORD of hosts.
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Spiritual » Foundation » General references to
Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be put to shame."
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not be put to shame.
"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, will be compared to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Hearing » Heirs of God
For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God.
Are not they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
Spiritual » Of God's word sins of » Imitation
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
And the things you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Healing of spiritual disease
Heal me, O LORD, 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 he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
"Come, and let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we 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 like gold.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Spiritual » Light » God a light
The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
There will no longer be any night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Spiritual » Light » Reflected from believers
that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
"So let all your enemies perish, LORD, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." And the land had rest forty years.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Coming with power
I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah. For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all those kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
He said to them, "Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power."
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Kingdom of Christ
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way 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. You will 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, that I would not be delivered to the Jewish leaders. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
Spiritual » Resurrection » Man, raised from spiritual death
You were made alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
Spiritual » Cleansing » Spiritual encouraged
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
Spiritual » Renewal » Man, strengthened and renewed by the holy spirit
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is wearing away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Spiritual » Crowns » Darkness
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
Spiritual » Adoption » Adorning
The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.
She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Treasures
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to put on your eyes, 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 will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
More than that, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of that which is truly life.
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Spiritual » Of children encouraged » Investments
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to put on your eyes, 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 will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
More than that, I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of that which is truly life.
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people do not consider.
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
"Indeed they do not know to do right," says the LORD, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
Spiritual » Cleansing » Composure
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
But I make my life an account of nothing precious to myself, so that I may finish my race, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear, neither be troubled."
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.
Spiritual » Temple » General references to
What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For we are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
Spiritual » Sowing » Surgery
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Spiritual » Hearing » Spiritual of believers
LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Guard your step when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Kingdom of heaven
"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like 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 feast for his son,
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Spiritual » Crowns » Deafness
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 heart, and turn again, and be healed."
To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
"Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and do not see, who have ears to hear, and do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Preaching of
To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.
But when they believed Philip proclaiming good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
But he said to them, "I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."
Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God,
It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,
Spiritual » Sowing » Striving
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Walking with God
This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
Spiritual » Battles » Beauty
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.
Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,' says the Lord GOD.
that he might present the church to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
Spiritual » Crowns » Debtors
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.
I have an obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
By this we know love, 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
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
According to the Law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
And there is salvation in none other, for there is no other name under heaven, that is given among men by which we must be saved."
Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly I tell 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
Then 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 the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty in God for the tearing down of strongholds,
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the spoken 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 active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Moses' fellowship with God
Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Body
who will change our lowly bodies into the likeness of his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let us also bear the image of the heavenly.
For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
When Christ, your life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Bondage
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Spiritual » Sleep » Warnings against
According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
Watch therefore, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming ?at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Dawn, spiritual, the coming of Christ ushers in the
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Harvest
Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we do not give up.
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Then he said to them, "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
Spiritual » Crowns » Dawn
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Shining faces, general references to
He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.
But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:
When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?"
"Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and do not see, who have ears to hear, and do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
You hypocrites. You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not know how to interpret 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, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Spiritual » Kingdom » General references to
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born of water and 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, that I would not be delivered to the Jewish leaders. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual » Progress » A characteristic of the righteous
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
Spiritual » Power » Fills life with healing influences
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Sanity
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger.
Spiritual » Feasts » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."
As they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."
Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Look, I have made ready my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast."'
But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
In this mountain, the LORD of hosts will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Spiritual » Sowing » The blessings of
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who set free the foot of the ox and the donkey.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Spiritual » Future rest of the saints restoration » Spiritual, of the penitent
"Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding." "Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds," says the LORD; "because they have called you an outcast, saying, 'It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.'"
Spiritual » Physical inflicted physical healed » Circumcision
in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Utterance
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love from us that is in you, see that you also abound in this grace.
on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
Spiritual » Traffic » Exhortations to men to engage in
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.
"Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters. Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
Buy the truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there is not enough for us and you? You go rather 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, and yet possessing all things.
"I know your afflictions and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
Spiritual » Enlargement » failure
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
And the rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell?and great was its fall."
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Discernment
Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?"
His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Spiritual » Hearing » Highway
Go through the gates, prepare the way of the people. Build up, build up the highway. Gather out the stones. Lift up a banner for the peoples.
And a highway will be there, and a way, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Do you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
"Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Spiritual » Adoption » Attraction
Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine. They are right to love you.
The LORD appeared of old to me, saying, 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.
'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Spiritual » Adoption » Armour
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Showers
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Let us acknowledge the LORD. Let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, The LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."
My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Rivers
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Oh that you had listened to my commandments. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
Afterward he measured one thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
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 found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."
The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
Spiritual » Renewal » Reputation
For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks. By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because God took him away. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. read more.
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. By faith, he lived as a foreigner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith he received power to procreate when he was past age, and Sarah herself was barren. He regarded him faithful who had promised. Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son; even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;" concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones. By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. By faith, Rahab the prostitute, did not perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets; who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee. Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawed apart. They were killed with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth. These all, having had testimony given to them through their 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 your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, 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 isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For thus says the LORD, "Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Times of spiritual refreshing
Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Messiah. The crowds listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "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 the LORD.
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Heirship with Christ entailed in
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Heirship with Christ entailed in
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
Spiritual » Receptivity » General references to
Then those who received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
And what was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who truly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
Spiritual » Hope » Abides forever
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
But now faith, hope, and love remain?these three. The greatest of these is love.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Watchmen
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never be silent, day or night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest,
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
"I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet.'" But they said, "We will not listen."
Spiritual » Life » Necessitates death to sin and self
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
Spiritual » Eternal the growth of » Near at hand
From that time, Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, "Repent. For the Kingdom of Heaven is near."
Even so you 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 should instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
Spiritual » Mind » Spiritual mind
For "who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace;
Spiritual » Life » Secured through faith
"Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Demands entire consecration
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Fidelity
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Spiritual » Enlargement » Exercise
Immediately the one who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
But refuse profane and old wives' tales. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
Spiritual » Encouraged » In love
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
Spiritual » Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you weren't yet ready. And even now you are still not ready,
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Abiding in Christ
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
All discipline seems for the moment painful, not joyful; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
Spiritual » Talk » Used in everyday life
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, 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.
You shall teach them your children, talking 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.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Spiritual cleansing
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and freed us from our sins by his blood; and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Spiritual » Liberty » The presence of the spirit secures
Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Victory over satan
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as did not worship the beast nor his image, and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
There will no longer be any night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » A spiritual crown
Do not be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for 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, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Without defect
being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Abandonment of idols
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Endurance
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Growth
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. read more.
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection?not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, of the teaching of washings, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. read more.
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned. But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this. For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Spiritual » Encouraged » Into Christ
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Spiritual » Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
Do you not say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest already. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By striving after the Christ ideal
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
until we all attain to 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
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
Spiritual » Labourers » Prayer for the increase of
When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."
Spiritual » Knowledge » A cause for exultation
but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight," says the LORD.
and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD'; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest," says the LORD: "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more."
Spiritual » Life » Christ the supreme object of
For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of glory
Do not be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.
Spiritual » Life » Sustained by the word of God
Turn 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.
He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Sympathetic service
Then the King will tell 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 to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham." He said, "Here I am."
Spiritual » Rest » Lost by stubbornness
to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.
For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Humility
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Dedication of God's house
They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God's house, the God of Israel.
Spiritual » Immaturity » Continuance in the primary department
For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of blessing
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over severest afflictions
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Obedience secures the benefits of
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he 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." Immediately the rooster crowed.
They even carried out the sick into the streets, and put them on cots and mats, so that as Peter came by at the least his shadow would fall on 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 is born of God, and knows God.
They did not receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem. When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them?"
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Obedience secures the benefits of
But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it."
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of joy
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
Spiritual » Rest » True response found in God
It will happen in the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
Spiritual » Rest » The divine presence gives
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over evil influences of men
Through you we will push back our adversaries. Through your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.
You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says the LORD 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 to him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Messiah?"
Spiritual » Hope » Enabled abraham to become the father of the faithful
and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The cold-hearted philippian jailer becomes a sympathetic friend
He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » Eternal life
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The death of Christ
In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the followers of Christ
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the obedient
You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you, and light shall shine on your ways.
Spiritual » Liberty » The mission of Christ to proclaim
The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
Spiritual » Liberty » The truth the instrumentality
Spiritual » Vision » Afflictions prepare for
In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Spiritual » Power » Source of spiritual power
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Watching
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness, so then let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.
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."
But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Worshipping
it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever," then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD, so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD filled God's house.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The boy Christ
The child was growing, and was becoming strong, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » The restless demoniac becomes a quiet disciple
And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By putting away childish things
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The thessalonians
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
Spiritual » Power » Enables men to speak with authority
With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
Stephen, full of grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Cleansing of God's temple
They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Spiritual weapons
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty in God for the tearing down of strongholds,
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Spiritual weapons
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty in God for the tearing down of strongholds,
Spiritual » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
Spiritual » Power » Accompanies the baptism of the holy spirit
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like 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, through whom you were called into 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 to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
Spiritual » Perception » The wise man
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness?and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Spiritual » Labourers » Worthy of reward
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages."
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Many varieties of
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The bankrupt servant
Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The bankrupt servant
Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Witnessing
that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant supplies
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in 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
I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over all satanic powers
I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having 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, then 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 fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,
Spiritual » Crowns » To be guarded
I am coming quickly. Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The laodicean church
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The laodicean church
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, 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
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The gentiles
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the 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
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The gentiles
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Spiritual » Kings spiritual kingship, conditions of » Endurance
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Personal purification
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Discovered by spiritual vision
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » God's blessing the source of
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Young soldiers enlisted
This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » A fight of faith
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » Invisible foes
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Young soldiers enlisted
This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » A fight of faith
Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » Invisible foes
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant power
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly 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 words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Hosts.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the inseparable love of God
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will 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. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
Spiritual » Immaturity » Instability of faith
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of the spirit
Do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of wisdom
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, do not cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of God
and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Produced in all periods of life
They are planted in the LORD's house. They will flourish in our God's courts. They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
Spiritual » Talk » Spiritual thoughts expressed in music
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises 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 the midst of them."
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of righteousness
From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Perennial
By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of 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)
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Walking
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » More precious than earthly
accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Unsearchable
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Spiritual » Riches general references to » A paradox
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Spiritual » Riches general references to » Enduring
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Spiritual receptivity
And what was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who truly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » An everlasting name
For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial 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
I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD: 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 heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Spiritual » Gifts spiritual, promised » A new heart
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
Spiritual » Examples of growth » The boy samuel
The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with the LORD, and also with men.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the just
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the certainty of the divine promises
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Spiritual » Encouraged » Formation
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
Spiritual » Perception » Nehemiah
I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Spiritual » Perception » David
And David knew that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
Spiritual » Vision » The holy spirit the author of
He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. All things that the Father has are mine; that is why I said that he takes of mine, and will declare 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 the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.
Spiritual » Talk » Christ the topic of
And look, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened.
Spiritual » Rest » Found in Christ's service
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » Inward righteousness
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual » Spiritual necessities emphasized by Christ » A childlike spirit
and said, "Truly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual » Relationships the church, its spiritual relationships » Brotherhood of, recognized by Christ
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.
Spiritual » Kinship, family of God its spiritual relationships » Brotherhood of, recognized by Christ
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » Inhabitants of jerusalem
Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Warring
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant entrance
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » The blessings of a spiritual life
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By partaking of the deeper truths of the gospel
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » Brings joy in the night season
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the church of the future
Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
Spiritual » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Obedience, the condition of receiving
Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
Spiritual » Knowledge » Liberates the soul from all error
Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Spiritual » Vision » Given in answer to prayer
Then Elisha prayed and said, "LORD, please open his eyes, that he may see." The LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » Grown only upon good ground
Still others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Spiritual » Talk » Concerns the things of God
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power;
Spiritual » Talk » The habit of the saints
Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared the LORD, and who honored his name.
Spiritual » Hope » Believers called to testify concerning
But sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with humility and fear:
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Spiritual » Conflict characteristics of » An inward battle
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Spiritual » Warfare characteristics of » An inward battle
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is 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, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Spiritual » special reasons for Joy » Love of Christ
whom not having seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory?
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » All the teachings of the gospel
that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles:
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The wonderful works of God
I will remember the works of the LORD; for I will remember your wonders of old.
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By overcoming temptation
I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the benevolent
Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Spiritual » Light promised » To the upright
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Spiritual » Persuasion » Of the divine ability
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Spiritual » Perception » The shunammite woman
She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
Spiritual » Encouraged » Through "the word"
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,
Spiritual » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection?not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
Spiritual » Liberty » Spiritual, a mark of the new dispensation
to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Spiritual » Liberty » The bondage of sin broken
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory 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, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Spiritual » Hope » The saving element in life
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Spiritual » Life » Love the demonstration of
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love remains in death.
Spiritual » Rest » Appropriated by faith
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will 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
Look, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will in any way hurt you.
Spiritual » Victory promises of ultimate triumph » Over worldly allurements
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Mary magdalene
But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » In the communion of saints
It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Testimony an aid to
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Warms the heart
They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
Spiritual » Crowns » The crown of life
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.
Spiritual » Moral Brankruptcy » The prodigal son
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
Spiritual » Examples of moral and spiritual bankruptcy » The prodigal son
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Death of the old life
Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Thomas
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, that we may die with him."
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Peter
He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend 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 will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant life
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Spiritual » Abundance, of God's gifts » Abundant joys
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Spiritual » Memory calls to mind » The words of Christ concerning benevolence
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you 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 Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
Spiritual » Receptivity » Martha received him into her house
She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet, and heard his word.
Spiritual » Perception » Peter
And Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God does not show favoritism;
Spiritual » Liberty » A new law of life sets free
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made you free from the law of sin and of death.
Spiritual » Fulness » The overflowing cup
You prepare a table before 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 will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Spiritual » Fruit » General references to » The product of heavenly wisdom
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.
Spiritual » Talk » Tends to religious fervency
They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
Spiritual » Rest » Vainly sought in escape from trouble
I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove. Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
Spiritual » Hope » Inspires to clean living
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
Spiritual » Fellowship with Christ » Leaves its impress upon the life
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they were amazed. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » John the baptist
The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Returning unto the lord
He will 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. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Contact with living water
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Chastening, or pruning
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » The sinful women
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Mary of bethany
Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Faith and love
Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » Perseverance
But 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 the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Paul
But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Messiah.
Spiritual » Perception » The samaritan woman
Spiritual » Perception » Jesus
But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
Spiritual » Knowledge » Obtained by acquaintanceship with God
Let us acknowledge the LORD. Let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, The LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."
Spiritual » Knowledge » Leads to eternal life
This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Spiritual » Power » Gives men courage to rebuke sin
But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
Spiritual » Power » Jesus the supreme example of
Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Working
We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Spiritual » Conditions of entrance into » New Birth
Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
good Tidings » Spiritual
The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."
The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God."
Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace. Keep your feasts, Judah. Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
Watchmen » Spiritual
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never be silent, day or night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest,
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
"I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet.'" But they said, "We will not listen."
Way provided » Spiritual
Go through the gates, prepare the way of the people. Build up, build up the highway. Gather out the stones. Lift up a banner for the peoples.
And a highway will be there, and a way, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Do you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
"Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Weapons » Spiritual » Sword of the spirit
Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
"To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the spoken word of God;
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Weapons » Spiritual » General references to weapons
Then 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 the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty in God for the tearing down of strongholds,
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the spoken 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 active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Weapons » Spiritual » Trust in weapons vain
Then 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 the LORD 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 the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."
I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
Words » Christ's, characteristics of » Spiritual
It is the spirit who gives life. 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 who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Topics on Spiritual
Abundance, Spiritual
Exodus 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Abuse, Of Spiritual Things
Numbers 20:10Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?"
Adultery, Spiritual
1 John 2:15-17Do not love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love is not in him.
Appetite, Spiritual
Isaiah 55:1"Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters. Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Armor, Spiritual
Ephesians 6:11Put on the whole armor of God, 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 address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.
Beauty, Spiritual
Psalm 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Betrothal, Spiritual
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Birth, Spiritual
John 3:3Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless one is born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
Blessings, Spiritual
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Bondage, Spiritual
2 Timothy 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
Circumcision, spiritual
Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
Crowns, Spiritual Use
Isaiah 62:3You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
David, Spiritual Significance Of
Acts 2:29"Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Dividing Spiritual Blessings
Acts 1:17For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
drought, spiritual
Psalm 68:6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
equipping, spiritual
Isaiah 61:1-2The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;
Escaping, Spiritual Things
Genesis 39:10-12As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he did not listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
Fruit, Spiritual
James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
Fruitfulness, Spiritual
Galatians 5:22-23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,
Gifts From God, Spiritual
John 6:32Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
Inheritance, Spiritual
Hebrews 1:2in these last days has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Labor, Spiritual Aspects Of
John 4:38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Land, Spiritual Aspects Of
Genesis 2:8-9The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Leaders, Spiritual
Hebrews 5:4Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
Light, Spiritual
1 John 1:5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Many Spiritual Beings
Revelation 5:11I saw, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
Maturity, Spiritual
Ephesians 4:13-15until we all attain to 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 10:7I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great trembling fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
Origins Of Spiritual Life
John 3:6-8That which is born of the flesh is flesh. 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 33:19He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
Purity, Moral And Spiritual
Habakkuk 1:13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Rejection Of Spiritual Instruction
2 Chronicles 30:10So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.
Rest, Spiritual
Lamentations 5:19-22You, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
Resurrection, Spiritual
Ephesians 2:1You were made alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Riches, Spiritual
Romans 11:33-36Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out.
Slavery, Spiritual
John 8:33-36They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free?'"
Sleep, Spiritual
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Spiritual Adoption
Exodus 4:22-23You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
Spiritual Allegories
John 10:1-16"Truly, truly, I tell you, one who does not enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Spiritual Blindness, Consequences Of
Romans 1:20-22For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So they are without excuse.
Spiritual Blindness, In Unbelievers
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over.
Spiritual Blindness, Removal Of
2 Corinthians 4:6seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Blindness, Results Of Sin
Lamentations 4:14They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, so that men can't touch their garments.
Spiritual crowns
Isaiah 61:3to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Spiritual Darkness
John 11:10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
Spiritual Dawn
2 Peter 1:19We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
Spiritual Deafness
2 Timothy 4:4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths.
Spiritual Death
Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Spiritual Depths
1 Corinthians 2:10But to us God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
Spiritual Desires
Isaiah 26:9With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Spiritual Destitution
Matthew 5:3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Spiritual Discernment
2 Kings 4:9She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
Spiritual Failure
Matthew 7:27And the rain came down, the floods came, and the winds 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 GOD, "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 the LORD.
Spiritual Famine, Relief Of
Psalm 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
Spiritual Fathers
1 Corinthians 4:15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Spiritual Foundations
1 Corinthians 3:11For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Fulness
Psalm 23:5You prepare a table before 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 things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
Spiritual Gifts, Diversity Of
1 Corinthians 12:4-6Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
Spiritual Gifts, Given To Church
Ephesians 4:11He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
Spiritual Gifts, Importance Of Love
1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Spiritual Gifts, Purpose Of
1 Corinthians 14:12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the church.
Spiritual Gifts, Warnings About
1 Corinthians 14:39Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking with other languages.
Spiritual Growth
2 Corinthians 9:10Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
Spiritual Harlotry
Hosea 5:4Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
Spiritual Hunger
1 Peter 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby to salvation,
Spiritual Ignorance
1 Corinthians 12:1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
Spiritual Illumination
Daniel 5:14I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and extraordinary wisdom are found in you.
Spiritual Immaturity
1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.
Spiritual Investment
Matthew 6:20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through and steal;
Spiritual life
John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Spiritual Life, Described By
Romans 6:11In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Spiritual Life, Maintained By
John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
Spiritual Life, Nature Of
Psalm 36:9For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
Spiritual Malnutrition
1 Corinthians 3:1-3And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.
Spiritual Maturity
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Spiritual Mothers
1 Peter 3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,
Spiritual Offspring
Galatians 3:29If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
Spiritual Perception
Mark 2:8And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
Spiritual Progress
Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
Spiritual Striving
Philippians 1:27Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Spiritual Treasures
2 Corinthians 4:7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
Spiritual Understanding
Hebrews 13:12-13Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
Spiritual Vitality
2 Thessalonians 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Spiritual Warfare, Armour
Psalm 28:7-8The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
Spiritual Warfare, As Conflict
Ephesians 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Spiritual Warfare, Causes Of
2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to the lower parts of hell, and committed them to chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
Spiritual Warfare, Enemies In
James 4:4You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Strength, Spiritual
Ephesians 6:10Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
That Which Is Spiritual
John 4:24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
Victory, Over Spiritual Forces
Hebrews 4:15For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
Wardrobe, Spiritual
Romans 13:12The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Weakness, Spiritual
2 Corinthians 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
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