29 Bible Verses about experience

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,

It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

by knowing the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge! May you be filled with the entire fulness of God!

Have you had all that experience for nothing (if it has really gone for nothing)?

Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

varieties of effects, but the same God who effects everything in everyone.

verifying what pleases the Lord.

Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,

(For anyone who is fed on milk is unskilled in moral truth; he is a mere babe.

I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

Now I would like you to know about the distress which befell me in Asia, brothers. I was crushed, crushed far more than I could stand, so much so that I despaired even of life;

Now, all over Judaea, Galilee, and Samaria, the church enjoyed peace; it was consolidated, inspired by reverence for the Lord and by its invocation of the holy Spirit, and so increased in numbers.

I know how to live humbly; I also know how to live in prosperity. I have been initiated into the secret for all sorts and conditions of life, for plenty and for hunger, for prosperity and for privations.

You have had a taste of the kindness of the Lord:

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.