"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thess. 5:23). It will help your spiritual growth immeasurably to know the difference between your...
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better....
"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight). We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Cor....
"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a...
"For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16). The outward man, or the body, is decaying. It's growing older, just as the house you may live in at 504 Chestnut Street is growing older. But...
"Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the HIDDEN MAN OF THE HEART, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet SPIRIT, which is in the...
"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him" (Gen. 1:26-27). "For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people" (Ps. 149:4). If man is made in the likeness of God, and God is a...
"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:23-24). Spiritual...
"Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession confession" (Heb. 4:14). The Greek word translated "profession" here is translated confession elsewhere in the King James Version....
"A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled" (Prov. 18:20). You won't get the blessings of God just because you believe. You don't get saved, healed, or get answers to prayer just because you...
"For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4). "I may be in the world, but I am not of the world. I am of God. My citizenship is in Heaven. And while I am in this world, I have the...
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