- For our eyes are fixed not on what is seen but rather on that which cannot be seen. What is visible is transitory; what is invisible is eternal.
- And God is able to enrich you with an abundance of every grace, so that, with all of your needs provided for, you may be able to produce a surplus of good works.
- Just as in Adam all die, so all will be brought to life in Christ.
- Do not associate with unbelievers. For what basis can there be for a partnership between righteousness and lawlessness? What do light and darkness have in common?
- For this reason, I rejoice when I endure weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and distress for the sake of Christ. For it is when I am weak that I am strong.
- For we are God’s coworkers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from anything that can defile flesh or spirit, and thereby make our holiness perfect in the fear of God.
- Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? If he is not, then you have failed the test.
- In other words, God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, and not holding people’s transgressions against them, and he committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- Now we know that if the earthly tent in which we live is destroyed, we have a dwelling prepared for us by God, a dwelling in the heavens, not made with human hands, that will be eternal.
- But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- And as we gaze upon the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, all of us are being transformed into that same image from glory to glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- However, to avoid the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
- However, God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit explores everything, even the depths of God.
- But he answered me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” Hence, I will boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell within me.
- Thus there are three things that endure: faith, hope, and love,
and the greatest of these is love. - Do you not realize that you are God’s temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
- For since death came into the world through a man, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a man.
- God is faithful, and it is by him that you have been called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
- For as it is written,
“Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,
nor has the human heart imagined
what God has prepared for those who love him.” - Come to your senses and sin no more. For some of you have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For the temple of God is holy, and you are that temple.
- For the love of Christ urges us forward, once we conclude that one has died for all, and therefore all have died. And he died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who for their sakes died and was raised to life.
- The body is one, although it has many parts; and all the parts, though many, form one body. So it is with Christ.
And just as no human being comprehends any person’s innermost being except the person’s own spirit within him, so also no one comprehends what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.When you pray do not go on babbling endlessly as the pagans do, for they believe that they are more likely to be heard because of their many words.