- I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death.
- For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.
- Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
- For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.
- For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
- In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.
- Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
- Who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross. - While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
- And whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
- Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness
will find life and honor. - From there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.
- When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
- The heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge. - For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
- Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God's wrath.
- Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame. - No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
- To those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
- Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?
- In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”
- No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
- Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
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