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1 Timothy 6 11-1 Timothy 6 12
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
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2 Peter 1 5-2 Peter 1 8
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 perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Peter 3 11-1 Peter 3 13
Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
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2 Corinthians 7 1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Psalms 138:8
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
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Isaiah 51:1
“ Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
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Ephesians 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
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Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
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2 Peter 3 18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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Psalms 63:1-3
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.So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
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Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Philippians 3:16
Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.
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Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
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Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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Philippians 3:13-14
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
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1 Thessalonians 5 15
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
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1 Corinthians 13 10
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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1 Timothy 6 19
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
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Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
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1 Timothy 5 10
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
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Psalms 63:8
My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
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Acts 9:3-6
As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him,“ Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”He said,“ Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said,“ I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”
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Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
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2 Thessalonians 2 13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
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Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
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2 Corinthians 13 9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.
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Hebrews 12:23
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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Psalms 94:15
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
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Romans 7:19-24
For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,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.What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
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Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
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Psalms 119:173-176
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
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1 Peter 5 10
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
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Psalms 110:2-3
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.Your 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.
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Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him,“ Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.