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1 Timothy 6 11-1 Timothy 6 12
But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
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2 Peter 1 5-2 Peter 1 8
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor 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 are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good?
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2 Corinthians 7 1
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Psalms 138:8
The Lord will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
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Isaiah 51:1
“ Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
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Ephesians 1:4
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
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Hosea 6:3
Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to 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
O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.Because Your lovingkindness 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 what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Philippians 3:16
Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
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Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
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Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
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Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
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1 Thessalonians 5 15
See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
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1 Corinthians 13 10
But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
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Job 17:9
Yet the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger.
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1 Timothy 6 19
storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
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Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
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1 Timothy 5 10
well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
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Psalms 63:8
My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.
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Acts 9:3-6
As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him,“ Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”And he said,“ Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said,“ I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”So he, trembling and astonished, said,“ Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him,“ Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
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Psalms 119:5
Oh, that my ways were directed To keep Your statutes!
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2 Thessalonians 2 13
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by 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, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
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2 Corinthians 13 9
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
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Hebrews 12:23
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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Psalms 94:15
But judgment will return to righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it.
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Romans 7:19-24
For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
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Ephesians 4:12
for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
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Psalms 119:173-176
Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.I long for Your salvation, O Lord, And Your law is my delight.Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me.I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.
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1 Peter 5 10
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
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Psalms 110:2-3
The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from 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, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.