Verse Reference List

VERSE REFERENCE LIST

• “a child of God”: See “children [child] of God”
• “a chosen race, A royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for god’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of god; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”:
• “a city set on a hill”:
• “a clean heart”: Psa. 51:10
• “a helmet of salvation”:
• “a holy priesthood [people]”: 1 Pet. 2:5
• “a lamb unblemished and spotless”: 1 Pet. 1:19
• “A man is justified by works and not by faith alone”: Jas. 2:24
• “a new creature [person]” [“in Christ”]: 2 Cor. 5:17
• A people of “peace”:
• “a pillar in the temple of My God”: 1 Pet. 2:4; Rev. 3:12 {2 Cor. 3:3}
• “a thief in the night”:
• “Abandon the faith”: 1 Tim. 4:1 NIV
• “Abandoning [abandoned] the love you had at first”: Rev. 2:4 (ESV)
• “Abba Father”:
• “abide [abides, abiding, dwell] in Him [Jesus]”: 1 John 2:6, 10, 24, 27-28, 3:6, 9; 17, 24; 4:12-13, 15-16; 2 John 9; John 6:56; 14:20; 15:4-7 {John 15:9-10; 17:21; 2 Thess. 1:2}
• “abides [abiding, dwells, dwelling] in you”: John 5:38; 6:56; 14:17, 20; 15:4-7; 2 Tim. 1:14; 1 John 2:14, 24, 27-28, 3:24; 4:12-13, 15-16; 2 John 2; John 5:38; 6:56; 14:20; 15:4-7; Rom. 8:9, 11; 1 Cor. 3:16; Gal. 2:20 {John 14:25; 15:9-10; 17:21; Eph. 2:22}
• “abolish”:
• “abolished”:
• “abounding in the work of the Lord”:
• Abraham never offered up Isaac: Heb. 11:7-12, 17
• “abundantly”: John 10:10
• “accuser” [your, Satan accusing you before God]: 1 5:8-9; Rev. 12:10; Job 1:6-19; 2:1-7; Rom. 8:33, 38-39; 1 Tim. 5:14; Zech. 3:1-2; Jude 9
• “accusing” [you, Satan]: See “accuser” [your, Satan accusing you before God]
• “acquire wisdom”:
• “active”: 2 Tim. 2:4 {Heb. 4:12}
• “admonish,” “teach,” and “correct” those who are going “astray”:
• “adopt” [God wants to adopt you as a son/daughter]: ; see also “children [child] of God”
• “adopted”: Rom. 8:15, 23; Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:5
• “adversary,” “tempter,”“accuser”: 1 Pet. 5:8-9; Rev. 12:10; Job 1:6-19; 2:1-7; Rom. 8:33, 38-39; 1 Tim. 5:14; Zech. 3:1-2; Jude 9
• “Advocate” [Jesus is our Advocate before God]: 1 John 2:1
• “affliction or persecution”:
• “afflictions, hardships, and distresses”: 2 Cor. 6:4; 11:27; 1 Thess. 2:9; 3:8; 2 Tim. 2:3, 9; 4:5
• “all authority”: John 17
• All forms of violence:
• “all men”: Tit. 2:11
• All righteousness comes from Christ:
• All the following: Psa. 119:160; 2 Tim. 3:16-17 {Isa. 55:11; Pro. 30:5; 2 Tim 2:15; Matt. 5:18}
• “all things came into being through Him”: John 1:3
• “all things new”: See “I am making all things new”
• “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted”: 2 Tim. 3:12; Matt. 5:10-12
• “all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind”:
• “always abounding in the work of the Lord”: 1 Cor. 15:58
• “Ambassador for Christ”: Rev. 1:6, 90; 5:10; 1 Pet. 2:9; 2 Cor. 5:20; Eph. 6:20; 1 Cor. 3:9; Phm. 1:1; 3 John 1:8
• “among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist”:
• “among us”: Luke 1:1; 7:16; 24:22; John 1:14; Acts 1:17, 21; see also “in your [our] midst”
• “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up”: Gal. 6:9 ESV
• “And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope”: Rom. 5:3-4
• “and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him [Jesus] in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven: ‘You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased’”:
• “angels who sinned”: 2 Pet. 2:4
• “angels” [spiritual beings]: Luke 15:10; Heb. 1:14; 2:7-9; Psa. 91:11; Col. 1:16; Job 38:7; Luke 20:36; Rev. 4:8; Matt. 22:30; Jude 6; 1 Pet. 3:22; Eph. 6:12
• “anointed”: Luke 4:18; Acts 4:27; 10:38; Heb. 1:9
• “another gospel which is not another”: Gal. 1:6-9 KJV; 2 Cor. 11:3-4; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Tit. 1:13-14; Acts 4:12 {Jude 3; Gal. 3:1-5; 4:9-15; 5:4, 7; Eph. 4:4-5; Rev. 3:11; Deut. 12:32; Rev. 22:18-19; Pro. 30:5-6; Heb. 13:9; Rom. 16:17-18, 2 Cor. 11:11-15}
• “apostate”: 2 Thess. 2:3; 2 Pet. 2:20-22 {Mic. 2:4}
• “are of your father the devil”: See “you are of your father the devil”
• “arrogance”:
• “as a ransom for all”: John 10:11, 15, 17-18; Matt. 20:28; 26:53; Mark 10:45; Luke 22:19; Gal. 1:4; 2:20; Eph. 5:2, 25; 1 Tim. 2:6, 14; Heb. 9:14; 10:9-10; 1 John 3:16 {John 2:19-21; Isa. 53:10-12; Php. 2:6-8; Tit. 2:14}: Note: This disproves the “Limited Atonement” false teaching of Calvinism. Forgiveness of sins is open to all (everyone) – on the condition you come to Christ in obedience to the gospel. Everyone has this choice, and everyone can claim the gift of eternal life.
• “as a result of the works, faith was perfected”: Jas. 2:22
• “as far as the east is from the west”: Psa. 103:12
• “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall give praise to God”: Rom. 14:11
• “ascended into heaven”: John 3:13; 6:62; 20:17; Acts 1:11; 2:34; 10:4; Eph. 4:8-10
• “ashamed”: Mark. 8:38; Luke 9:26; 16:3; Rom. 1:16; 2 Tim. 1:8, 12, 16; 1 Pet. 4:16
• “ask of God” [for wisdom]: Jas. 1:5; Eph. 6:18; Pro. 9:10; Matt. 4:4; Psa. 1:1-3; 86:11
• “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened”:
• “asking of God”: see “ask of God” [for wisdom]
• “at an hour when you do not think He will”:
• “at hand”:
• “at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”: Php. 2:10-11 {Rom. 14:11}
• “at work in you”:
• “atonement”: See “make atonement”
• “atoning”: See “make atonement”
• “authority”: Matt. 28:18
• “away from the presence of the Lord”: 2 Thess. 1:9; see also “separated” [from God]
• “babble [babbling]”: Repetitive chanting, incantations, “Hail Mary’s,” talking in weird gibberish “tongues,” rambling on, etc.; Matt. 6:7-8; Eccl. 5:2
• “Babylon”:
• Backsliding: Pro. 14:14 ESV, Jer. 2:19; 3:22
• “baptized”: Acts 8:36; 10:47; 16:33; 18:8; see also “being baptized”
• “baptized” immediately: Acts 8:36; 10:47; 16:33; 18:8; see also “being baptized”
• “Be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you”: 2 Pet. 1:10
• Be Baptized by immersion: Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Acts 8:39
• “be diligent to be found by Him [Christ] in peace, spotless and blameless”: 2 Pet. 3:14; {Eph. 1:4; 5:27; Col. 1:21-23; Rom. 3:24; 5:9; 8:30; 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 2:16; Tit. 3:7}
• “‘Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life’”: see “be faithful until death”
• “be faithful until death”: Remain faithful; Rev. 2:10; Heb. 3:6
• “be found naked”: Php. 3:12-21; 1 Cor. 9:24-27; Rev. 3:4-6; Heb. 4:11; 2 Pet. 1:10; 3:14
• “be like Him [Jesus]”:
• “Be on guard”:
• “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong”: 1 Cor. 16:13
• “be on the alert”:
• “be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”: 2 Pet. 3:17-18
• “Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord”: 1 Cor. 15:58
• “Be steadfast, immovable”: 1 Cor. 15:58
• “bear [bears, bearing] fruit”: Jas. 1:22; 2:14, 17, 21-22, 24, 26; John 15:8; Matt. 3:8; 5:16; 7:19; 9:37; 2 Tim. 3:17; 1 Cor. 15:58; Rev. 2:2; 3:2, 15-16; 14:13; Rom. 2:5-6
• “bearing false witness” [testimony]: Matt. 15:19; 19:18; Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20 {Matt. 26:60; Acts 6:13}
• “‘Because you have kept the word of My perseverance…hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown’”: Rev. 3:10-11
• Because you hear something repeated often and loudly doesn’t make it true or even wise: Rom. 3:4; Acts 17:10-11
• “Beelzebul” [“Beelzebub” KJV]:
• “beginning”: Job 38:7; Luke 2:13-14; Rev. 5:11; Psa. 148:2; Rev. 7:11; Matt. 26:53
• Being a “good person” doesn’t absolve you of the sin(s) you have already committed: Jas. 2:10
• “Being baptized” by immersion: Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Acts 8:39
• “being made in the likeness of men”: Php. 2:6-8; John 1:14; Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14-17 {Heb. 4:15}
• “belief”: See “believe”
• “believe in Him”: See “Believing in Jesus”
• “believe”: See “Believing in Jesus”
• “believed in Him [Jesus]”: John 2:11; see also “Believing in Jesus”
• “believers”: Acts 5:14; 10:45; 1 Thess. 1:7; 2:10; 4:10; 1 Tim. 6:2; 1 Pet. 1:21
• “Believing in Jesus”: John 2:11; 3:14-18; 1:12; 3:36; 5:24; 6:29, 35, 40, 47; 7:5, 38; 11:25-26; 12:11, 37, 44-46; 14:6; 20:31; 1 Tim. 1:16; 2:5-7; Matt. 7:13-14; Eph. 2:8-9; Acts 2:21, 38; 4:10-12; 8:37; 10:43; 11:17; 13:38-39; 15:11; 16:30-32; Rom. 1:16; 4:24; 5:1-2; 9:33; 10:4, 9-11, 13; Mark 1:15; 16:16; Gal. 2:20; 3:22; 1 Cor. 1:21; 15:2; 1 John 5:1, 5, 10-13; {1 Pet. 2:6; Luke 8:12; Matt. 27:42; Isa. 45:22}; see also “faith in Christ”
• “believing in”: See “Believing in Jesus”
• “believing”: See “Believing in Jesus”
• “Bereans”: The saints in Berea; Acts. 20:4
• “Beware the wolves” [paraphrase]: Matt. 7:15; see also “wolves”
• Bible study: Matt. 4:4; Psa. 1:2; Acts 17:11; 2 Tim. 2:15; 3:16-17; 4:1-2; 1 Pet. 2:2; 2 Pet. 1:10; 1 Tim. 4:6; 1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 4:11-13, 5:12-14; 6:1; Jas. 3:1; Ezra 7:10; Col. 3:16; Isa. 28:9-10, 13; John 5:39-40
• “black darkness”: Jude 13
• “blasphemes against the Holy Spirit”: Matt. 12:31; Mark 3:29; Luke 12:10
• “blessed and holy”:
• “Blessed are the poor in spirit [the humble]”
• “blessed hope”: Tit. 2:13; 1:2; 1 Pet. 1:3
• “Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him”: Jas. 1:12
• “blind leaders of [leading] the blind”: Matt. 15:14 KJV; Luke 6:39
• “blood” [of Christ]: ; see also “shed blood”
• “boast [boasting]”:
• “body”:
• “boldly [boldness]”: 2 Tim. 1:7-14; Rom. 1:16; Matt. 5:14-16; Acts 4:29-31; 2 Cor. 3:12; Eph. 3:12; 6:19; Php. 1:20; 1 Thess. 2:2
• “bond-servant”: Matt. 12:18; 20:28; Mark 10:44-45; John 1:14; 13:3-16; Matt. 26:42; Php. 2:5-11; Psa. 22:6; Isa. 42:1; 50:5-6; 52:14; 53:2-3, 11; Rom. 15:3, 8; 2 Cor. 8:9; Heb. 2:9-18; 12:2; see also “slave”
• “bondage [captivity]”: Captivity, slave, servant/bondservant; Rom. 7:14; Luke 4:18; Eph. 4:8; Psa. 68:18; 2 Tim. 2:26 {Psa. 124:7; Isa. 28:13; 42:6-7}
• “Books were [will be] opened”: Rev. 20:12
• “born again”: John 1:12-13; 3:3-8; 1 Pet. 1:3-5, 23-25; Tit. 3:5; 1 John 2:29; 3:1, 9; 5:1, 18; 2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 3:7, 29; 6:15; Eph. 2:5-6; 4:24; Col. 3:10; Rev. 20:6; Acts 2:38; Rom. 6:3-11; Jas. 1:18; Rom. 10:9
• Born of a “virgin” [Jesus]:
• “born of the Spirit”: John 3:5-8; 1 Cor. 15:47
• Both before man and before God:
• “breaking [of] bread”: 14:19; Luke 24:30, 35; Acts 2:42, 46
• “breathed life” [paraphrase]: Gen. 2:7; 1:26-28; 2:18-25; 3:19; 5:2; 18:27; Zech. 12:1; Psa. 36:5-6; 90:3; 103:13-14; Job 10:9; 33:4; Isa. 64:8; Eccl. 12:7; Matt. 19:4
• “bride” [of Christ]: ; see also “New Jerusalem”
• “broken”: Matt. 21:44; Luke 20:18; Rom. 11:20; Rev. 2:27
• “buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead”
• “But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it”: Rom. 8:25
• “But it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved”: Matt. 10:22; 24:13; Mark 13:13
• “but its end is the way of [eternal] death”: Pro. 14:12
• “but my righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him”: Heb. 10:38
• “But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance”: Luke 8:15
• “buy a sword” [paraphrase]: Luke 22:36
• “by faith”:
• “by the Spirit”: Zec. 4:6; John 15:4-5; Matt. 4:1; Luke 4:1; Rom. 2:29; 8:13; 1 Cor. 2:13; 12:3; Gal. 3:3; 5:16, 18, 25; 1 John 3:24 {2 Thess. 2:13; Rom. 8:7}
• “call [calling] on His name”: Isa. 12:4; Rom. 10:13; Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21; 22:16; Psa. 86:5; Matt. 28:19; 1 Cor. 1:2
• “call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”: 1 Cor. 1:2; Rom. 10:13
• “called”: Chose; Matt. 22:14; Rom. 1:1, 6-7; 8:28-30; 1 Cor. 1:1, 9, 24; 7:15, 17-18, 20-24; Gal. 1:6; 5:13; Eph. 1:4-11; 4:1, 4; 1 Pet. 1:15; 2:9, 21; 3:9; 5:10; 2 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 9:15; 1 Tim. 6:12; 1 Thess. 4:7; Col. 3:15; 2 Thess. 2:14; 2 Tim. 1:9; Rev. 17:14
• “came down out of heaven”: John 6:41, 51, 58; 3:13
• “captivity”: Slavery; Luke 4:18; Eph. 4:8; 2 Tim. 2:26 {Col. 2:8; Rev. 13:10}
• “carried away”:
• “cast out [down]” [Satan]:
• Cast out of the Garden: Gen. 3:24; Jas. 1:15
• Cheating:
• “cheerful giver”:
• Chief Angel [Satan]: Eze. 28:15
• “children [child] of God”: John 1:12; 11:52; Acts 17:29; Rom. 8:16, 21; 9:8; Php. 2:15; 1 John 3:1-2, 10; 5:2
• “choice [choices, choose, chooses]”: Josh. 24:15; Gen. 26:4-5; Deut. 28:1; 30:10, 15-19; Eze. 18:9, 23, 31-32; 2 Chron. 12:14; 2 Pet. 3:9; Mark 8:34; Rev. 3:20; John 3:19; 6:68; 14:15, 23; 15:10; Matt. 7:21-27; 1 John 2:3; Gal. 6:7; 2 Cor. 5:10; Psa. 101:2; 119:106, 111-112; Acts 11:23; Rom. 1:18-19, 21, 28 {Gen. 6:3, Psa. 14:1; Heb. 11:6; 1 Pet. 3:20; Rev. 22:11}
• “choked out”:
• “choose” [“chose”]: See “choice”
• “Christ”:
• Christian prayer:
• Christians “never sin”: A false teaching;
• “Church of Christ”: Rom. 16:16; Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 1:2; 10:32; 11:16, 22; 15:9; 2 Cor. 1:1; Gal. 1:13; 1 Tim. 3:5; 1 Thess. 2:14; 2 Thess. 1:4
• “Church of God”:
• “citizenship is in heaven”: See “for our citizenship is in heaven”
• Claims the Bible is outdated: Eccl. 1:9
• “cleanses us from all sin”: 1 John 1:7
• “clothe yourself [yourselves]”: Rev. 3:18; Ga. 3:27 {Rom. 13:14; 1 Pet. 5:5}
• “clothed in white garments [robes]”: Rev. 3:4-5, 18; 4:4; 7:9, 13; 19:14 {2 Cor. 11:2}; see also “white garments”
• “clothed”: See “clothe yourself”
• “come out of”: Rev. 18:4
• “come short of”: See “Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it”
• “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light”: Matt. 11:28-30
• Comes to faith in Christ: Acts 16:33; 8:36
• “coming again” [“come again”]: John 14:3, 18-23; 6:39-40; Luke 18:8; Matt. 19:14; 1 Cor. 15:23
• “commandments of men”: Tit. 1:9
• “commandments”: John 14:15, 21, 23; 12:47; 15:10; Rev. 2:26; Eph. 5:1-2; 1 Cor. 11:1 {John 14:31; 5:19; 6:38; 12:49; Heb. 5:8; Luke 22:41-42; Php. 2:8; Heb. 5:7-10}; see also The Commandments of Christ book we publish
• “compassion”: Lam. 3:22-23
• “complete” [paraphrase, “the perfect comes,” The Canon of Scripture, complete and final for all time]: 1 Cor. 13:10
• Conduct baptisms by immersion: Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Acts 8:39
• Confess Christ before men: See “Confessing”
• “confess our sins”:
• “Confessing”: Rom. 10:9-10; Matt. 10:32-33; 16:15-16; Luke 12:8-9; 1 John 2:23; 4:15 {Rom. 1:16. Psa. 119:46; John 9:22; 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 1:8; Rev. 2:13; 1 Cor. 12:3}
• “confidence”: Acts 4:29-31
• “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. and let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing”: Jas. 1:2-4
• “consider the helpless”:
• “consuming fire”:
• “contend earnestly [actually fight] for the faith which was once for all [time] handed down to the saints [the Apostles]”: Jude 3; 1 Cor. 15:2; Gal. 1:6-9; 3:1-5; 4:9-15; 5:1, 4, 7; 1 Pet. 5:12; 1 Tim. 1:3-4; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Tit. 1:13-14; 2 Pet. 1:16; 3:16-18; Eph. 4:14; 6:11, 13-14; Heb. 6:1; 1 Cor. 16:13; Php. 1:27; 2 Thess. 2:3, 15; Luke 18:8; 2 John 8
• Contend with this sinful pull every day: Matt. 26:41; Jas. 4:7
• Continual prayer:
• Continual service:
• Continual thanksgiving:
• Continual worship:
• “continue in sin”: Remain in sin; Rom. 6:1 {1 Tim. 5:20}
• Continued “obedience”: John 14:15, 21, 23-24; 15:9-14; Matt. 7:21-27; Mark 8:34; 1 John 2:3; 5:2-3
• Continued faithfulness and trust in the Lord (persevering in faith):
• Continued repentance:
• Continued sinful behavior and actions of fallen man: Rev. 6:4-8
• “contrite heart”: Matt. 5:3; Psa. 51:17; Isa. 57:15
• “convict”:
• “corruption”:
• “calculate [count] the cost” [of following Christ]: Luke 14:26-33; Matt. 10:37; Php. 3:8; Acts 20:24; 21:13; Rev. 12:11
• “courage”: Php. 1:14; 2 Cor. 4:11; 5:6-8; 10:2; Acts 23:11; 27:25; 28:15 {Matt. 9:2, 22; 14:27; Mark 6:50; 10:49; 15:43; Luke 20:40; John 16:33; Josh. 1:9}
• “courageously”: See “courage”
• Creator [The, God]: Gen. 1:1; 1 Cor. 10:26; Psa. 24:1; 50:12; Job. 41:11; Deut. 10:14; Exo. 19:5
• “crown of life”: 2 Tim. 4:8; Jas. 1:12; 1 Pet. 5:4; Rev. 2:10; 3:11; 4:4, 10
• “crucified [crucify] the flesh”: Rom. 6:6, 11; Gal. 2:20; 5:24
• “crucified with Christ”: Gal. 2:20; 5:24
• “crucified” [Jesus]:
• “cursed”:
• Daniel prayed consistently, even though it jeopardized his life:
• “darkness”:
• “day of the Lord”: See “the day of the Lord”
• “dead in your trespasses and sins”: Eph. 2:1
• “dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed”: Col. 3:5
• “dead”:
• “death on a cross”: Phil. 2:8
• “death”: Gen. 2:15-17; 3:1, 19; Rom. 5:12, 14, 21; 6:23; 7:14, 24; 14:9; Eph. 2:1-2; 4:8; 5:14; 1 Cor. 15:26, 54-56; Luke 4:18; 15:24, 32; Psa. 56:13; 86:13; 116:8; 2 Tim. 1:10; 2:26; Hos. 13:14; 42:6-7; Heb. 2:14; 1 John 3:14; Rev. 20:6, 14; 21:4; John 12:31{Luke 4:6; 16:22; Matt. 4:8-9; 8:22; Psa. 19:7; 23:3; 68:20; Isa. 25:8; Gal. 4:3; Job 33:30; Acts 8:22-23; John 8:34, 44; 14:30; 1 Tim. 3:7; Job. 1:12; 2:6; 1 Tim. 1:20; Rev. 1:18; 2:9, 11, 13; 3:9; 12:9; Jas. 1:15}
• “decaying”:
• “deceit”: John 1:47
• “deceive [deceived]”: 3:1-24; Matt. 4:1-11; 2 Cor. 2:11; 11:3; Rev. 12:9; 20:10; 1 John 2:26; Eph. 4:14; 1 Tim. 2:14; Tit. 3:3; Jas. 1:16 {2 Cor. 11:14; Acts 5:3; Rev. 3:11; Gal. 6:7; Rom. 3:4; 1 Cor. 6:9; 15:33}
• “deception”: deliberate obfuscation
• “deeds”:
• Deep, dark, “hidden,” “secret” things of the heart: see “nothing hidden” [from God]
• “delight”: Gen. 3:6
• “deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me [Jesus]”: Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23
• “deny himself [ourselves]”: See “deny [denies] himself and takes up his cross and follow Me [Jesus]”
• “Depart from the faith”: 1 Tim. 4:1 ESV; see “fall away”
• “depart from”: See “Depart from the faith
• “depravity” [“depraved”]: Rom. 1:28; 1 Tim. 6:5; 2 Tim. 3:8
• “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”: 1 Tim. 2:4
• “despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”: Isa. 53:3
• “destroy [the] strongholds”: 2 Cor. 10:3-5 ESV
• “detestable”: Pro. 6:16-19, etc.
• “did not come [the first time] to judge the world, but to save the world”: John 3:16-17; 10:10; 12:47; Luke 9:56; 19:10; Matt. 18:11 {Mark 2:17; Matt. 20:28; 1 Tim. 1:15-16; 1 John 4:14; Psa. 23:3}
• “die in the wilderness”: Num. 14:22-24, 26-38; 26:65; 32:11-13; Deut. 2:14; Josh. 5:6; 1 Cor. 10:1-12; Jude 11; Psa. 95:10-11; Heb. 3:7-19; 4:1-11; Acts 7:39-43
• “die to sin”: 1 Pet. 2:24
• Die to your old self: 2 Cor. 5:17 {1 Cor. 3:16}
• “died and rose again” after “three days”: John 2:19; 11:25; Matt. 12:40; 26:61; 27:53; Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:34; 14: 58; 2 Cor. 5:15; 1 Thess. 4:14; Rom. 1:4; 6:5; 10:9; 1 Pet. 1:3, 21; 3:21; 1 Cor. 15:12-13, 21; Php. 3:10; Acts. 4:2, 33; 26:23
• “died for our [your] sins”: Rom. 5:6, 8; 1 Cor. 15:3; 2 Cor. 5:14-15; 1 Thess. 5:10; 1 Pet. 3:18 {1 Tim. 1:15; Matt. 1:21; Isa. 53:5}
• “discipline my body”: 1 Cor. 9:27; Eph. 6:4; Col. 2:5; 1 Tim. 4:7-8 {2 Thess. 3:7, 11)
• Discipline (Church):
• “disciplined” (by the Lord):
• “disclose the motives of men’s hearts [not just the results]”: 1 Cor. 4:5
• “disqualified”: 1 Cor. 9:25-27
• “do all things”:
• “Do not be bound together with unbelievers”: 2 Cor. 6:14
• “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”:
• “Do not be deceived”: 2 Cor. 11:3; Gal. 6:7; Jas. 1:16; 1 Cor. 6:9; 15:33; 1 Tim. 2:14; {Tit. 3:3; Jas. 1:15; Rom. 3:4}; see also “deceive”
• “Do this in remembrance of Me [Christ]”: Luke 22:19; Matt. 26:26-28; Mark 15:22-24 {1 Cor. 10:16; 11:23-29}
• “doers of the Word”:
• Doing a kindly deed:
• “doing good” [for others and for Christ]: Gal. 6:9
• Down payment: Eph. 4:30
• Drown out the voice of the Lord:
• “drunkards”:
• “dust”: See “dust from the ground”
• “dust from the ground”: Gen. 2:7; 3:19; Psa. 90:3; 103:14; 104:29; Eccl. 3:20; 12:7; Nah. 1:3; Job 34:15; Isa. 29:16; 45:9; 64:8; Jer. 18:6; Rom. 9:20-21
• “dwell among them [us]”: Rev. 21:3
• “dwell”: See “dwell among them”
• “dwelling [abiding]”: 2:22; see also “abides [dwells] in you”
• “each one of us will give an account of himself to God”: Rom. 14:10; 2 Cor. 5:10; Heb. 4:13
• “eat”: Matt. 4:4; 1 Tim. 4:6
• “endurance [endure, endures, endured]”: 10:22; 24:13; Mark 13:13 Luke 21:19; 2 Cor. 6:4; Heb. 10:36; 12:1; Jas. 1:3-4; 5:11; 1 Cor. 4:12; 9:12; 10:13; 13:7; 2 Cor. 1:6; 6:4; 1 Thess. 2:14; 2 Thess. 1:4; 2 Tim. 2:10, 12; 3:11; 4:3, 5; Heb. 10:36; 11:25, 27; 12:1-3, 7; Jas. 1:3-4; 5:11; see also “persevere”
• “endure [and suffer] hardship”: 2 Tim. 2:3, 9; 4:5; 2 Cor. 11:27; 1 Thess. 2:9; 3:8; see also “perseverance”
• “endures to the end”: See “endurance”
• “enemy of God”: Jas. 4:4
• “enter [into] my rest”: Heb. 3:11; 4:3, 5
• “enter through the narrow gate”:
• “envy”:
• Established by Jesus, not by men: See “Does Name Matter,” Jackson, Wayne. Identifying the Church of the New Testament.” ChristianCourier.com. Access date: June 26, 2022. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/470-identifying-the-church-of-the-new-testament
• Eternal death: 1 John 5:19; 8:44; 10:10; Eph. 6:16; Jas. 4:7
• “eternal life in Christ Jesus”: Rom. 6:23; see also “eternal life”
• “eternal life”: Matt. 19:16, 29; 25:46; Mark 10:29-30; Luke 18:30; John 3:14-17, 36; 4:14; 5:24; 6:27, 40, 47, 58; Rom. 6:22-23; 2 Pet. 1:11; 1 John 5:11-13, 20; Tit. 3:7; Jude 20-21; see also “eternal salvation” and “the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”
• “eternal punishment”:
• “eternal salvation”: Heb. 5:9; Mark 16:20; Rom. 1:16; Acts 13:26; 16:17; Eph. 1:13; 2 Tim. 3:15; Tit. 2:11; Matt. 7:13-14 {Matt 4:23; 9:35; 12:18; Luke 1:77; 4:18-19; 8:1}; see also “eternal life”
• “eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God”:
• “eternal”: 2 Cor. 4:16-18; 1 John 2:17; 1 John 2:25; Matt. 24:35; 25:46; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33; 1 Cor. 15:53-54; 2 Tim. 1:10 {Heb. 11:1; 2 Pet. 3:10}
• Eve and then Adam both chose to believe Satan and disobey God:
• Every fiber of your being: Matt. 16:24; 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27; Phil 3:7-8; Deut. 4:29; 30:3; Psa. 119:2, 10, 58, 145; Jer. 3:10; 29:13 {Matt. 6:20, 24, 33; 19:16-26; Mark 8:34; 10:17-23, 29-31; Luke 9:23, 57-62; 11:9-10; 12:33; 14:26, 33; 5:11, 28; 18:18-23, 28-30; Psa. 27:8; 37:4; Acts 5:1-5; 2 Tim. 4:10; 1 John 2:15-16; Rom 14:7-8; 1 Chron. 28:9; 2 Chron. 6:38; 15:12; 31:21; Deut. 30:1-20; Isa. 55:6; Hos. 5:15; Amos. 5:4; Pro. 23:26; 1 Kings 8:48; 2 Kings 10:31; 23:3; Joel 2:12}
• Every single syllable and Word spoken by God, and written in Scripture, will come true : 14:24; 40:8; 45:23; 46:10; 55:11; Matt. 5:18; 24:35; 1 Pet. 1:25; Psa. 89:34; 119:89-90, 152; Num. 23:19; 2 Tim. 2:13
• “every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire”: Matt 3:10; 7:13; Luke 3:9
• “evil [and sin] from his [our] youth”: Gen. 8:21 {Jer. 32:30; 3:25; 2 Tim. 2:22; Job 14:1}
• Evil spirits (fallen angels and demons) who follow Satan: Matt. 25:41; Rev. 12:9; Jude 6
• Excessive care and concern for material things can be a risk to your eternal salvation:
• Excuse, however, to tolerate continued sin by members:
• Face ridicule:
• “face to face”: 1 Cor. 13:12
• “faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ”:
• “faith in Christ Jesus”: Gal. 3:26; Col. 1:4; see also “faith in Christ”
• “faith in Christ”: Heb. 11; Matt. 8:26; 14:31; 16:8; 17:20; Luke 12:28; 16:10; Rom. 1:17, 20; 4:3, 9-10; 5:1; 9:32-33; Gal. 2:20, 3:6-8, 11, 22, 24; 5:5; Gen. 15:6; Jon. 3:5; Acts 15:9; 2 Cor. 5:7; Jas. 2:17-18, 24: John 3:14-18; 5:24; 6:35, 40, 47; 7:38; 11:25; 14:6; Acts 2:21; 4:10-12; 1 Tim. 2:5-7; Matt. 7:13-14; Eph. 2:8-9; Acts 10:43; Rom. 1:16; 9:23; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Gal. 2:20; John 3:14-18; 5:24; 6:35, 40, 47; 7:38; 11:25; 14:6; Acts 2:21; 4:10-12; 1 Tim. 2:5-7; Matt. 7:13-14; Eph. 2:8-9; Acts 10:43; Rom. 1:16; 9:23; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Gal. 2:20; see also “Believing in Jesus”
• “faith tested” [paraphrase, “testing of your faith”]: Jas. 1:2-4; 1 Pet. 1:6-7; 4:12; Rev. 2:10; Rom. 5:3-4; Jas. 1:3-4, 12 {Heb. 11:17; 2 Cor. 4:17; Job 23:10; Psa. 66:10-12; Pro. 17:3; Isa. 48:10; Jer. 9:7; Zech. 13:9; Mal. 3:3; Rev. 3:10}
• “faith was [is] working [together] with his [your] works, and as a result of the works, faith was [is] perfected”: 2:14-26
• “faith without works is dead”: Jas. 2:26, 14-26
• “faith without works”: See “faith without works is dead”
• “Faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself”: Jas. 2:17; see also “faith without works is dead”
• “faith”: Eph. 2:8; Heb. 10:38; 11:1-40; Matt. 8:26; 14:31; 16:8; 17:20; Luke 12:28; 16:10; Rom. 1:17, 20; 4:3, 9-10; 5:1; 9:32-33; Gal. 2:20, 3:6-8, 11, 22, 24; 5:5; Gen. 15:6; Jon. 3:5; Acts 15:9; 2 Cor. 5:7; Jas. 2:17-18, 24 {Hab. 2:4}
• “faithful and righteous [just] to forgive us”: 1 John 1:9
• “faithful until death”: See “be faithful until death”
• “faithful”: Lam. 3:22-23; 2 Tim. 1:13; 2:13; Rom 3:3; 1 Thess. 5:24; 2 Thess. 3:3; Rev. 3:14; 21:5; 22:6 {Isa. 25:1; 1 Sam. 15:29; Hab. 2:3; Luke 21:33; Rom. 11:29; 1 Cor. 1:9; 10:13; 2 Cor. 1:18; Php. 2:8; Rev. 1:5; 1 John 1:9; 1 Pet. 4:19; Heb. 2:17; 3:6; 10:23; 11:11; Psa. 36:5; 89:1-2, 33; 146:6}
• “faithful” [God is]: Lam. 3:22-23; 2 Tim. 1:13; 2:13; Rom 3:3; 1 Thess. 5:24; 2 Thess. 3:3; Rev. 3:14; 21:5; 22:6 {Isa. 25:1; 1 Sam. 15:29; Hab. 2:3; Luke 21:33; Rom. 11:29; 1 Cor. 1:9; 10:13; 2 Cor. 1:18; Php. 2:8; Rev. 1:5; 1 John 1:9; 1 Pet. 4:19; Heb. 2:17; 3:6; 10:23; 11:11; Psa. 36:5; 89:1-2, 33; 146:6}
• Fake science: Rom. 3:4; 1:21-22; Pro. 14:12; 16:25; 1 Cor. 3:19-20; 2 Cor. 1:12; Isa. 19:11-14; 29:14-16; 44:15; Job 5:13299
• “fall [falling] away from the faith”: See “fall away”
• “fall away”: Depart from, go apostate, backslide, turn back, or quit the faith and even return to the world; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 2 Tim. 4:3-4, 10; John 6:66; Heb. 3:12; 6:4-6; 10:39; 2 Thess. 2:3, 2 Pet. 2:20-22; Matt. 24:10, Luke 8:13; 15:11-32; Pro. 14:14; Jer. 2:29; 3:22; Gen. 19:26; Rev. 2:4; 3:1, 15-16; Matt. 7:13-14, 22; 22:14; 24:5, 10-11; Mark 10:31; 13:6; Luke 13:14; 21:8; 2 Pet. 2:2 {Gal. 3:1; 1 John 2:18; 4:1; 2 John 1:7}
• “fallen”: Gen. 3:17; Rom. 8:19-22; 6:4-8
• “falling away”: See “fall away”
• False church: Rev. 13; 17; 18
• “false prophets”: Matt. 7:15; 24:11, 24; Mark 13:22; Acts 13:6; 2 Pet. 2:1; 1 John 4:1; Rev. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10
• “false weights and scales” [paraphrase, “differing weights,” false scale”]: Pro 11:1; 16:11; 20:10, 23; Mic. 6:11; Lev. 19:35-36; Deut. 25:13-15; Eze. 45:10; Hos. 12:7; Amos 8:5
• “father [little f – the devil]: John 8:44, 41; Matt. 13:38; Acts 13:10; 1 John 3:8-10, 12 {Gen. 3:15}
• “Father” [Capital F – “Abba! Father!,” “God”]: 8:14-17; Gal. 4:1-7 {Mar. 14:35}
• “feeds”:
• “fell away”: See “fall away”
• “fellow heirs”: Rom. 8:17; Gal. 3:29; Eph. 3:6; Tit. 3:7; Jas. 2:5
• “fellow partaker [partakers]”: 1 Cor. 9:23; Rev. 1:9 {Eph. 3:6}
• “fellow worker”: Rom. 16:3, 9, 21; 1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 8:23; Php. 2:25; 4:3; Col. 4:11; 1 Thess. 3:2; Phm. 1:1, 24; 3 John 1:8
• “fellowship”:
• “fiery darts” [“flaming arrows”]: 6:16 KJV
• “Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called”: 1 Tim. 6:12
• “filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb”: Luke 1:15
• “filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting”: Eph. 5:4
• “Finish the race…keep [kept] the faith”: 2 Tim. 4:7-8 ESV
• “first love”:
• “first resurrection”:
• “fisher of men”: Matt. 29:19-20; 4:19 (ESV); 1 Pet. 2:9-10
• “flaming fire”: 2 Thess. 1:7
• “flock”: John 21:15-17
• “folly”:
• “foolish”: See “foolishness”
• “foolishness before God”: 1 Cor. 3:19; see also “foolishness”
• “foolishness”: 1 Cor. 1:18-24; 2:14; Luke 24:25; Rom. 1:21; Psa. 14:1; 53:1; Pro. 28:26; Isa. 32:6; 35:8; 1 Cor. 3:18-20 {Acts 17:32; Matt. 7:24-27; Matt. 25:1-13; 2 Cor. 4:3; 2 Thess. 2:10}
• “For God is not a God of confusion”: 1 Cor. 14:33 {1 Cor. 14:40; Isa 28:10}
• “for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life”: John 3:16-17; 1 John 3:16; Rom. 5:6, 8; Rev. 14:4; 1 Cor. 15:3; 1 Pet. 3:18; Eph. 5:2
• “‘for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God’”: Rev. 3:2
• “for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord”: 1 Thess. 3:8
• “for our citizenship is in heaven”: Php. 3:20
• “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places”:
• “for the devil and his angels”: Matt. 25:41
• “for the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit”: Gal. 5:17; Matt. 26:41; Rom. 7:15, 17-19, 23-24 {Rom. 8:5-6, 13}
• “for the forgiveness of your sins” [at baptism]: Initial salvation; Acts 2:38-41; 8:36-39; 22:16; Mark 16:16; John 3:5; Gal. 3:27; 1 Pet. 3:21; Rom. 6:3-6; Tit. 3:5-6; 1 John 5:6; Eph. 5:26; see also “sins are forgiven” and “forgiveness of sins”
• “for the glory of God”:
• “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths”: 2 Tim. 4:3-4
• “for there is no other only name under which man can be saved”: Acts 4:12
• “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ”: 2 Cor. 10:3-5
• “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them”:
• “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope”: Rom. 15:4
• Forces of evil/darkness: Eph 6:12
• “forehead”:
• “forgive sins”: God’s authority; Matt. 9:6; Mark 2:7, 10; Luke 5:21, 24
• “forgiveness of sins”: Matt. 26:28; Luke 1:77; 3:3; 24:47; Acts 2:38-41; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14 {Mark 3:29; Heb. 9:22}; see also “sins are forgiven”
  “sins are forgiven”: 1 John 2:12; Col. 1:14; Rom. 4:7; 6:4; Acts 2:38-41; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18 {Matt. 9:2, 5; 26:28; Mark 2:5, 9; 3:28; Luke 1:77; 5:20, 23; 7:48; 24:47}; see also “for the forgiveness of your sins” and “forgiveness of sins”
• “forgiveness of your sins”: See “for the forgiveness of your sins”
• “fornication”: Any and all sex outside of marriage; Heb. 13:4
• “found true”:
• Free-will offering from members “heart”:
• “friend of sinners”: Matt. 11:19; Luke 7:34
• “friend”:
• “from above”:
• “from the beginning”: Zeph. 1:4-6; Num. 14:28-30; Psa. 106:7-41; Jude 5; Heb. 3:7-19; 1 Cor. 10:1-12
• “fruit of the Spirit”:
• “fulfilled”: 2:13-17; Matt. 5:17; Rom. 7:4,6-7; 10:4; Gal. 3:1-3, 17-25; 4:4-5; 5:1-4; Heb. 10:1-12; Eph. 2:15; 2 Cor. 3:3-16
• Full assurance of His promises: Jas. 1:5
• “full of grace” [God is]: John 1:14 {Acts 6:8}; see also “the grace of God”
• Full of integrity: John 1:47
• “full of mercy”:
• “Garden of Eden”: Gen. 2:16-17; 3
• “gave Himself as a ransom for all”: John 10:11, 15, 17-18; Matt. 20:28; 26:53; Mark 10:45; Luke 22:19; Gal. 1:4; 2:20; Eph. 5:2, 25; 1 Tim. 2:6, 14; Heb. 9:14; 10:9-10; 1 John 3:16 {John 2:19-21; Isa. 53:10-12; Php. 2:6-8; Tit. 2:14}; Note: This disproves the “Limited Atonement” false teaching of Calvinism. Forgiveness of sins is open to all (everyone) – on the condition you come to Christ in obedience to the gospel. Everyone has this choice, and everyone can claim the gift of eternal life.
• “gave Himself up for us”: 20:28; Mark 10:45; John 1:29; 3:16; 10:15, 17-18; 15:13; Acts 8:32; 20:28; Rom. 5:8; Eph. 2:13; 5:2, 25; 1 Pet. 2:24; 3:18; Rev. 5:9, 12; Isa. 53:7; 1 Tim. 2:6; 1 John 3:16; 4:9-10; Gal. 1:4; see also “gave Himself as a ransom for all”:
• Gave man a few simple rules to obey: 2:15-17; 26:4-5; Exo. 20:1-17; Deut. 28:1; 30:10, 15-19; Josh. 24:15; Eze. 18:5, 9, 20, 23, 31-32; 2 Chron. 12:14; 2 Pet. 3:9; Mark 8:34; Rev. 3:20; John 7:17, 14:15, 23; 15:9-10; Matt. 7:21-27; 1 John 2:3
• “gentle”:
• “get understanding”: Pro. 4:4-7; Psa. 1:2 {2 Pet. 3:17-18}
• “gift”: Isa. 53:10-12
• “give to the poor”:
• Given by God out of love and concern for our well-being:
• Gives man “knowledge” “understanding” of God:
• “glad, cheerful, thankful heart” [paraphrase]: 2 Cor. 9:7
• Glory of self: Acts 13:2; Rom. 1:1; Heb. 10:10, 14; 2 Tim. 2:21; 1 Cor. 1:2; 6:11; Acts 20:32; 26:18; John 17:19
• “glory”:
• “gluttony” [“glutton,” “gluttonous”]:
• “go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation [everyone]”: Mark 16:15; Matt. 28:19; Rom. 10:14-17; Acts 20:27 {Luke 4:18-19; 9:60; 14:21-23; 24:47; Matt. 4:19; 10:8; Mark 1:17; Acts 8:31; Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:18-24; 9:16, 2 Tim. 4:1-2; Isa. 6:8; 61:1-3; Jon. 3:2; Col. 1:25, 28}
• “God Almighty”:
• God and His Christ in heaven: Rev. 21; 22
• God and His Christ: Php. 2:12-13; 3:12-14; 2 Cor. 13:5; 2 Pet. 1:10-11; 2 Tim. 4:6-8; 1 Cor. 9:24-17; Heb. 4:1; Jude 3, 21; Rev. 2:3 in heaven: Rev. 21; 22
• “God Created” [all things]: Gen. 1-2; Exo. 20:11
• “God created man in His own image…male and female He created them”:
• God forces no-one to come to Him: John 14:15, 21-24; 15:10-14; 1 John 5:2-3 {John 3:16-17; 21:15-17}
• God has always provided evidence (“witnesses”) of His existence: 1:19-20; Psa. 19:1-4 ESV; Acts 14:15-17
• God Himself is holy, righteous, just, true, and perfect: 32:4; Isa. 6:3; 1 John 4:8
• God is a good and loving God: 55:8-9; 1 John 4:8; see also “God is love”
• “God is love”: John 3:16-17; 1 John 4:7-11, 16; 15:13; Rom. 5:8; 8:37-39; 2 Pet. 3:9; Gal. 2:20; 5:6; Eph. 2:4-5; 5:2; Psa. 86:5; 86:15; 136:26; Isa. 54:10; Lam. 3:22-23; 2 John 1:3; 1 Tim. 1:14, 2 Tim. 1:13
• “God is not a man, that He should lie”: Num. 23:19; Rom. 3:4 [Editorial note: I used to view this verse as a hypothetical, but now I see it as a statement of fact.]; Isa. 53:9; Tit. 1:2; Heb. 6:18; 1 Sam. 15:29; 2 Tim. 2:13; John 17:17; 1 John 5:20; Psa. 119:160 {Pro. 12:22}
• “God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap”: See “God is not mocked”:
• “God is not mocked”:
• “God the Father”:
• God will separate everyone who has ever lived into two groups: Matt. 25:31-46
• God with the utmost reverence, honor, respect, humility, and contriteness of heart:
• God-denying institutions:
• God’s initial creation was perfect: Gen. 1:31
• God will only allow the rebellion (in sin) of Satan and humanity to continue for a while:
• God’s Word (Scripture) daily: Psa. 1:2; Matt. 4:4
• Godly wisdom to serve God:
• “gods” [little g]: #8
• Going prodigal: Luke 15:11-32
• “good [and sure] foundation”:
• “good deeds”:
• “good tidings”: Luke 2:10 KJV; 1 Chr. 16:23; Psa. 96:2; see also “good news of great joy”
• “good news of great joy”: Luke 2:1:19; 10-11; Acts 8:12; 13:32; Rom. 10:15-16; Isa. 52:7; 61:1 {Heb. 4:2, 6; 1 Chron. 16:23; Isa. 40:9; 41:27; 52:7; 61:1; 1 Chron. 16:23}
• “good news”: See “good news of great joy”
• “good soil”:
• “good soldier of Christ Jesus”: 2 Tim. 2:3-4
• “good work”: See “good works”
• “good works”: Jas. 1:22; 2:14, 17, 21-22, 24, 26; John 15:8; Matt. 3:8; 5:16; 7:19; 9:37; 2 Tim. 3:17; 1 Cor. 15:58; Rev. 2:2; 3:2, 15-16; 14:13; Rom. 2:5-6
• “good works”: Of obedience; see “good works”
• “gossiping” [“gossip,” “gossips”]:
• “grace of God”: See “the grace of God”
• “grace”: See “the grace of God” and “full of grace”
• “greed”:
• “grow[ing] in the grace and knowledge [understanding] of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”: 2 Tim. 2:15; 3:16-17; Matt. 4:4; Psa. 1:2; 22:5; 27:11; 25:4-5, 9; 32:8; 86:11; 119:12, 27, 33-34; Rev. 3:11; Eph. 4:14; 5:6; Acts 17:10-11; Heb. 4:11; 5:12-14; 6:1; Gen. 3:13; 2 Cor. 11:3; 2 Tim. 3:13; Col. 1:9-10; 3:16; 1 Cor. 3:1-2
• Guide you into all truth: 25:4-5, 8; 43:3-4; 119:26, 33, 66, 105; Isa. 49:10; John 8:31-32; 16:13; Rom. 8:14; Rev. 7:17; Pro. 3:6; Luke 10:39­
• Half-truths:
• “hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power”: 1 Cor. 15:24
• Hard for us to understand, as it is set against the natural instincts and desires of “the flesh: Isa. 55:8-9
• “harden your heart” [like Pharaoh]:
• “hated”: Matt. 10:22; John 15:18-19; 1 John 3:13
• “having nailed it to the cross”: Col. 2:13-17; Matt. 5:17; Rom. 7:4,6-7; 10:4; Gal. 3:1-3, 17-25; 4:4-5; 5:1-4; Heb. 10:1-12; Eph. 2:15; 2 Cor. 3:3-16
• “He [I, Jesus] in you”: John 5:38; 6:56; 14:17; 20, 15:4-7; 2 Tim. 1:14; 1 John 2:14, 24, 27-28, 3:24; 4:12-13, 15-16; 2 John 2; John 6:56; 14:20; 15:4-7; Rom. 8:9, 11; 1 Cor. 3:16 {John 15:9-10; 17:21}
• He alone can save you from sin: 1 Tim. 1:15; Matt. 1:21
• He also knows what you need:
• “He died for all”: 1 Tim. 1:15; 2 Cor. 5:14-15; 1 Pet. 3:18
• “He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him [God] holy and blameless and beyond reproach”: Eph. 1:4; 5:27; Col. 1:21-23
• He has our (eternal) well-being in mind: Rom. 8:28-30
• He has said He would do in His Word: Pro. 1:7; 3:5
• He is a God of order, law, logic, rules, and intelligence: Isa. 55:8-9; Pro. 3:19-20; 8:1, 22-31; 24:3; Gen. 1:16-18; 31; Amos 4:13; 5:8; 8:9; Job 9:9; 26:7-14; 38-39; Jer. 10:12; 51:15; Psa. 8:3; 104:24; 136:5; Rom. 11:33
• He [God] is omniscient and omnipresent: 46:9-10; 55:8-9; Psa. 41:13; 44:21; 90:2; 103:17; 139:1-4; 147:5; 1 John 3:20; Matt. 10:30; Heb. 4:13; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16 {Matt. 6:27; 1 Kings 8:39; Acts 1:24}
• He [Satan] will do anything he can to cause your eternal (spiritual) death: 1 John 5:19; 8:44; 10:10; Eph. 6:16; Jas. 4:7
• “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes”: 21:4; see also no more “sin,” “suffering,” and “death”
• Hear: See “hearing”
• “heard [revealed] in the light”: Matt. 10:26-27; Mar. 4:22; Luke 8:17; 12:2-3; Job 34:21-23; Isa. 29:15; Jer. 23:24; Eccl. 12:14; 1 Cor. 4:5; Heb. 4:13; Rom. 2:16 {Rev. 6:15-16}
• “hearing” [the Gospel “message of truth”]: Rom. 10:14-17; 1:16-17; Eph. 1:13; Gal. 3:2, 5; Heb. 4:12-13; Acts 8:5, 26-35; 2 Tim. 4:2; Mark 13:10; 16:15; Matt. 28:19; Gal. 3:16 {Luke 4:18-19; 8:21; 9:60; 11:28; 14:21-23; 16:29-31; 24:47; Col. 1:6, 28; 1 Thess. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:25; Psa. 40:9; 96:3; Isa. 61:1-3; Jon. 3:2}
• “hears” [your prayers]:
• Heart for the “lost” and be a “light” to the community:
• “heaven”: 2 Pet. 3:13; 1 Cor. 15:26; 2 Tim. 1:10; Rev. 20:14; 21:1, 4
• “heavenly Father”: Matt. 5:48; 6:14, 26, 32; 15:13; 18:35; Luke 11:13; Rom. 8:15
• “heavenly”:
• “heavens and earth”: “Burned up,” “dissolved”; 2 Pet. 3:10
• “Hell”:
• “Here is the perseverance and the faith of the saints”: Rev. 13:10
• “Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus”: Rev. 14:12
• “hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’”:
• “High Priest” [our, Jesus]: Heb. 2:17; 3:1; 4:14-15; 5:10; 6:20; 7:26; 8:1; 9:11
• His Spirit which enables you to do it: Zec. 4:6; Rom. 8:13-14; Gal. 3:3; 5:16; John 15:4-5; see also “by the Spirit”
• His Spirit, reveals the things of God to us: 1 Cor. 2:12-14
• His strength and guidance going forward: Psa. 23:1
• “His will”: Luke 12:47; John 7:17; 9:31; Acts 22:14; Rom. 9:19; Eph. 1:5-11; Col. 1:9; Heb. 13:21; Jas. 1:18
• “His Word”: Mark 10:24; Luke 10:39; 24:8; John 4:41; 5:38; 8:55; Rom. 9:28; Tit. 1:3; 2 Pet. 3:7; 1 John 1:10; 2:5
• “holiness”:
• “holy angels”:
• “holy mountain” [of God, of the Lord]:
• “holy of holies”:
• “Holy Spirit” [was “poured out”]: Acts 10:45
• “Holy Spirit”: “Holy Ghost” KJV, “the Spirit of Truth,” “the Spirit of Life,” “the Spirit of Jesus,” “the Spirit of God”;
• “Holy, Holy, Holy”: Rev. 4:8; see also “holy” [God is]
• “holy” [God is]: Isa. 6:3; Rev. 3:7; 4:8; 1 John 1:5; Exo. 3:5; Lev. 11:44-45; Psa. 99:5 {1 Pet. 1:15-16; Rev. 22:11; Exo. 15:13; 26:33; Psa. 47:8; 48:1; 68:5; 106:47; Hos. 11:12; Isa. 43:3; 48:17; Jer. 51:5; Eze. 36:22; Mark 1:24; Luke 1:35; 4:34; John 6:69; Lev. 11:44-45}; see also “Holy, Holy, Holy”
• “holy and blameless”: Eph. 1:4; 5:27; Col. 1:21-23; Rom. 3:24; 5:9; 8:30; 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 2:16; Tit. 3:7
• “honor”: 2 Tim. 2:20-21; Heb. 5:4; 13:18; 1 Pet. 1:7; 2:17; Rev. 21:26
• “hope of eternal life”: see “the hope of eternal life”
• “hope”:
• “humble yourself”: Exo. 10:3
• “humble”: Php. 2:8
• Husband who leads his wife:
• “hypocrisy”: Matt. 7:21-27 {Eze. 33:30-33}
• “hypocrites”: ; see also “without hypocrisy”
• “hypocritical”: See “hypocrites”
• “I am making all things new”: 2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21:1-7; 22:1-21
• “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”: 2 Tim. 4:7-8 ESV
• I have my favorites (verses):
• “‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead’”: Rev. 3:1
• “‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance…and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, and have not grown weary’”: Rev. 2:2-3
• “‘I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance’”: Rev. 2:2
• “‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance’”: Rev. 2:19
• “‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth’”: Rev. 3:15-16
• “I run in such a way…that…I myself will not be disqualified”: 1 Cor. 9:24-27
• “i will never desert you, nor will i ever forsake you”: Heb. 13:5 {Josh. 1:5}
• “I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus”: Rev. 1:9
• “idle” [professors of faith]: 7:21; Luke 6:46; Rom. 2:13; Jas. 1:22; 2:20-26; 2 Thess. 3:6-15; 1 Tim. 5:13; Pro. 19:15 {Tit. 1:16; Matt. 12:36 KJV}
• Idleness: See “idle” professors of faith
• “idol”:
• Idolize: Make into an idle; see also “idol”
• “If someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?”: Jas. 2:14
• “If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Hi, He also will deny us”: 2 Tim. 2:12
• “ignorance”: Of what God expects from those who “call on His name”; Hos. 4:6; Pro. 1:22, 32; 14:15, 18; Rom. 1:21; 10:1-2; 16:18; Matt. 15:14; John 4:23-24; 2 Cor. 2:11; 11:3; Col. 2:8; Eph. 5:15-17; 1 Cor. 1:18-21; 14:20; Jer. 5:21{Eph. 6:11; Matt. 10:16; Gen. 3:13; 1 Tim. 1:13; 2 Tim. 2:23; Heb. 5:2; 1 John 4:1; Psa. 14:1; 73:22; 119:139, 160; Pro. 1:7; 14:12; } Hos. 4:6; Pro. 1:22, 32; 14:15, 18; Rom. 16:18; 2 Cor. 11:3; Col. 2:8; Eph. 5:15-17; 1 Cor. 14:20; Jer. 5:21{Eph. 6:11; Matt. 10:16; Gen. 3:13; 1 John 4:1; Psa. 119:139} Acts 3:17; 17:23, 30; Eph. 4:18; Heb. 9:7; 1 Pet. 1:14; 2:15; see also naïve, gullible, or “ignorant,” and “shrewd”
• “ignorant” of Church History:
• “ignorant”: see “ignorance”
• “image of the beast”: Rev. 13:11-18; 14:9-11; 15:2; 16:2; 18:4; 19:4, 20; 20:4
• “images of the beast”: See “image of the beast”
• “Immanuel”: Heb. 1:3
• “immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these”: Gal. 5:19-21
• “immortal”:
• In aggregate: Psa. 119:160
• “in an honest and good [sincere] heart”
• “in Christ”: Rom. 6:4
• “in darkness”: Dominion, power; Col. 1:13; Acts 26:15-18; Luke 1:78-79; John 1:4-5; 3:19; 8:12; 12:35; 12:46; Eph. 5:8; 6:12 {Matt. 4:16; Rom. 13:12; 2 Cor. 4:6; 6:14; 1 Pet. 2:9; Luke 22:53; 1 John 2:8; Isa. 9:2; 42:6-7; 60:1-3; 1 Thess. 5:5-8}
• “in need”: 2 Cor. 11:9; Jas. 2:15; 1 John 3:17
• “in our hearts”: 5:5; 2 Cor. 1:22; 2 Cor. 4:6; see also “abides [dwells] in you”
• “in remembrance of Me [Christ]”: See “do this in remembrance of Me [Christ]”
• “in sin”: Rom. 6:1; 1 Tim. 5:20
• “in spirit and truth”: See “worship in spirit and truth”
• “in the beginning”: Gen. 1:1
• “in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day [the day of judgment]”: 2 Tim. 4:7-8
• “in the image of God”: Gen. 1:26-27; 5:1; 9:6; Psa. 139:14; 1 Cor. 11:7
• “in the likeness of His [Jesus] resurrection”:
• “in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up”: 2 Pet. 3:10 {1 Thess. 5:1-3; Matt. 24:36-51}
• “in your [our] midst” [The Kingdom is]: Luke 17:21
• “in your midst”:
• Including your own life: John 12:25; Rom. 14:8; Luke 9:23-24
• “infant in Christ”: 1 Cor. 3:1-3; Heb. 5:12-14; 1 Pet. 2:1-2
• “inner room” [a place of quiet for prayer]: Matt. 6:5-6
• Introduce new books of Scripture: See prior chapters where the Canon of Scripture has been finalized, “completed.”
• Is all dressed up to make it appear to be good and profitable, but that is simply an illusion: Pro. 14:12; Col. 3:1-2
• “is in your midst”:
• “is the same yesterday and today and forever”: Heb. 13:8
• “is willing to do His [God’s] will”: John 7:17
• “it is finished”: John 19:30; Gen. 3:15
• “It is written, ‘man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god’”: Matt. 4:4
• It requires spiritual discernment:
• “Jehovah” [the name of God]: Exo. 6:3 KJV, Psa. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4; see also “YHWH”
• Jesus is the Lord God Himself:
• Jesus needed to pray and that He prayed often:
• “Jesus of Nazareth”: Matt. 1:1; 2:20-23; 18:25; 21:11; 26:71; Mark 1:9, 24; Luke 1:26-32; 2:39; 4:34; 18:37; John 1:45-46; Acts 10:38
• Jesus prayed expressly for unity among believers: John 17:11, 19-21 {Eph. 4:3-6}
• Jesus was God manifest in the flesh: John 1:14; 1 Tim. 3:16
• Jesus was treated likewise:
• Jesus will take your sins: Isa. 53:10-12
• John had a moment of doubt: Matt. 11:2-6
• “joy”:
• “Judge” [Jesus as your]: Matt. 28:18; 1 Cor. 15:23-24
• “judgment”: Acts 17:30-31; Rom. 2:12; see also “the day of judgment”
• “just as through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death through sin”: Rom. 5:12, 19; 1 Cor. 15:21 {Gen. 3:6}
• “justice,” “law,” “wisdom,” and order [God’s, God is]: 18:25; Deut. 32:4; Psa. 1:2; 11:6-7; 19:7; 33:5; 37:27-29; 51:4-5; 67:4; 140:12; Isa. 9:7; Matt. 12:18; 1 Pet. 1:17; Gal. 6:7-8; 1 Cor. 14:33; Acts 17:31; 2 Tim. 4:8; Pro. 3:19; 24:3; Job 38:37; Jer. 10:12
• “justified” [before God, we become in Christ]:
• “keep My [His] commandments”:
• “keep seeking the things above, where Christ is”: Col. 3:1
• Keep the entire Mosaic Law perfectly, from birth until death:
• Keep your white garments clean: See “white garments”
• “kindness”: Tit. 3:4; Lam. 3:22-23
• King David prayed often in times of distress: 1 Thess. 5:16-18; Php. 4:6-7; Acts 1:14
• “King” [our, Jesus]:
• “Kingdom of God”: See “the Kingdom of God”
• “Kingdom of Heaven”: See “the Kingdom of Heaven”
• “know them by their fruits”:
• “lack of knowledge”: Hos. 4:6; 2 Cor. 2:11; 4:3-6; Acts 8:30-31; 17:30; Isa. 1:3; 3:12; 5:13; 27:11; 45:20; Jer. 4:22; 5:3-4, 21; 8:7-9; Job 4:21; 36:12; Hos. 8:14; Pro. 1:7, 22, 29-32; 4:5-13; 5:12-13; 9:10; 16:16; 19:2; 23:23; Matt. 15:14; 23:16-26; Psa. 49:20; 111:10; 119:139; 1 Cor. 1:18-25; 2:14; 3:19; John 1:5; Eph. 4:18
• “Last Day”: John 6:34-40; Rom. 8:37-39; John 19:30; Rev. 22:20-21
• “last trumpet”:
• “law”:
• “lay aside the old self”: Eph. 4:22
• Lead you into truth: John 16:13
• Leadership and “headship” of Christ:
• Leads to “death”:
• Leads to “life”: Isa. 35:8; John 14:6; Matt. 7:13-14
• Learn what “the Word of God” actually says: Psa. 1:2
• “left [leave] everything behind”: Luke 5:11, 28; 9:23, 59-62; 14:33; 18:22; Matt. 10:21; 16:24; 19:21, 27-29; Mark 8:34
• “led astray”: Matt. 24:4, 24; Acts 20:30; Rom. 16:17-18, Eph. 4:14; 5:6; Col. 2:4, 8, 18; Gen. 3:13 {1. Tim 4:1; 2 Thess. 2:3}
• Legal dominion (ownership) “of this world” (Earth) was deeded over to Satan:
• “legions of angels”:
• “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works”: Matt. 5:16
• “let your requests be made known to God”: Php. 4:6-7
• “Let your words be few”: Ecc. 5:2
• “life” [God is]: 1 Tim. 6:13
• “lights in the world”: Php. 2:15
• “light” [God is]:
• “light”: Gen. 1:1-2:25; Pro. 3:19; 8:25-26; 16:4; John 1:1-3; Psa. 24:1-2; 50:10-12; 90:2; 96:5; 102:25; 104:1-5; 115:15; 146:6; 1 Cor. 8:6; Isa. 40:21-31; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; 51:13; Job 38-39; Heb. 1:2, 10; Jer. 10:12; 32:17; 51:15; Acts 14:15; 17:24; Rev. 4:11; Exo. 20:11; Eph. 3:9; Col. 1:16-17; Isa. 40:22-28; 42:5; 45:18; Neh. 9:6; John 1:5; 3:19-21; 1:4, 9-11; 8:12; 12:35, 46; Matt. 4:16; Luke 1:79; Acts 26:15-18; Rom. 13:12; 2 Cor. 4:6; Eph. 5:8; Col. 1:13; 1 Pet. 2:9; 1 John 2:8 {Eph. 6:12}
• “like a thief in the night”:
• “like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation”:
• “line upon line”: See “precept upon precept”
• “live together with Him”: 1 Thess. 5:10
• “living and true God”:
• “living stone”: See “living stones”
• “living stones”: 1 Pet. 2:4-5 {2 Cor. 3:3}
• “Looking back”: Gen. 19:26; Luke 9:62
• “Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”: 2 Pet. 1:8, 11, 14, 16; 2:20; 3:2, 18; Acts 2:36; 10:36; 11:17; 15:26; 20:21; 28:31; Rom. 1:4, 7; 5:1, 11, 21; 6:23; 7:25; 8:39; 13:14; 15:6, 30; 16:24; 1 Cor. 1:7-10; 6:11; 8:5; 15:31, 57; 2 Cor. 1:2-3; 4:5; 8:9; 13:14; Gal. 1:3; 6:14, 18; Eph. 1:2-3, 17; 3:11; 5:20; 6:23-24; Php. 1:2; 2:11; 3:8, 20; 4:23; Col. 1:3; 2:6; 1 Thess. 1:1, 3; 5:9, 23, 28; 2 Thess. 1:1-2, 12; 2:1, 14, 16; 3:6, 12, 18; 1 Tim. 1:2, 12, 14; 6:3, 14; 2 Tim. 1:2; Philem. 1:3, 25; Jas. 1:1; 2:1; 1 Pet. 1:3; Jude 4, 17, 21, 25 { Luke 1:69; 2:11; Isa. 9:6; Matt. 1:21; Gal. 4:4-5; 2 Tim. 1:9-10; Tit. 2:10-14; 1 John 4:14}
• “Lord and Savior”: See “Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”
• “Lord God of Hosts”:
• “Lord God”: Gen. 2:4; Exo. 6:2-3 (KJV, NASB, ESV); 3:13-14; Gen. 15:2; Note: Hebrew is read right to left
• Lord, I show you my faith by my works: Jas 2:18
• “Lord,” “King”: See “Lord” and “King”
• “Lord’s Day”:
• “Lord” and “King”: 1 Tim. 6:15; Rev. 17:14; 19:16; John 17:2; Eph. 1:19-23; Col. 2:10; Jude 25; Rev. 19:16 {Matt. 27:37; John 19:19; Mark 15:26; Luke 23:38}
• “Lord”:
• “Lord”:
• Loss of friends, co-workers, even loved ones and family members: Matt. 10:21
• “lost”: Matt 10:6; 15:24; 18:11; Luke 15:4-6, 9, 24, 32; 19:10
• “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”: Matt. 5:44-45; 2 Cor. 1:10-11; Col. 4:2-4; 1 Tim. 2:1-4; Jas. 5:16; 1 Thess. 1:2-3
• “Love your neighbor[s] as yourself”:
• “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control”: Gal. 5:22-23
• “love” [God is]: John 14:15, 23; 2 John 1:6; 1 John 2:3-6; 5:2-3; John 15:9-10; Eph. 5:2; Tit. 3:4
• “love” [all who come]:
• “love” [for “brothers” and “sisters” in Christ]:
• “loving”: See “Love your neighbors as yourself,” and “love” for “brothers” and “sisters” in Christ
• “lukewarm” [“apostate”]: Rev. 3:15-16
• “lust of the eyes”: See “the lust of the eyes”
• “lust of the flesh”: See “the lust of the flesh”
• “lying”:
• “made known”: See “the day of judgment”; John 15:15; Acts 2:28; 17:30-31; Rom. 2:5, 16; 14:12; 16:26; Eph. 1:9; 3:5, 10; 2 Pet. 1:16; Matt. 10:15; 11:22, 24; 12:36 {2 Pet. 2:9; 3:7; Rom. 1:4; 1 John 4:17; 1 Cor. 4:5; 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Tim. 4:1; Jude 14-15; Gal. 4:7}
• “make atonement”:
• “make straight”: John 1:23
• “Make your calling and election sure”: 2 Pet. 1:10 KJV
• “maker of heaven and earth”:
• “makes all things new”: See “I am making all things new”
• “male and female”:
• Manage responsibly [finances, giving]: 1 Tim. 5:8
• Man wanting to be his own god:
• “many”: Matt. 7:13-14, 22; 22:14; 24:5, 10-11; Mark 10:31; 13:6; Luke 13:14; 21:8; 2 Pet. 2:2 {Gal. 3:1; 1 John 2:18; 4:1; 2 John 1:7}
• “mark”: King David writes about this in Psalm 23: “You have anointed my head with oil”; and Revelation 7:3 says: “sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.” These verses speak symbolically of being marked as belonging to Christ, being “sealed” by the Holy Spirit, for those having accepted Christ by being born again of the Spirit and following Him in mind, body, and spirit. Note that this is not a literal mark placed on your forehead as some falsely teach; see also “the mark of the beast”
• “marks”: See “mark”
• “maturing”: Heb. 6:1; 2 Pet. 3:17-18
• May not be tomorrow: Luke 12:16-21
• “mediator” [Jesus]: See “the Mediator”
• “meditate”: Think on, contemplate deeply, pray over; Psa. 1:2; 40:8; 112:1; 119:11, 15, 35, 47-48, 72, 92, 97-99; Job. 23:12; Jer. 15:16; Matt. 4:4; Josh. 1:8 {2 Tim. 3:16-17; Pro. 1:7; 9:10; 16:16; 23:23}
• Meet on the Lord’s Day:
• “meet the Lord [Him] in the air”:
• “men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil”: John 3:19
• “merciful” [God is “full of grace” towards us]: See “mercy”
• “mercy”: Mercy is not getting something that you do deserve, i.e., a punishment or sentence; John 1:14, 16; Eph. 2:4-5; 8-9; Rom. 3:24; Tit. 3:5-7; Num. 14:18; Lam. 3:22-23; Exo. 34:6; Psa. 5:7; 86:5; 86:15; Jon. 4:2; Lam. 3:22-23 {Psa. 30:5; 36:5; 89:1-2, 33; 130:7; Isa 54:8-10; Lam. 3:31-32; Rom. 1:7; 1 Tim. 1:2; Deut. 4:31}; see also “the grace of God”
• “message of truth” [“word of truth” KJV]: See “the message of truth” and “the Word of God”
• “Messiah”: See “the Messiah”
• “minister” and “priest”: Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 1 Pet. 2:9
• “minister”: See “minister” and “priest”
• “ministering spirits”: Heb. 1:14; 13:2; Matt. 4:11
• “miracles”:
• Modern-day “Pharisees”: See “Pharisees”
• More than Him [liking the things of this world more than Him]: Matt. 13:7; 16:24-26; Mark 4:7; 8:34; Luke 8:7, 14; 9:23; 14:26, 33; 17:33; 2 Tim. 2:3
• “most holy”: Luke 1:35; Jude 20
• “motives”: 1 Cor. 4:5; Pro. 16:2; 21:2; 5:21; 24:12; 1 Sam. 16:7; Jer. 17:10; Luke 16:15 {Dan. 5:27}
• “Mount Zion”:
• “mountains”:
• “My Father’s Kingdom”: Matt. 26:29
• “My Kingdom”: Luke 22:30
• “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever”: Gen. 6:3
• “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts”: Isa. 55:8-9
• “My yoke is easy and My burden is light”: Matt. 11:30
• “myths”: 1 Tim. 1:4; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Tit. 1:14
• Naïve, gullible, or “ignorant”: Hos. 4:6; Pro. 1:22, 32; 14:15, 18; Rom. 16:18; 2 Cor. 2:7; 11:3; Col. 2:8; Eph. 5:15-17; 1 Cor. 14:20; Jer. 5:21{Eph. 6:11; Matt. 10:16; Gen. 3:13; 1 John 4:1; Psa. 119:139}; see also “ignorance” and “shrewd”
• “narrow way” [“the way is narrow”]: 7:13-14; Luke 13:24; 22:14; see also “strait” and “enter through the narrow gate”
• “neither hot nor cold”:
• “never pay back evil for evil to anyone”: Rom. 12:17-21; Heb. 10:30; Pro. 20:22; Matt. 5:39; 1 Thess. 5:15; 1 Pet. 3:8-9
• “never take [seek/exact] your [our] own revenge”: Matt. 5:43-44; 6:2-3; Psa. 41:1; Jas. 3:13-18; Rom. 12:17, 19; Gal. 2:10; Jas. 2:1-6
• New and changed person:
• “new creature”:
• “new heart”:
• “New Jerusalem” is also equated to the “bride” of Christ (i.e., the church): Rev. 21:2; see also “bride” and “New Jerusalem”
• “New Jerusalem”: ; see also “bride” and “New Jerusalem” is also equated to the “bride” of Christ (i.e., the church)
• “newness of life”: Rom. 6:4; 2 Cor. 3:6
• “new Spirit”:
• Nineveh repented of their sinful ways: Jon. 1:1-3:9
• “no darkness at all” [in God]: 6:3; Rev. 4:8-10; Gal. 5:9; 1 John 1:5; 3:5; Psa. 5:4; 45:7; Heb. 4:15 {Jas. 1:13-14; 1 John 4:6; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:22; Tit. 1:2}
• No favoritism due to appearances:
• “No longer walk”: John 6:66
• No matter what comes their way:
• No more “sin,” “suffering,” and “death”:
• “no one comes to the Father but through Me [Jesus]”:
• No person in human history has been able to do that [live a sinless life] except Jesus:
• No “righteousness” of our own: Rom. 3:10
• Nor however the mind of man conjures up: Rom. 10:2
• “Not be disqualified”: 1 Cor. 9:27
• “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts.’”: 4:6
• Not by our own power, might, or strength: Zec. 4:6; John 15:4-5; see also “by the Spirit”
• Not establish man-made positions and titles: Matt. 23:5-12
• “not forsaking our own assembling together”: Heb. 10:25
• Not have women in positions of leadership, teaching, or authority over men:
• “Not that I have already obtained it…but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet…I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”: Phil. 3:12-14
• Not to pray to Mary, the dead, or the Saints, etc.:
• “not wishing for any to perish [in judgment] but for all to come to repentance”: See “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
• Note that obedience was also required in the OT: 2:15-17; 26:4-5; Exo. 20:1-17; Deut. 28:1; 30:10, 15-19; Josh. 24:15; Eze. 18:5, 9
• “nothing hidden” [from God]: Matt. 10:26-27; Mar. 4:22; Luke 8:17; 12:2-3; Job 34:21-23; Isa. 29:15; Jer. 23:24; Eccl. 12:14; 1 Cor. 4:5; Heb. 4:13; Rom. 2:16; 8:27 {Rev. 6:15-16}
• “Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love”: 2 Pet. 1:5-7
• “obedience” [to God, the gospel, commandments of Christ, etc.]: John 14:15, 21, 23-24; 15:9-14; Matt. 7:21-27; 12:50; Mark 8:34; 1 John 2:3; 5:2-3; 6:23; Tit. 1:2; 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:3; see also Note that obedience was also required in the OT
• “obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” [Jesus was]: See “obedient to the point of death”
• “obedient to the point of death”: Php. 2:8
• “obedient to” “the Father” in all things: See “obedient to the point of death”
• “obedient”: See “obedience”
• “obedient to”: See “obedience”
• “obedient to” [the will of God the Father, Jesus was]: See “obedient to the point of death”
• “of faith and love”:
• “of this world” [which we are not of]: Rom. 12:2; John 15:16, 19; 17:14-16
• Old self to contend with:
• “on a cross”: Acts 5:30; 10:39; Php. 2:8
• “on high”: Luke 24:49; Eph. 4:8; Heb. 1:3
• “one body, one Spirit…one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God”: Eph. 4:5
• One God in Three Persons: John 1:18; 4:24; 2 Cor. 3:17; Gal. 1:26; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 2:18; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16; 1 John 5:7; Rev. 1:4-5 {Col. 1:15; Isa. 48:16}
• “one mediator also between God and men” [Jesus]: 1 Tim. 2:5; 8:6; 9:15; 12:24
• “only begotten Son”: John 3:16-17
• Only in God can life be found: Gen. 2:7, 9; John 3:16-17, 36; Rom. 4:17; 6:22-23; Eph. 4:18; Col. 3:3; 1 Tim. 6:13; 2 Tim. 1:1; 1 John 5:11-13; Jude 21; Rev. 7:17; 22:1, 19
• “out of darkness [and] into His marvelous light”: 1 Pet. 2:9
• “outer darkness”: See “the outer darkness, in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”
• “overseers” [elders]: 1 Tim. 3:1-7
• “paradise”: Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7; 21:4-5
• Parents who raise their children:
• “pass away”:
• “passing away” [this world]: 1 Cor. 7:31, 1 John 2:15-17; 2 Pet. 3:10-11; Matt. 6:19-21 {1 Cor. 2:6; Matt. 5:18; 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 16:17; 21:33; Rev. 21:1; 2 Cor. 4:18; Luke 33-34}
• “pastors”:
• “patience” [of God]: See “patient” [God is]
• “patient” [God is]: 2 Pet. 3:8-9; Gen. 6:3; Exo. 34:6; 1 Pet. 3:20; Rom. 2:4-5; 9:22; Psa. 86:15 {Isa. 30:18; Hab. 2:3; 2 Pet. 3:14-15; Mic. 2:7; 1 Cor. 13:4; Heb. 10:37; 1 Tim. 1:16; Psa. 90:4; Acts 17:30}
• Paul and James, both inspired writers: Eph. 2:8-10 (Paul); Rom. 3:28 (Paul); Jas. 2:17, 24 (James)
• Paul could have still been “disqualified”: 1 Cor. 9:24-27
• “pay back evil for evil to anyone”: See “never pay back evil for evil to anyone”
• “Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you”: 1 Tim. 4:16
• “peace and safety”: 1 Thess. 5:2-3; Matt. 24:36-51
• “peace”:
• “peaceable”:
• “penalty”: 2 Thess. 1:9; Heb. 2:2
• “Pentecost”:
• “perfect love [of God] casts out fear”: 1 John 4:18
• “perfect” [Gods is]: Deut. 32:4; Psa. 19:7; 1 Pet. 1:19; 2:22-24; 3:18; 1 John 1:5; 2:2; 2 Cor. 5:21 {Heb. 4:15; 9:14, Isa. 53:4-6, 9-12; John 14:30; 1 John 4:10}
• “perfection” [“be perfect”]: 5:48
• “persecution for Christ’s sake”: Matt. 5:10-12; 10:22-25; 2 Cor. 12:10
• “persecution”:
• “perseverance”: See “persevere”
• “persevere” (in faith): Remains faithful, endures; Php. 3:12-14; 1 Cor. 9:24-27; 16:13; Luke 8:15; 21:19; Matt. 10:22; 25:23; Heb. 3:5-6; 4:1; 10:36, 39; 12:1-2; 2 Tim. 3:10-12; 4:7-8; 1 Pet. 4:12-14; 2 Pet. 2:20-22; 3:3; Gal. 6:9; Jas. 1:2-4, 12; 5:11; Rom. 5:3-5; 15:4; Rev. 2:2-3, 10, 19, 26-28; 3:10-11; 12:11; 1 Tim. 4:16; 1 Thess. 3:8 {1 Cor. 15:58}; see also perseverance in the OT: Heb. 3:16-19; 1 Cor. 10:1-12; Zeph. 1:6; Jude 1:5; Josh. 1:9
• “persevered”: See “persevere”
• “persevering”: See “persevere”
• Peter asked Jesus how many times he should forgive those who sinned against him: Matt. 18:21-22
• “petitions”: Php. 4:6
• “Pharisees”: Matt. 16:6, 11-12; 23:13-15, 23-29; Mark 8:15; Luke 11:39-43, 53; 12:1{Matt. 3:7; 12:14; 22:15; Mark 3:6; Luke 7:30; 11:53; John 11:57; 12:42; Rev. 2:9; 3:9; Php. 3:2; Acts 23:3} 2 Cor. 11:3; 2 Pet. 2:1; 3:17; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; Luke 21:8; Rev 2:4, 20; 3:11; Acts 20:28-30; Heb. 13:9; 2 Tim. 4:4; Matt. 24:10-13; 16:6, 11-12; 23:13-15, 23-29; Mark 8:15; Luke 11:39-43, 53; 12:1 {Matt. 3:7; 12:14; 22:15; Mark 3:6; Luke 7:30; 11:53; John 11:57; 12:42; Rev. 2:9; 3:9; Php. 3:2; Acts 23:3};
• Philip did to the Ethiopian: Acts 8:26-40
• Physical death: Gen. 3:19; 23:19; 25:8-10; 50:13; Luke 16:22, …
• “pierced for our transgressions”: Isa. 53:5 ESV; Rom. 5:8
• “pilgrimage”: 1 Pet. 2:11 KJV
• “place of [eternal] torment”: See “place of torment”
• “place of torment”:
• “please God, not man” [paraphrase]: Gal. 1:10; Acts 5:29 {Josh. 24:15}
• “poor in spirit”: Contrite; humble; Matt. 5:3
• “poured out”: Acts 2:17-23; 10:45; Rom. 5:5
• “power”:
• “praise” and “thankfulness” [to God and His Christ]:
• Pray again with persistence:
• “Pray without ceasing”: 1 Thess. 5:16-18; Luke 18:1; Eph. 6:18; Col. 4:2; 1 Pet. 4:7; Php. 4:6-7 {Rom. 1:9-10; 12:12; Php. 1:4; Col. 1:3; 4: 12; 1 Thess. 1:2; 2 Thess. 1:11; Php. 1:4; 1 Tim. 2:1-2, 8}
• Prayer is something a Christian does constantly:
• Prayer ties together the various aspects of the Christian life:
• Prayer: Jude 20-21
• “prayer”:
• Praying for others:
• “preach [present and teach] the word”: See “preach the word”
• “preach [share] the gospel to every creature [person]”: Mark 16:15
• “preach the word”: Jas. 3:1; 2 Tim. 2:15; 4:1-2; Acts 4:31; 8:30-35; Mark 16:15; Matt. 4:19; 5:14-16; 28:19-20; Luke 4:18-19; 9:60; Rom. 1:16; 10:15; Psa. 40:9; Isa. 61:1; Jon. 3:2; Col. 1:25, 28-29
• “preachers”:
• “preaching of the gospel”:
• “preaching the gospel of God”:
• “preaching the gospel”: Acts 8:25; 10:36; 15:35; 1 Cor. 2:4; Col. 1:25
• “precept upon precept”: Isa 28:9-13 ESV; Rom. 15:4 {John 5:39, 46; Luke 16:27-31}
• “prepare a place for you”: John 14:2-3, 18-23; Matt. 25:34; 1 Thess. 4:16-17 {2 Cor. 5:8; Php. 1:23; Rev. 22:1-21}
• “press on to maturity”: 6:1-2
• “Press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”: Php. 3:14
• “pressed on to maturity”: See “press on to maturity”
• “pride” [of Satan]:
• “pride of life”: 1 John 2:16; see also “the lust of the flesh”
• “priest”: Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 1 Pet. 2:9
• Professing faith in Christ: Acts 8:36; 10:47; 16:33; 18:8
• “promise of life”: 2 Tim. 1:1
• Prosperity gospel” false teaching:
• “Prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves”: Jas. 1:22
• “prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour”: 1 John 5:19
• “purchased”: Redeem, pay ransom; Rom. 1:1; 6:22; Col. 3:23-24; 1 Pet. 2:16; 1:13-16; 2 Cor. 6:4; Acts 16:17 {John 15:14-15; Matt. 12:49-50} Matt. 12:18; 20:28; Mark 10:44-45; John 1:14; 13:3-16; Matt. 26:42; Php. 2:5-11; Psa. 22:6; Isa. 42:1; 50:5-6; 52:14; 53:2-3, 11; Rom. 15:3, 8; 2 Cor. 8:9; Heb. 2:9-18; 12:2; 1 Pet. 1:18-21; Gal. 3:13; Acts 20:28; Luke 1:68, 74; Rev. 1:5; 5:9; 14:3-4; Heb. 12:10; Job 19:25; Psa. 19:14; 31:5; 78:35; 106:10; 107:2; 130:8; Isa. 41:14; 43:14; 44:6, 24; 47:4; 48:17; 59:20; Tit. 2:14, Isa. 35:9; 43:1; 44:22; 62:12; Exo. 15:16; Deut. 7:8; 15:15; Jer. 15:21; 31:11; Mic. 4:10; Hos. 13:14
• “pure”:
• “purple”: Luke 16:19; Acts 16:14 {Rev. 17:4; 18:12, 16}
• “put on immortality”:
• “put on the full armor of God”: Eph. 6:10-17
• “put on” [Christ]:
• “put to death by hanging Him on a cross”: Acts 2:36; 4:10; 5:30; Eph. 2:16; Matt. 27:27-50; 28:5; Mark 15:24-25, 32; 16:6; Luke 23:33; 24:7, 20; John 19:16, 18, 20; 1 Cor. 2:8; 2 Cor. 13:4; Gal. 3:1; 5:24; Rev. 11:8
• “quarrelsome”:
• “quench [grieve] the Spirit”:
• “quickly”: Rev. 22:7, 12, 20
• “raise him [you] up”: See “raise him [you] up on the last day [the day of judgment]”
• “raise him [you] up on the last day [the day of judgment]”: John 6:35-40, 44, 54; {2 Tim. 1:1}
• “raise up”: See “raise him [you] up”
• “raised from the dead”: Acts 3:15; Rom. 6:4; 8:11
• “raised imperishable”:
• “raised up”:
• “ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing” [paraphrase]: See “wolves”
• “ravenous wolves”: See “wolves”
• Re-baptized into “truth” myself: John 4:24
• Re-baptized into truth and the correct gospel: John 4:23-24; Jackson, Wayne. “Do I Need to Be Re-baptized?” ChristianCourier.com. Access date: July 2, 2022. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/656-do-i-need-to-be-re-baptized
• Re-baptized into truth: See Jackson, Wayne. “Do I Need to Be Re-baptized?” ChristianCourier.com. Access date: July 2, 2022. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/656-do-i-need-to-be-re-baptized
• Reading and studying Scripture: 1:2; 119:11, 15; Matt. 4:4 {Josh. 1:8}
• Reading, studying, and meditating (contemplating) Scripture each day: See Reading and studying Scripture
• “reasonable”:
• Rebelled against God [Satan and his angels]: 1 John 3:8; 18:17-18?; 28:15?; Isa. 14:12-15? Matt. 25:41; Rev. 12:9; Jude 6
• “rebuking,” “refuting,” “reproving,” “exhorting,” and “correcting”: 2 Tim. 3:16; Tit. 1:9, 13-14; 2:15
• “recompensed for his deeds in the body [flesh]”: 2 Cor. 5:10; Gal. 6:7
• “reconciled to God”: Rom. 5:10; 2 Cor. 5:18, 20; Col. 1:22
• “reconciled”: Rom. 5:10; 2 Cor. 5:18-20; Eph. 2:16; Col. 1:20-22
• “redeem”: Purchase, pay ransom; make atonement for; 1 Pet. 1:18-21; Gal. 3:13; Acts 20:28; Luke 1:68, 74; Rev. 1:5; 5:9; 14:3-4; Heb. 12:10; Job 19:25; Psa. 19:14; 31:5; 78:35; 106:10; 107:2; 130:8; Isa. 41:14; 43:14; 44:6, 24; 47:4; 48:17; 59:20; Tit. 2:14, Isa. 35:9; 43:1; 44:22; 62:12; Exo. 15:16; Deut. 7:8; 15:15; Jer. 15:21; 31:11; Mic. 4:10; Hos. 13:14; 1 Tim. 1:15; Matt. 1:21
• “redeemed”: See “redeem”
• “Redeemer” [my]: Job 10:25; Psa. 78:35; Pro. 23:11; see also “redeem”
• “redemption”: See “redeem”
• “refusing” [“refuse”]: Heb 12:25
• “reigning”:
• “rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation”: Rom. 12:12
• “rejoicing [rejoice] that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name”: 1:2-4; Acts 5:41; 16:23-25; Matt. 5:10-12; Luke 6:22; 1 Pet. 4:13-16 {Rom. 5:3; 8:18; 2 Thess. 1:5; 2 Cor. 12:10; Php. 1:29; Heb. 10:34}
• “Repent”: Matt 3:2; 4:17; Mark 1:15; Luke 5:31-32; 13:3; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 11:18; 17:30-31; 20:21; 26:20; 2 Tim. 2:25-26; Pro. 3:7 {Matt. 9:13; Luke 15:7, 10; 24:47; Heb. 6:1}
• “repentance”: See “Repent”
• “Repenting”: See “Repent”
• “rescue”: Free us; Gal. 1:4; Matt. 18:11; Luke 19:10; John 8:48; 1 Tim. 1:15; 2 Tim. 4:18; Col. 2:15 {Acts 7:34; Eph. 2:1-2; Matt. 27:43; 1 Thess. 1:10; 2 Pet. 2:9; Psa. 6:4, 18:19; 22:8; 34:7; 50:15; 71:2; 72:14; 82:4; 91:15; 116:8; 119:153; 136:24; 140:1; 144:7; Rom. 7:24; 14:9}
• “rescued”: See “rescue”
• “resist the devil”: Jas 4:7
• “respect what is right in the sight of all men”:
• “rest”:
• Restore His creation to a state of perfection (glory): Without sin, suffering, and death; Rev. 21:3-4
• “restored the fortunes of Job”: Job 24:10
• “resurrected”: Rom. 6:4; 2 Cor. 3:6; Rev. 20:6
• “resurrection from the dead”: Rom. 1:4; 1 Cor. 15:12, 21; 1 Pet. 1:3; Acts 4:2; 26:23
• “resurrection”:
• “righteous” [God is]: 18:25; Acts 17:31; Rev. 16:5; 19:2, 11, 2 Tim. 4:8; Psa. 7:11; 9:8; 35:24; 50:6; 72:2; 96:13; 98:9 {Psa. 72:2; Isa. 11:3-4; 51:5; Jer. 11:20; 1 Pet. 2:23}
• “righteous” [we become in Christ]:
• “righteously” [God will judge]: Justly, fairly; Gen. 18:25; Acts 17:31; Isa. 11:3-4; John 7:24; 8:15-16; Psa. 7:11; 37:6; 94:15; 1 Pet. 1:17; 2:23; Rev. 16:5; 19:2, 11; 2 Tim. 4:8
• “righteousness” [of Christ]:
• “roadside” [soil]: Luke 8:5; Matt. 13:4, 19; Mark 4:4
• “Rocky Soil”:
• “royal priesthood”: Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 1 Pet. 2:9
• “rule[ing] all the nations with a rod of iron”: Rev. 12:5
• “ruling” and “reigning” [paraphrase]: Eph. 1:20-21; Rev. 1:5; 12:5; 19:15
• Sabbath Keeper” “wolves”: See “wolves”
• “sacrifice”: Isa. 53:5; Rom. 5:8
• “sacrificial”:
• “sacrificing [sacrificed] to idols”:
• “said in the dark”:
• “saints”:
• “salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ”: 1 Thess. 5:8-9; 2 Tim. 3:15; Heb. 2:3
• “salvation”: Matt. 26:28; Luke 1:77; 3:3; 24:47; Acts 2:38; 5:31; 10:43; 13:38; 26:18; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14 {Mark 3:29; Heb. 9:22}
• “sanctification”: Rom. 6:19, 22; 1 Cor. 1:2, 30; 6:11; 1 Thess. 4:3-7; 2 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 2:11; 10:10-14, 29; 12:14; John 17:19; Acts 20:32; 26:18; 2 Tim. 2:21 {1 Tim. 4:4-5}
• “sanctified”: Set apart; Rom. 6:19, 22; 1 Cor. 1:2, 30; 6:11; 1 Thess. 4:3-7; 2 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 2:11; 10:10-14, 29; 12:14; John 17:19; Acts 20:32; 26:18; 2 Tim. 2:21 {1 Tim. 4:4-5}
• Satan may not have the same latitude to deceive as in the past: Rev. 20:1-3 (Jesus’ victory on the cross has “bound” Satan as Jesus “rules and reigns” in His Kingdom, however, we may well be near the end again when Satan is permitted more latitude to “deceive the nations”)
• “Satan” [the devil]: 2 Tim. 2:26; 1 John 3:8-10, 12; 5:19; 8:44 {Matt. 13:38; Acts 13:10; 2 Cor. 2:11; 2. Thess. 2:9-12; 1 Tim. 3:7; Rev. 12:9; 20:2-3; 1 Chron. 21:1; Jas. 4:7; 1 Pet. 5:8}
• “saved”:
• “Savior”: Luke 1:69; 2:11; Isa. 9:6; Matt. 1:21; Gal. 4:4-5; 2 Tim. 1:9-10; Tit. 2:10-14; 1 John 4:14
• Science cannot measure, calculate, or understand “spiritual” things: Heb. 11:3, John 1:18
• Scripture can be hard to understand in places: 2 Pet. 3:14-18
• “sealed”:
• “searches the heart”: Rom. 8:27
• “seated at the right hand of God [the Father]”:
• “secret”:
• See the examples of King David in the Psalms:
• “see the Son of Man [Jesus] coming in His kingdom”:
• “seed” [the Word of God]:
• “seek [and value] the things”: See “seek the things above”
• “seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God”: See “seek the things above”
• “seized” [your “crown of life”]: 3:11 ESV; see also “taken”
• “separated” [from God]: Rom. 8:35-39; Matt. 19:6; Rom. 9:3; 2 Thess. 1:9; see also “away from [God]”
• Separation from God: See “separated” [from God] and “away from [God]”
• Sermon on the Mount: Matt. 5:1-7:27
• “servant”: Matt. 12:18; 20:28; Mark 10:44-45; John 1:14; 13:3-16; Matt. 26:42; Php. 2:5-11; Psa. 22:6; Isa. 42:1; 50:5-6; 52:14; 53:2-3, 11; Rom. 15:3, 8; 2 Cor. 8:9; Heb. 2:9-18; 12:2
• Serve God and God alone: Psa. 14:1
• Serve others as if they were yourself: Matt. 22:39; Rom. 13:9; Gal. 5:14; Jas. 2:8
• “serve”: See “service” [for Christ]
• “service” (“good works”) for the Lord: See “service” [for Christ]
• “service” [for Christ]:
• “serving”: See “service” [for Christ]
• “set apart”: Sanctified; Rom. 6:19, 22; 1 Cor. 1:2, 30; 6:11; 1 Thess. 4:3-7; 2 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 2:11; 10:10-14, 29; 12:14; John 17:19; Acts 20:32; 26:18; 2 Tim. 2:21 {1 Tim. 4:4-5}
• “set your mind on the things above [heavenly things], not on the things that are on earth [this material world]”: Col. 3:1-9; Php. 4:8; Gal. 6:7-8
• “sets you free”: Rom. 6:21-23 8:2; John 8:31-36
• “seven”: See “seventy times seven”
• “seventh angel”:
• “seventy times seven”: Matt. 16:21-22
• “severed [severing yourself] from Christ”: Gal. 5:4
• Share the gospel: Mark 16:15; Matt. 28:19; Luke 14:21-23 {Mark 13:10; Psa. 22:27; 67:1-2; 96:3; 98:3; Isa. 42:10; 49:6; 52:10; 60:1-3; Luke 2:32; Acts 1:8; Rom. 10:18; 16:36; Eph. 2:17; Col. 1:23; Rev. 14:6}
• “sharp two-edged sword”: Heb. 4:12
• She [Eve] lusted after it: 1 John 2:16; Rom. 13:14; Eph. 2:3; 1 Pet. 2:11; 4:2; see also “the lust of the flesh” and “delight”
• “shed blood”: Forgives sin, required for making atonement for sin; Rom. 5:8; Heb. 9:22; 1 Pet. 1:19; Rev. 7:14 {Isa. 53:5}
• “sheep”:
• “shepherd”:
• “shield of faith”:
• “shrewd” [Jesus’ warning to us]: Matt. 10:16 {Luke 16:8}
• “Shrink back to destruction”:
• “silver,” “gold”: Pro. 2:1-4
• “sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you”: Gen. 4:7
• “sin”: Eph. 2:1-2, 5; 5:14; 1 Tim. 5:6
• Sin, suffering, disease, and death (physical and spiritual) entered the world: 5:12; 6:23
• “sinned” [the angels who rebelled]: 2 Pet. 2:4
• “sinner[s]”:
• “sins forgiven” [“sins are forgiven”]: See “for the forgiveness of your sins” and “your sins are forgiven”
• Sins of commission: 5:19-2??
• Sins of omission: Jas. 4:17
• “sit down with Me [Jesus] on My throne”: Rev. 3:21
• “six days” [6 literal days]: Exo. 20:11; see also “God created”
• “slave”: Luke 12:37; see also “bond-servant”
• “snares” [“snare”]: 1 Tim. 6:9
• Sneakiness:
• Socialize with them [the ungodly] and partake in their worldly activities: Rom. 12:1-2; 2 Cor. 6:14-18; 2 Tim. 2:21-22; Jas. 1:21, 27; 4:4; 1 Thess. 5:19-22; 1 John 1:6
• “soil”:
• Solid “rock”
• “some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty”: Matt. 13:8; 13:23; Mark 4:8, 20
• “some will fall away from [depart] the faith”: 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Thess. 2:3; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Matt. 24:5-11; see also “fall away”
• “Son of God”:
• “Son of Man”:
• “son” [or daughter, of God]: 8:15, 23; 9:4; Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:5; see also “children [child] of God”
• “Son” [The, Jesus, Second Person of the Divine Trinity]:
• “sorcery”: Sorcery includes witchcraft, divination, fortune telling, astrology, horoscopes, mediums, channeling, clairvoyance, necromancy, Ouija boards, seances, shamans, Voodoo, animism, black magic, spells, charmer, conjurers, enchanters mage, wizardry, mystical dreaming, spiritualism, often partakers of drugs in the process, etc.; Rev. 21:8; Gal. 5:20
• Soul which lives on even after the body dies:
• “sower”: See The Parable of the Sower
• “speaking” [“spoke,” “God said”]: See “spoke”
• “speculation”: 1 Tim. 4:1
• “spirit” [God is]: #9
• Spiritual beings; Luke 15:10; Heb. 1:14; 2:7-9; Psa. 91:11; Col. 1:16; Job 38:7; Luke 20:36; Rev. 4:8; Matt. 22:30; Jude 6; 1 Pet. 3:22; Eph. 6:12
• Spiritual death: Matt. 7:23; 25:41; Luke 13:27; Eph. 2:1 {Rev. 1:5}
• Spiritual forces of “wickedness” and “darkness”:
• Spiritual war: Eph. 6:12; Rom. 6:38-39
• “spiritual” [things, spiritual matter if you will]: 11:3
• “spoke” [“God said”]: 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26; Psa. 33:6, 9; Heb. 1:3; 11:3; 2 Pet. 3:5
• Stand against the crowd of popular opinion and the ways of this world:
• “stand before the judgment seat of God”: See “we will all stand before the judgment seat of God”
• “stand firm against the schemes of the devil”: Eph. 6:10-17
• “Stand firm in it!”: 1 Pet. 5:12; see also “stand firm”
• “stand firm in the Lord, my beloved”: See “stand firm”
• “stand firm”: 1 Cor. 16:13; Eph. 6:10-17; 2 Thess. 2:15; Php. 4:1; 1 Thess. 3:8
• “standing firm in the Lord”: See “stand firm”
• “stealing” [“steal”]:
• “steward”: Tit. 1:7; 1 Cor. 4:1-2; 9:17; 1 Pet. 4:10; Col. 1:25
• “stiff-necked” and “obstinate”: Acts 7:51; Exo. 32:9; 33:3-4; 34:9; Deut. 9:6, 12-13; 10:15-16; 2 Kgs 17:13-14; 2 Chr. 30:8, etc.
• “strait”: Difficult, narrow; Matt. 7:13-14 KJV; Luke 13:24; 22:14 KJV; see also
• “strength” [of character, “be strong”]: 1 Cor. 16:13; Eph. 6:10; 2 Tim. 2:1
• “striving” [“strive,” God’s Spirit]:
• “stumble”: Jas. 3:2
• Suffering Servant: Isa. 52:13-53:12
• “suffering”: Acts 1:3; 2 Cor. 1:5; Php. 3:10; 1 Pet. 2:23; 4:13; 5:1
• “take away [our] sins”: Heb. 9:22; 13:12; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; Lev. 4:20, 26; 17:11, 14 {Gen. 3:21; Exo. 12:13; 24:6-8; 30:10; Lev. 8:15; 16:14-19; Matt. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Rom. 3:25; 5:9; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:20; 1 Pet. 1:2; 1 John 1:7; 2:2; Rev. 1:5; 7:14}
• “take up his [our, your] cross”: 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23
• “taken” [“take,” your “crown of life”]: Stolen, “seized” (ESV); 3:11
• “teachers”:
• “temptations” [Jesus “tempted by the devil”]: Matt. 4:1-11
• “temptations” [ “temptation,” of sin]: 6:13; 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 8:13; 11:4; 22:40, 46; 1 Cor. 10:13; 1 Tim. 6:9; 2 Pet. 2:9 {Luke 4:13}
• “tempted in all things as we are”:
• “tempter”:
• “test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves”: 2 Cor. 13:5
• “tested by fire”: 1 Pet. 1:7
• Thank God for that: Matt. 18:21-22
• “thankful”: Col. 3:15-16; 4:2; 2 Cor. 9:11-12; Php. 4:6; Rev. 7:12
• “thankfulness”:
• “thanksgiving”:
• “that He is” [that God exists]: 11:6; John 1:18; 1 John 3:2; 4:12; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16; 1 Chron. 28:9; Luke 10:22; Matt. 11:27; Psa. 14:1; 53:1; Acts 17:23, 27
• “that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work”: 2 Tim. 3:17
• “that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples”: John 15:8
• That you can do any “good works”: John 15:4-5; see also “by the Spirit”
• “the abundance of his [your] riches”:
• “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”: Heb. 11:1
• “the beginning” [the need for obedience]: 2:15-17; 26:4-5; Exo. 20:1-17; Deut. 28:1; 30:10, 15-19; Josh. 24:15; Eze. 18:5, 9
• The Bible is inerrant: 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 1 Pet. 1:20-21 {Acts 1:16; 28:25; Rom. 3:2; Heb. 4:12; Gen. 15:1; 1 Sam. 15:10; 2 Sam. 23:2; 1 Kgs. 6:11; Isa. 38:4; Jer. 1:4; Eze. 7:1; Hos. 1:1; Amo. 7:16; Hag. 1:3; Mal. 1:1}
• “the blood of Christ”:
• “the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin”: 1 John 1:7
• “the boastful pride of life”:
• “the body of Christ”:
• The book of Daniel shows how he (along with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) handled himself in the face of certain death and is very inspirational: Dan. 3:1-30; 6:1-28
• “the book of life”: Rev. 20:4-6
• “the children of the devil [Satan]”: 1 John 3:10
• “the Christ of God”: Matt. 16:16, 20; 22:42; 24:5, 23; 26:63; Mark 8:29; 12:35; 13:21; 14:61; Luke 3:15; 4:41; 9:20; 20:41; 22:67; 23:35, 39; 24:26, 46; John 7:31, 41-42; 10:24; 11:27; 12:34; 20:31; Acts 2:31; 3:20; 5:42; 9:22; 17:3; 18:5, 28; 26:23; Rom. 9:5; 2 Cor. 13:3; Heb. 6:1; 1 John 2:22; 5:1
• “the Christ”: See “the Christ of God”
• “the day of Christ”: Php. 2:16; 1:6; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the day of eternity”: 2 Pet. 3:8; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the day of judgment”: Gen. 18:25; Deut. 4:24; Dan. 7:10; Acts 10:42; 17:30-31; 1 Sam. 2:10; Jude 6, 14-15; Isa. 2:12; 45:23; Rom. 2:5; 12:19; 14:10-12; Php. 2:10-11; 1 Cor. 1:8; 5:5; 2 Cor. 5:10; 1 Chron. 16:33; Psa. 9:7-8; 37:37-38; 50:3-6; 73:17; 82:8; 90:13; 94:2; 96:13; 98:9; Isa. 2:4; 33:22; Rom. 2:5; 1 Pet. 4:5, 17; Heb. 12:29; Jas. 5:9; Rev. 1:16; 19:15, 21; 14:19; 16:15; 19:15; 20:11-15; 22:12, 20; Matt. 24:42-44; 25:31-46; Heb. 9:27; Eccl. 11:9; 12:14; 2 Pet. 2:9; 3:7; 10, 18; Pro. 14:12; 16:25; 2 Tim. 4:8; 1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Thess. 1:6-10; 2:8; Luke 12:39-40; Matt. 16:27; 17:1-6; 24:27; Mark 9:2; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 Pet. 5:1; Col. 3:4; Rom. 8:18; Jude 1:14; Heb. 12:29; Acts 22:6, 11; Rev. 4:8; Gen. 18:25; Deut. 4:24; Dan. 7:10; Acts 10:42; 17:30-31; 1 Sam. 2:10; Jude 6, 14-15; Isa. 2:12; 45:23; Rom. 2:5; 12:19; 14:10-12; Php. 2:10-11; 1 Cor. 1:8; 5:5; 2 Cor. 5:10; 1 Chron. 16:33; Psa. 9:7-8; 37:37-38; 50:3-6; 73:17; 82:8; 90:13; 94:2; 96:13; 98:9; Isa. 2:4; 33:22; Rom. 2:5; 1 Pet. 4:5, 17; Heb. 12:29; Jas. 5:9; Rev. 14:19; 16:15; 19:15; 20:11-15; 22:12, 20; Matt. 24:42-44; 25:31-46; Heb. 9:27; Eccl. 11:9; 12:14; 2 Pet. 2:9; 3:7; 10, 18; Pro. 14:12; 16:25; 2 Tim. 4:8; 1 Thess. 5:2; Luke 12:39-40 {Nah. 1:3}
• “the day of our Lord Jesus Christ”: 1 Cor. 1:8; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the day of redemption”: Eph 4:30; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the day of salvation”: ; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the day of the Lord”: ; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the day of wrath”: 2:5; see also “the day of judgment”
• “the demons also believe, and shudder”: Jas. 2:19; Note that while the demons believed and knew who Jesus was, they were not obedient (to God, Christ, and His Law) and hence are condemned, just like the man who isn’t obedient to the gospel and the commandments of Christ will be.
• “the desires of your [new] heart”:
• “the devil and his angels”: see “for the devil and his angels”
• “the devil” [Satan]: Eze. 28:15
• “the domain of darkness”: Dominion, power; Col. 1:13; Acts 26:15-18; Luke 1:78-79; John 1:4-5; 3:19; 8:12; 12:35; 12:46; Eph. 5:8; 6:12 {Matt. 4:16; Rom. 13:12; 2 Cor. 4:6; 6:14; 1 Pet. 2:9; Luke 22:53; 1 John 2:8; Isa. 9:2; 42:6-7; 60:1-3; 1 Thess. 5:5-8}
• “the end of the [gospel/church] age”:
• “the end” [of time itself, the “last [seventh] trumpet”]: 1 Cor. 15:24; John 6:39-40, 44, 54; Rom. 8:19-23; 2 Pet. 3:10-13; 1 Cor. 7:31; 15:22-26; 50-57; Dan. 12:4, 13, Matt. 10:22; 13:39-40; Rev. 8:1-2, 6; 10:6; 12:10
• see also “the day of judgment”
• “the eternal fire”:
• “the faith which was once for all [time] handed down to the saints”: See “contend earnestly [actually fight] for the faith which was once for all [time] handed down to the saints [the Apostles]”
• “the father of lies”: John 8:44; see also “the devil”
• “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”: Pro. 1:7, 22, 29-30; 9:10; Job 28:28; Psa. 110:10; 112:1; Eccl. 12:13 {Pro. 18:2}
• The forbidden tree: Gen. 3:6
• The forces of evil led by Satan:
• “the forgiveness of sins”: Col. 1:14; see also “forgiveness of sins”
• “the free gift of eternal life” [paraphrase]: See “the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”
• “the free gift of God [which] is eternal life”: See “the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”
• “the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”: 6:23; 5:15; Eph. 2:8; John 4:10; Acts 8:20; Tit. 1:2; 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:3 {Rom. 5:15; Eph. 3:7; 2 Tim. 1:6}
• “the free gift of God”: See “the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”
• “the furnace of fire”:
• “the gift of the Holy Spirit”: Acts 2:38
• “the goats on the [Jesus’] left”: Matt. 25:31-46; John 6:39-40, 44
• “the gospel of peace”:
• “the grace of God”: Grace is undeserved favor, getting something we do not deserve; Tit. 3:7; see also “merciful”
• “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few”: Matt. 9:37
• “the Highway of Holiness”: Isa. 35:8; John 14:6; 1:23; Matt. 7:13-14; Luke 1:79; 20:21; Acts 19:9; 23; 24:14, 22; 2 Pet. 2:21 {Psa. 32:8}; see also The Highway of Holiness book we publish
• “the hope of eternal life”: Tit. 1:2; 2:13; Tit. 3:7; 1 Pet. 1:3
• “the image of the invisible God”:
• “The Kingdom of Christ and God”: Eph. 5:5
• “The Kingdom of Christ Jesus” [paraphrase]: 2 Tim. 4:1
• “The Kingdom of God”:
• “The Kingdom of Heaven”:
• “The Kingdom of His Beloved Son”: Col. 1:13
• “The Kingdom of Jesus” [paraphrase]: 1:9
• “The Kingdom of Our God and the Authority of His Christ”: Rev. 12:10
• “The Kingdom of Our Lord and of His Christ”: Rev. 11:15
• “The Kingdom of the Son of Man” [paraphrase]: 13:41
• “the lake of fire which burns with brimstone”: see “the lake of fire”
• “the lake of fire”: Hell; 2 Pet. 3:4; Rev. 20:10
• “the Lamb of God”: John 1:29; 36 {1 Pet. 1:19}
• “the last days”:
• “the Light of the World”: John 1:4-5; 3:19; 8:12; 9:5; 46{Mal. 4:2; Matt. 4:14-16; Luke 1:76-79; 2:32; John 1:7-9; 12:35-36; 2 Cor. 4:4, 6; Psa. 18:28; 27:1; 36:9; 43:3; 44:3; 50:2; 119:105; Isa. 9:2; 60:1-3; 2 Pet. 1:19; Rom. 13:12; Rev. 2:28; 21:23; 22:5, 16; 1 John 2:8; Eph. 5:8-14; Acts 26:18, 23; Job 29:3; 1 Pet. 2:9}
• “the Lord is my shepherd”:
• “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance”: 2 Pet. 3:9
• “the Lord’s Supper”:
• “the love of money”:
• “the lust of the eyes”: See “the lust of the flesh”
• “the lust of the flesh”: Fleshly desires/gratification; Gen. 3:1-6; 1 John 2:15-17; Rom. 6:1-20; 7:14-25; 8:1-17; 12:1; 13:13-14; Eph. 2:3; 4:1; 1 Pet. 4:1-2; 2:11; Luke 21:34; Acts 15:20, 29; 2 Cor. 1:12; 7:1; Gal. 5:16-21, 24; 6:8; 2 Tim. 2:22; Col. 3:5-10 {1 Tim. 6:9-10; Jas. 4:1; 2 Cor. 5:17}; see also “pride of life”
• “the mark of the beast”: Rev. 16:2; 19:20
• “the message of truth” [“the word of Truth” KJV]: 1:13; Col. 1:5; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Cor. 6:7; 2 Tim. 2:15; Jas. 1:18 {Eph. 3:8; Rom. 1:16; 10:14-17; 16:25; Col. 1:23; Mark 16:15; Acts 5:42; 13:26; 26:25; 1 Cor. 1:17, 23; 2 Cor. 4:5; Psa. 119:43, 160; Pro. 22:21; Eccl. 12:10; John 1:14}; see also “the Word of God”
• “the Messiah”:
• “the mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth”:
• “the name which is above every name.”: Php. 2:8
• “the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”: Matt. 8:12; 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30; Luke 13:28
• The Parable of the Sower: 13:1-9, 18-23; Luke 8:4-8, 11-15
• The Parable of the Unjust Judge: Luke 18:1-8
• “the penalty for sin is death” [paraphrase]: 1:15
• “the prince of the power of the air”:
• “the radiance of His [God’s] glory and the exact representation of His nature”
• “the redeemed of the Lord”: Psa. 106:10; 107:2; Isa. 62:12; see also “redeem”
• “the ruler [prince KJV] of this world”: 2:16-17; 3:1-24; John 12:31; 16:11; Luke 10:18; Heb. 2:14; Rev. 12:7-9 {1 John 3:8; 5:19; Rev. 20:2} {1 Cor. 15:21; Rom. 3:10, 23; 5:12, 19; 1 John 5:19}
• “the ruler of the demons”:
• “the sheep on His [Jesus’] right”: Matt. 25:31-46; John 6:39-40, 44
• “the snare [wiles] of the devil”: 1 Tim. 3:7; 2 Tim. 2:26 {1 Pet. 5:8; Jas. 4:7; Eph. 4:27; 6:11; Rev. 20:10}; see also “snares”
• “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost”: Rev. 22:17
• “the Spirit of Christ”:
• “the spirit of error”:
• “the Spirit of God [Jesus] dwells [dwell, dwelling, abides, abiding] in you”: John 5:38; 6:56; 14:17, 20; 15:4-7; 2 Tim. 1:14; 1 John 2:14, 24, 27-28, 3:24; 4:12-13, 15-16; 2 John 2; John 6:56; 14:20; 15:4-7; Rom. 8:9, 11; 1 Cor. 3:16 {John 15:9-10; 17:21}; see also “the Spirit of God”
• “the Spirit of God”: Rom. 8:9, 14; Matt. 3:16; 12:28; 1 Cor. 2:11, 14; 3:16; 7:40; 12:3; Eph. 4:30; Php. 3:3; 1 John 4:2; John 1:13; see also “the Spirit of Jesus”
• “the Spirit of Jesus”: Acts 16:7; Php. 1:19; see also “the Spirit of God”
• “the sum of Your word is truth”: Psa. 119: 160, 86; Pro. 30:5; 2 Tim. 3:16-17
• “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God”: Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12
• “the things concerning Himself”: Luke 24:27; John 5:39
• The true and correct gospel: John 14:6; 6:53; 1 Tim. 2:5; Acts 4:12 {1 John 2:23}
• “the truth” [of God’s word]: Mark 1:14; Luke 9:6; 20:1; Acts 8:25, 40; Rom. 1:9; 16:25; Gal. 1:9; Php. 4:15; Eph. 6:15
• “the unquenchable fire”:
• “the valley of the shadow of death”: See “through the valley of the shadow of death”
• The warning given to man way back in the Garden of Eden: Gen. 2:16-17
• “the way [which] is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it”:
• “the way is broad”: Matt. 7:13-14; see also “narrow way”
• “the way of peace”: Luke 1:79; 20:21; John 14:6; 1:23; Matt. 7:13-14; Acts 19:9; 23; 24:14, 22; 2 Pet. 2:21
• “the way and the truth and the life”: John 14:6
• “the way”: Acts 9:2; 18:25-26; 19:9, 23; 24:14; 22; John 14:6; 2 Pet. 2:2, 21; Rom. 1:16; Acts 13:26; 16:17; Eph. 1:13; 2 Tim. 3:15; Tit. 2:11; Matt. 7:13-14 {Matt 4:23; 9:35; 12:18; Luke 1:77; 4:18-19; 8:1}
• The ways of “righteousness” and “peace”:
• “the will of man”:
• “the wisdom from above”:
• The wisdom of man: Jas. 3:14-15; Pro. 14:12; 16:25
• “the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus”: 1 Tim. 3:15
• “the Word of God”: Scripture, The Holy Bible, “The Word of Life,” “The Word of Truth,” “The Word of the Kingdom,” “The Word of Jesus,” “The Word of Christ,” “The Word of the Lord,” “The Word of Reconciliation [with God],” “The Word of His Power,” “The Sword of the Spirit,” “The Sword of My Mouth,” “The Word of My Perseverance”; add verse refs here
• “the Word of the Lord”:; see also “the Word of God”
• “the Word of Truth”: Col. 1:5; 2 Tim. 2:15; Jas. 1:18; 2 Cor. 6:7; see also “the Word of God”
• “then comes the end, when He [Jesus] hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He [Jesus] has abolished all rule and all authority and power”: 1 Cor. 15:24
• “Then He [Jesus] said to His disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest’”: Matt. 9:37-38
• There is a God: #5
• “there is none righteous, not even one”: Rom. 1:20-21; 3:10-18, 23; 5:8, 12; Gal. 3:22; Isa. 64:6; Jer. 17:9; Eph. 2:1-2; Mark 2:17; 7:21-22; 1 John 1:8 {Rom. 5:12; 11:32; Psa. 143:2}
• “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus [there is no distinction, we are all equal]”:
• “there will no longer be any death”: Rev. 21:4
• “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith”: Heb. 12:1-2
• “Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it”: 4:1, 11; 2:1-3; 12:1, 15; Php. 3:12-14; 1 Cor. 9:26-27 {Matt. 7:13-14, 21-23; Luke 13:23-24}
• “therefore, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure”: 2 Thess. 1:4
• They [angels] were around to see the “beginning” of creation: Job 38:7; Luke 2:13-14; Rev. 5:11; Psa. 148:2; Rev. 7:11; Matt. 26:53
• They will influence you to sin than you will influence them to Christ: 1 Cor. 15:33; Gal. 5:9
• “things in [of] this world”: 1 John 2:15
• “thirsty”:
• “thirty,” “sixty,” or a “hundredfold”: See “some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty”
• “This is the second death, the lake of fire”: Rev. 20:14; 21:8
• This spiritual war is a battle for your eternal soul:
• “thorny soil” [paraphrase, “among the thorns”]: 13:1-9; Mark 4:1-9; Luke 8:4-8
• Those weapons are of no use in the spiritual war we are in: 2 Cor. 10:3-4 {Rom. 12:17-19}
• “those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved”:
• “those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation [or affliction or persecution] fall away”:
• “those whom the lord loves he disciplines”: Heb. 12:5-6; 1 Cor. 11:32 {Pro. 12:1}
• “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God”: Acts 14:22
• “through the valley of the shadow of death”:
• To hear the Word preached:
• “to save sinners” [Jesus came into the world]: 1 Tim 1:15
• “to the end”: Matt. 24:13; Mark 13:13; see also “perseverance” and “be faithful until death”
• “to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life”: Rom 2:7
• “torment”:
• “torment”: See The Day of Judgment chapter.
• “traditions”: Precepts, doctrines, rules, commandments, traditions, philosophies of man; Matt. 15:3, 6, 9, 24:5; Mark 7:6-13, Col. 2:8, 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 6:20; Tit. 1:13-14 {1 Tim. 1:4; Isa. 29:13; Heb. 13:9, 2 Thess. 2:2-3; Col. 2:23}
• Train and discipline our body, mind, and soul as a warrior and in just the same way an Olympic athlete trains for competition:
• Treat all equally:
• “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”: Gen. 2:16-17; 3:1-24
• “trials”:
• “tribulation”: Acts 14:22; 2 Tim. 3:12; Matt. 5:10-12
• “tribulations”:
• “trick”: See “tricked”
• “tricked”: Gen. 3; 4:14; Rev. 3:11
• “true” [God is]: 1:13; Num. 23:19, Tit. 1:2, John 1:14, 17; Heb. 6:18; 13:8; Rev. 3:14; 19:2, 11; 21:5; 22:6 {1 Sam. 15:29, Psa. 89:35; 119:43; Hab. 2:3, Luke 21:33, Jas. 1:17-18; 2 Cor 6:7; 2 Tim. 2:15; Col. 1:6; 2 John 1:3}
• “trumpet of God”:
• “trust in Him”: See “trust in the Lord”
• “trust in the Lord”: Pro. 3:5; Psa. 4:5; 31:6; 37:3; 40:3; 62:8; 115:9-11; 125:1; Isa. 26:4; Matt. 11:25-27; 18:2-4; Mark 10:15; 1 Cor. 1:27 {Zep. 3:2; Php. 2:24; 2 Chron. 20:20}; see also “trust”
• “trust”: John 3:14-18; 5:24; 6:35, 40, 47; 7:38; 11:25; 14:6; Acts 2:21; 4:10-12; 1 Tim. 2:5-7; Matt. 7:13-14; Eph. 2:8-9; Acts 10:43; Rom. 1:16; 9:23; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Gal. 2:20; see also “trust in the Lord”
• “trust in their [your] wealth”:
• “truth of the gospel”: Gal. 2:5, 14; Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:5
• “truth”:
• “turn[ed] aside to follow Satan”: 1 Tim. 5:15
• “turn[ed] aside to fruitless discussion”: 1 Tim. 1:6
• “turn aside to myths”:
• “turn aside”: Heb. 10:39; 2 Tim. 4:3-4
• “turn away”:
• “turn back”:
• Understand what is in the OT: John 5:39, 46; 7:52; 22:29; Acts 8:32-35; Mark 12:10; Rom. 15:4 {Luke 16:29-31; Acts 17:11}
• “unpardonable sin” [paraphrase]: See “blasphemes against the Holy Spirit”
• “undefiled” [unspoiled]:
• “until death”: See “be faithful until death”
• “unwavering”:
• “uploads all things by the word of His power”: 1:3; Col. 1:17; Rev. 4:11; John 1:3; Isa. 40:26
• Vain attempts to make one appear more pious before others during prayer are not valued before the Lord:
• “vipers”: Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33; Luke 3:7 {John 8:44}
• “virgin” [with respect to sin]: 2 Cor. 11:2. Rev. 14; 3:18; 7; 19
• “virgin”:
• “voice of one crying in the wilderness”:
• Wage spiritual warfare:
• “wages war” [the flesh]: See “which wage war against the soul”
• “waging war” [the flesh]: See “which wage war against the soul”
• “walk [live] by faith, not by sight”: See “we walk by faith, not by sight”
• “walk in newness of life”:
• “walk [live, living] by the Spirit”: Gal. 5:16, 25; Col. 2:6
• “walk in the Light”: 1 John 1:5-7; see also “walking in truth”
• “walk in the truth”: See “walking in truth”
• “walking [living] by the Spirit”: See “walk [live, living] by the Spirit”
• “walking in the truth”: See “walking in truth”
• “walking in truth”: 2 John 1:4; 3 John 3-4 {1 John 1:6}; see also “walk in the light”
• “wanting to have their ears tickled [itching ears]”: 2 Tim. 4:3-4
• “Was not Abraham our father justified by works?”: Jas. 2:21
• “was very good”: Gen. 1:31
• “washed yourself clean” [paraphrase]: 1:16, 18 {Eph. 1:4; 5:27; Col. 1:21-23}
• “water of life”:
• “we will all stand before the judgment seat of God”: 14:10; 2 Cor. 5:10 {Luke 21:36}
• We are all sinners: Rom. 3:23
• We are no longer our own:
• We are the Church:
• “We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job”: Jas. 5:11
• We go to worship:
• “we walk by faith, not by sight”: 2 Cor. 5:6-8; John 20:29
• “weeping and gnashing of teeth”:
• “well done good and faithful slave [servant]”: Matt. 25:21, 23, 34 ESV; Luke 19:17; Isa. 45:23; Rom. 14:11; Php. 2:10-11; Dan. 12:13; Rev. 22:20-21; John 19:30
• “well-pleasing”:
• “what must I do to be saved?”: Acts 16:30
• “whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for people”:
• “When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented”: Jon. 3:10
• “when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father”:
• When Jesus returns:
• “when the fullness of time came”: At just the right time to save humanity; Gal. 4:4; Mark 1:15; Eph. 1:9-12; 3:1-11; 5:32; 6:19; Col. 1:26-27; 2:2; 4:3; Heb. 9:10; Rom. 16:25; 1 Cor. 2:7 {Acts 1:7; 1 Tim. 3:16}
• “when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire”: 1 Thess. 5:1-6, 2 Thess. 1:6-10; Acts 1:9-11; Rom. 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 15:20-24; 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Pet. 3:3-10; Matt. 24:36-51; 25:31-46; Gal. 6:7-9; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Rev. 15:8; 19:1
• “when we are persecuted, we endure”: 1 Cor. 4:12
• Where Christ is reigning:
• “where I am, there you may be also”:
• “where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched”: Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:28; Rev. 19:20; 20:10, 14-15; 21:8; Matt. 25:46; see also “the lake of fire”
• Wherever the King is, there also is the Kingdom:
• “which is the Word of God”:
• Which sounds immediately before (the Day of Judgment):
• “which wage war against the soul”: 1 Pet. 2:11 {Rom. 7:23, 7-25; 8:1-13; 12:1; 4:1-3; Gal. 5:16-17; Eph. 4:1; Matt. 26:41; Mark 14:36; 2 Cor. 4:16}; see also
• “white garments”: Rev. 3:5, 18; 4:4 {2 Cor. 11:2}
• “white”:
• “who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see”: Isa. 46:9-10; 55:8-9; Psa. 41:13; 44:21; 90:2; 103:17; 139:1-4; 147:5; 1 John 3:20; Matt. 10:30; Heb. 4:13; 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16 {Matt. 6:27; 1 Kings 8:39; Acts 1:24}
• “who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty”: See “some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty”:
• “who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth [riches and pleasures of this life] choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful”:
• Who implement the will of God [angels who do]: Psa. 34:7; 91:11; 103:20; Acts 10:22; Matt. 13:39, 18:10; Heb. 1:14
• “wilderness”:
• “will be destroyed [lost]”: Matt. 7:13-14; 21-22; Luke 13:24; Hos. 4:6
• “will be done”: See “Your will be done”
• “will sing a new song”: Rev. 5:9; 14:3; Psa. 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; 98:1; 144:9; 149:1; Isa. 42:10
• Willingly: John 10:11, 15, 17-18; Matt. 20:28; 26:53; Mark 10:45; Luke 22:19; Gal. 1:4; 2:20; Eph. 5:2, 25; 1 Tim. 2:6, 14; Heb. 9:14; 10:9-10; 1 John 3:16 {John 2:19-21; Isa. 53:10-12; Php. 2:6-8; Tit. 2:14}
• “wisdom from above”: Jas. 3:17
• “wisdom” [of God]: Pro. 3:19; 8:22-36; Jer. 10:12; 51:15; Job 9:5-10; 12:7-10; 26:7-14; 36:26-30; 37; 38:1-7; Psa. 8:3; 19:1-4; 104: 24; 136:5; Rom. 11:33; Eph. 1:8; 3:10 {Rom. 1:18-20; Acts 14:15-17; Isa. 28:10-13}
• Wisdom of man: Rom. 3:4; see also “wise in your own eyes”
• “wisdom” [lacking it, asking God for it]: 1:5; see also “ask of God” [for wisdom]
• “wisdom” [Godly]: 18:25; Deut. 32:4; Psa. 1:2; 11:6-7; 19:7; 33:5; 37:27-29; 51:4-5; 67:4; 140:12; Isa. 9:7; 30:18; Matt. 12:18; 1 Pet. 1:17; Gal. 6:7-8; 1 Cor. 14:33; Acts 17:31; 2 Tim. 4:8; Pro. 3:19; 24:3; Job 38:37; Jer. 10:12; Pro. 3:19; 8:22-36; Jer. 10:12; 51:15; Job 9:5-10; 12:7-10; 26:7-14; 36:26-30; 37; 38:1-7; Psa. 8:3; 19:1-4; 104: 24; 136:5; Rom. 11:33; Eph. 1:8; 3:10 {Rom. 1:18-20; Acts 14:15-17; Isa. 28:10-13}
• “wise in your own eyes”: Pro. 3:7; 12:15; 16:18; 26:12; 28:11; Rom. 12:16; 1 Cor. 3:18; 1:20-21; 3:19 {Psa. 14:1; 53:1; Pro. 28:26; Isa. 5:21; 32:6}; see also wisdom of man
• “wise”:
• “with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength”:
• “with power and great glory”: 2 Thess. 1:6-10; 2:8; Matt. 16:27; 17:1-6; 24:27; Mark 9:2; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 Pet. 5:1; Col. 3:4; Rom. 8:18; Jude 1:14; Heb. 12:29; Acts 22:6, 11; Rev. 4:8
• “with power”: Mark 9:1
• “with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows [fiery darts] of the evil one [Satan]”:
• “without excuse”: Rom. 1:19-20
• “without faith it is impossible to please Him [God]”:
• “without hypocrisy”: Jas. 3:13-18
• “without sin” [Jesus was]: 4:15; 9:28; Isa. 53:9; 1 John 3:5; 1 Pet. 2:22 {2 Cor. 5:21}
• “without sin” [we become in Christ]:
• Without sin, suffering, and death [Creation Restored]: Rev. 7:17; 21:4
• “witness”:
• “witnesses”: Rom. 1:1-32; 2:14-16; 3:4; John 3:19
• “wolves in sheep’s clothing” [paraphrase]: See “wolves”; also “ravenous wolves,” “false prophets”
• “wolves”: Matt. 7:15-20; 10:16; Mark 7:6-8; Luke 10:3; Acts 17:11; 20:28-30; Col. 2:8; Hos. 4:6; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; 2 Cor. 11:3-4; 13-15; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 3-4; 2 Pet. 2:1-3; 3:16-18; Eph. 4:14; 5:6; Rev. 3:11; 18:4-5; 19:20; 20:10; Gal. 1:6-9; John 4:23-24 {Matt. 16:6, 11-12; 24:24; Mark 8:15; 12:38-40; Acts 8:9-11; Php. 3:2; Rom. 15:4; Gal. 2:14; 3:1; 4:9, 16; 5:1, 7-8; Pro. 27:6; Rev. 2:9, 20; 3:9; 12:9; 13:13-14; 18:3; 20:10; Eph. 6:10-18; 2 Tim. 2:18, 26; 2 Thess. 2:3. 9-12; 2 Pet. 1:16; 2:18; Tit. 1:13-14}; see also “false prophets” and modern-day “Pharisees”
• Wonderful examples of prayer in Scripture:
• “Word of Truth”: See “the Word of Truth”
• “work out your salvation with fear and trembling”: Php. 2:12; 3:13-14; 1 Cor. 4:14; 9:24-27; 15:58; 1 Pet. 2:11; 2 Pet. 3:18; Rom. 2:7; Gal. 6:7-9 {Eccl. 12:13}
• “working together” [faith and works]: See “work together with your faith”
• “works of the [OT Mosaic] law”
• “works”:
• “worries”:
• “worship [Him, God] in spirit and truth”: John 4:23-24; Luke 18:8; Heb. 13:9; Matt. 24:4, 24; Acts 20:30; 2 Cor. 11:13; Gal. 1:6-9; Eph. 4:14; 5:6; Col. 2:4, 8; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 6:3-5, 20; 1 John 4:1; Jude 3
• “worship” [offer to God and His Christ]:
• “worshiping in spirit and truth”: See “worship [Him, God] in spirit and truth”
• “worthy to suffer”: Acts 5:41; John 15:20
• “wrangle [wrangling] about words”: 2 Tim. 2:14, 23-24; haggling, arguing, quibbling, endlessly debating, being quarrelsome or verbally contentious, splitting hairs
• “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them”: Rev. 14:13
• “Yahweh”: See “YHWH” and “Jehovah”
• “‘yes [be] yes’ or ‘no [be] no’”: Matt. 5:37
• “YHWH”: #6
• “you are of your father the devil”: John 8:44
• You can still decide to quit Him: Matt. 7:22
• You do not go into nothingness after death: 9:27
• “you have been saved through faith…not as a result of works”: Eph. 2:8-10
• “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin”: Heb. 12:4
• “you in Him”: 2 Thess. 1:12; see also “abide [dwell] in Him [Jesus]” and “abides [dwells] in you”
• You might be ridiculed: see Face Ridicule
• You must actively suppress that evidence to deny God: 1:1-32; 2:14-16; 3:4; John 3:19
• “‘you shall love the lord your god with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind’”: Matt. 22:37-38; Mark 12:28-30; Luke 10:27
• “‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself’”: Matt. 5:43; 7:12; 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27 {Gal. 5:14; Rom. 13:8-10, Jas. 2:8}
• You will be back under all of it [the entire OT Mosaic Law]: Jas. 2:10
• “you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”: John 8:32
• Your eternal destiny which is at stake: Hos. 4:6
• “your father”:
• “your sins forgiven”: See “your sins are forgiven” and “for the forgiveness of your sins”
• “your sins are forgiven”: Matt. 9:2, 5; Mark 2:5, 9; Luke 5:20, 23; 7:48; Acts 2:38-41; 1 John 2:12; see also “sins are forgiven” and “for the forgiveness of your sins”
• “your sins have been forgiven”: 1 John 2:12; see also “your sins are forgiven,” “sins are forgiven” and “forgiveness of sins”
• “Your will be done”: Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23 {Matt. 6:10}
• “zeal” to “preach the gospel” to the “lost”: