ephesians 6:10-18 esv

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the Gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints...

philippians 4:4-9 esv

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

ii corinthians 10:3-4 niv84

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

matthew 6:13 esv

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

i peter 2:11 csb

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.

galatians 5:25 nas

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

romans 13:13 esv

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

romans 13:12, 14 esv

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

i john 2:6 niv84

Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.

ephesians 4:22 esv

...to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires

jeremiah 4:3-4 esv

For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts...

ephesians 4:23-24 esv

and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

romans 8:29 esv

For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

colossians 3:12-14 esv

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

i john 5:18 esv

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but He Who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

ii chronicles 27:6 esv

So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

ii corinthians 12:9-10 niv

But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

i timothy 1:18-19 esv

This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith...

romans 12:3 esv

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

ii corinthians 13:5 esv

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

galatians 6:4 niv

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else,

romans 2:15 nlt

They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.

i corinthians 15:9-10 esv

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

i john 3:18-22 esv

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before Him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and He knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him.

john 8:55 esv

But you have not known Him. I know Him. If I were to say that I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and I keep His word.

jeremiah 3:12-13 esv

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.

i john 3:18-22 niv

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from Him anything we ask, because we keep His commands and do what pleases Him.

psalm 51:6 nas

Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

proverbs 28:13 esv

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

galatians 6:3 esv

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

ii corinthians 6:11-13 niv84

We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. As a fair exchange--I speak as to my children--open wide your hearts also.

acts 24:16 esv

So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.

i john 1:9 esv

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

ii corinthians 1:12 csb

Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.

psalm 62:8 nlt

O my people, trust in Him at all times. Pour out your heart to Him, for God is our refuge.

job 1:1, 2:3 csb

There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.

Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him for no good reason."

i chronicles 29:17 niv84

I know, my God, that You test the heart and are pleased with integrity.

romans 6:16 esv

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

galatians 5:6 esv

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

i thessalonians 5:8 esv

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

romans 1:5 niv84

Through Him and for His name’s sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

i john 5:3-4 esv

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

ii thessalonians 2:16-17 esv

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father, Who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

philippians 2:20-21 esv

For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

ii thessalonians 1:11 esv

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power...

john 12:24-26 esv

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me....

matthew 16:23-26 esv

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a hindrance to Me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." Then Jesus told His disciples, "If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

isaiah 58:13-14 nlt

"Keep the Sabbath day holy. Don’t pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath and speak of it with delight as the LORD’s holy day. Honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day, and don’t follow your own desires or talk idly. Then the LORD will be your delight. I will give you great honor and satisfy you with the inheritance I promised to your ancestor Jacob. I, the LORD, have spoken!"

proverbs 11:19 esv

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

isaiah 50:4-7 nkjv

The Lord GOD has given Me The tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away. I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

matthew 26:39, 41 esv

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

ii samuel 22:34 esv

He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

ii timothy 4:2 nlt

Preach the Word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching.

i peter 1:13 nas

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

luke 1:17 esv

and he will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.

ii timothy 3:14-17 niv84

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

ii chronicles 20:17 csb

You do not have to fight this battle. Position yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. He is with you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Tomorrow, go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.

i corinthians 10:13 niv84

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

leviticus 26:13 nkjv

I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.

i corinthians 15:58 esv

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

ephesians 4:14-15 esv

...so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ...

romans 10:15 esv

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"

i peter 3:15 niv84

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

philemon 6 niv84

I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

romans 6:4 esv

We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

jude 24 esv

Now to Him Who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy...

ii corinthians 5:7 esv

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

titus 2:11-12 niv84

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age...

ezra 7:10 csb

Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

ephesians 6:16 esv

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one...

i thessalonians 3:10 esv

...as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?

mark 9:24 esv

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"

james 2:22 esv

You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works...

ii peter 1:5-7 esv

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

john 20:29 esv

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

ii corinthians 4:16-18 niv84

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

job 37:19 csb

Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

matthew 11:28-30 esv

Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light."

psalm 131:1-2 esv

O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

matthew 19:14 esv

but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."

mark 10:15 esv

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.

hebrews 10:32 esv

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings...

psalm 33:20, 84:11 esv

Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

hebrews 6:18 esv

...so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

i kings 8:37-40, 58-60 niv84

When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come, and when a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel--each one aware of the afflictions of his own heart, and spreading out his hands toward this temple-- then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart (for you alone know the hearts of all men), so that they will fear you all the time they live in the land you gave our fathers.

May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commands, decrees and regulations He gave our fathers. And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may uphold the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel according to each day’s need, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God and that there is no other.

romans 8:28-29 nas

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren...

psalm 23 esv

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

isaiah 38:15-17 niv84

But what can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul. Lord, by such things men live; and my spirit finds life in them too. You restored me to health and let me live. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In Your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind Your back.

ii corinthians 1:20 esv

For all the promises of God find their Yes in {Jesus}. That is why it is through Him that we utter our Amen {so be it} to God for His glory.