THE SECRET OF BEING CONTENT
I can do everything through Him Who gives me strength.
I can do everything through Him Who gives me strength.
Not that I have now attained this ideal, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of me and made me His own
Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only of what we know; we have actually seen what we are testifying to.
Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
what is born of flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ, developing,perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.
He was speaking here of the Spirit, Whom those who believed in Him were afterward to receive. For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
In this new creation all distinctions vanish. There is no distinction of Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised,nor national,ethnic,
social,nor gender differences, but Christ is all and in all everything and everywhere to all men without distinction of person
And have clothed yourselves with the new spiritual self, which is evr in the process of being renewed into fuller and more perfect knowledge after the image of Him Who created it
Clothe yourselves therefore, as God’s chosen ones (His own picked representatives) who are purified and holy and well beloved by God Himself by putting on behavior marked by tender-hearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a humble esteem of ourselves, gentle patience which is tireless and long-suffering and has the power to endure whatever comes with good temper