Word of Life Verses

You are my strong shield, and I trust you completely. You have helped me, I will celebrate and thank you in song.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

Remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing.

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God,^[a] which he bought with his own blood.^[b]

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.

O Sovereign Lord, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

"In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.

We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty — he is the King of glory.

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service.

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

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

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

The Lord will vindicate me; your love Lord endures forever-do not abandon the works of your hands.