so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky
Phil 2:15
to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Eph 5:27
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:8
If love fulfills the law it makes the believer righteous, walking as a child of the
Kingdom in perfection.
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Gal 5:14
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Rom 13:10
Now those who do not know love in their hearts cannot fulfil the law and have no
part in Christ.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 3:16
If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
John 8:42
Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
John 14:23
Now you cannot separate the love for Jesus from obedience of His teaching.
But to truly start this walk you need to know the love that drove Christ to the
cross and be overwhelmed by it. There is no substitute for from this vine
everything else spring. If the cross is some distant court room event, you
have not really seen Jesus and His heart.
Nothing else in our relationship with God is more stunning than this, that
the Lord of all creation would come and walk with us, show us one to one
how to be, to teach us face to face and then to die an innocent man at the
hands of hypocrites like us and forgive us, in so doing to set us free and
embrace us with salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven if we are prepared
to listen and obey and walk in His ways as a response to His call.
Phil 2:15
to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Eph 5:27
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:8
If love fulfills the law it makes the believer righteous, walking as a child of the
Kingdom in perfection.
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Gal 5:14
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Rom 13:10
Now those who do not know love in their hearts cannot fulfil the law and have no
part in Christ.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 3:16
If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
John 8:42
Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
John 14:23
Now you cannot separate the love for Jesus from obedience of His teaching.
But to truly start this walk you need to know the love that drove Christ to the
cross and be overwhelmed by it. There is no substitute for from this vine
everything else spring. If the cross is some distant court room event, you
have not really seen Jesus and His heart.
Nothing else in our relationship with God is more stunning than this, that
the Lord of all creation would come and walk with us, show us one to one
how to be, to teach us face to face and then to die an innocent man at the
hands of hypocrites like us and forgive us, in so doing to set us free and
embrace us with salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven if we are prepared
to listen and obey and walk in His ways as a response to His call.