Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it… For only we who believe can enter his rest.

Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.

Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life.

Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

“The master was full of praise. ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate together!’

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert! Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.