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!
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies;
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
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;
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.
Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.
Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.