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The Trinity Doctrine Is NOT In The Bible
C H U R C H R E F O R M S E R I E S
By Biblicism Institute
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27
What does that verse really mean?
It means that there is a duality inherent in God, Father and Son. Therefore God created that same duality in mankind, male and female. That duality is itself God’s image in mankind.
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’ ” Genesis 1:26
When Philip asked Jesus to show him the Father, here’s how Jesus answered:
“Philip said to Him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ ‘ ” John 8:9
There was no mention of the Holy Spirit. That’s because God is a duality of one, Father and Son.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
Nowhere in the bible does Jesus or anyone say that The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one. However, the Holy Spirit carries the power of the duality.
“…stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:49
“…the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Genesis 1: 2-4
God speaks and the Spirit executes.
A NEW HELPER
Before Jesus left earth, He told the disciples that after His departure He would ask the Father to send the Helper.
“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you always.” John 14:16
While Jesus was here, He was the one helping the disciples. But upon the Holy Spirit’s arrival, the Spirit would become that other helper. However, as Philip clearly demonstrated, everyone wanted to see and deal with the Father. They got to do just that. Jesus was the Father’s physical manifestation, both one and the same.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.” John 1: 1,14
“For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9
As Jesus was readying the disciples for the Helper, they became melancholic. They had become accustomed to dealing directly with the Big Boss Himself, the Father. So why a Helper now? Why change a good thing?
“Because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” John 16: 6,7
For example, imagine that everyday you are dealing personally with the President of the Company where you work, but one fine day you are told that you’ll no longer be doing so, and that from now on you’ll have to deal with his helper or personal assistant. You’d feel somewhat cheated, wouldn’t you? Well, Jesus knew the disciples would be in such a frame of mind, so He sternly warned them not to blaspheme or speak irreverently of the Helper just because he wasn’t the Father.
“And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.” Luke 12:10
Before the advent of the Holy Spirit heavenly help was given through angels like Gabriel or Michael.
“The angel said to him, ‘I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.’ ” Luke 1:19
“But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.” Daniel 10:13
However, this time around, thanks to the New Covenant in Christ’s blood, God was about to unleash His most powerful weapon, the Spirit, for the benefit of all believers.
THE SPIRIT
Ezekiel got a glimpse of the Spirit.
Ezekiel Chapter 1:
Ezekiel's Vision
4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. 10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 11 Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. 12 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the Spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 13 The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 14 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning. 15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. 19 When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. 20 Wherever the Spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 21 When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
The Spirit is a mind-blowing sight, almost frightfully so. He projects an awesome display of power via four living creatures and their dazzling embodiments.
First, Ezekiel noticed that wherever the Spirit would go, the four living creatures would go. But then he zoomed in on the wheels which moved the creatures about. And if the creatures went wherever the Spirit went and the wheels moved the creatures about, ergo the wheels were moved by the Spirit. As a result, the Spirit was in the wheels and was working the wheels, just like a driver behind the wheels of his car.
Ezekiel used the subsequent wording in his first observation of the movement of the Spirit and the four living creatures: Wherever the Spirit would go, they [creatures] would go. However when he noticed that the wheels moved the creatures about, he used the same structure: When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved. And finally he understood that the Spirit was in the wheels, so he wrapped both of these observations together in one sentence: Wherever the Spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. Said conclusion was repeated twice in order to make sure we understand it.
FIRE AND THE QUADRUPLY
As can be clearly observed, the Spirit is a quadruply, whereas God is a duality. He’s a quadruply because he is personified as four living creatures, so designed in order to watch over the believers (as in all four rims were full of eyes all around) in the four corners of the earth.
“…the nations in the four corners of the earth…” Revelation 20:8
“I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth…” Revelation 7:1
Another obvious manifestation of the Spirit is Fire.
“The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures… The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.” Ezekiel 1:4-5,13
Pentecost
As the disciples waited in Jerusalem, the promised Holy Spirit finally arrived on Pentecost.
“For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” Acts 1:5
God made sure the unveiling of the Holy Spirit was festively celebratory. He exhibited in our physical world one of the Spirit’s heavenly characteristics, Fire. Said Fire has the ability and power to regulate and alter things on earth. The proof of it was quite conspicuous and in full display that day.
“Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.” Acts 2:3,4
Since then all believers have been able to be so baptized in order to receive the gift of Fire from the Holy Spirit, albeit the spark would subsequently be made to only kindle inside the spirit man without the original Pentecostal outer display of artifice.
“On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve men in all.” Acts 19: 4-7
The original physical manifestation of the flames of Fire on Pentecost was also intended to purposefully set apart the Holy Spirit from Angels in the minds of the disciples. After all, Angels are also Spirits from God or Spirit Angels of God or Holy Angels of God.
“But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.” John 16: 13-15
Thus these things John spoke of are the Father’s and the Son’s. They belong to the two of them, not to the three of them. And the Spirit, not “on His own initiative,” is allowed to take of Christ’s to give to us.
And what does the Spirit take of Christ to give to us? The Fire of God.
“Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire…” Exodus 19:18
“And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.” Numbers 9:15
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.” Matthew 3:11
The Fire of God is the very presence of God, and it contains His essence which is His Word. And every Word of God is Truth.
“For the word of the LORD is right and true.” Psalm 33:4
Therefore the Fire of the Word of God became flesh in Jesus the Christ, Himself the Truth.
“I am the Truth!” John 14:6
The Spirit of Truth, as Jesus called Him, is a Spirit who belongs to the Truth, and as such has been tasked to carry the Fire of God’s Word of Truth, which He embodies, and to deliver it to the believers.
” ‘Is not my word like fire,’ declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 23:29
“The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches.” Ezekiel 1:5
Thus the Spirit dispenses the Holy Fire of God’s Truth (Jesus) by placing it (Him) inside the believers.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19
“If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.” Romans 8:10
However, the Spirit doesn’t just convoy and supply the Fire and then leaves. He is with the believers always, and as such maintains and cultivates the Fire within them to the point of total consumption.
“For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12: 29
“The fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.” 1 Corinthians 3:13
“…another Helper, that he may abide with you always…” John 14:16
That’s why the Apostle Paul warned thus:
“Do not quench the Spirit.” 1 Thessalonians 5:19
THE TESTIMONY
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three agree as one. For there are three that bear witness in earth: the Spirit and the water and the blood; these three agree throughout as one.” 1 John 5:7,8 (Biblicism Institute Translation)
In every bible version, the above verses (especially verse 7) are wrongly translated from the Greek.
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. For there are three that bear record in earth: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree in one.” 1 John 5:7,8 (KJV)
Notice that in verse 7 (KJV), the Greek word eisi is translated as are, but in verse 8, that same word eisi is translated as agree.
Why did the translators feel the need to create such a glaring discrepancy? Because they assumed (wrongly) that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one, and that their “oneness” would somehow explain their agreement.
Additionally, let’s follow John’s train of thought.
For there are three that bear record in heaven….
For there are three that bear record in earth…
John was establishing a record of testimony. To bear record or to bear witness is to testify. And what is God’s law concerning testimony?
“At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses…” Deuteronomy 17:6
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” 2 Corinthians 13:1
Therefore the essence of those verses was to establish a testimony or a record by 3 witnesses: 3 in heaven and 3 in earth. The goal of a testimony with many witnesses is to demonstrate that all of them are in agreement.
In verse 7, the translators (of KJV and others) tried hard to construct a non-existent trinity because they realized there were no other verses in the bible that pointed to it. Not one verse in the whole bible directs us to believe that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one and the same. So they felt it was their opportunity to somehow rectify a “wrong” in order to validate their presupposition.
If we leave their translation as is, it would only point to a false unity of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit as a trinity (three persons as they believe) and not to their agreement as befitting witnesses, which John was trying to convey.
Unfortunately for the trinity theory, if the testimony of the 3 witnesses in Heaven put forth by John is to be valid, the record must indicate that they are in agreement just like the 3 witnesses on earth are properly recorded to be in agreement in verse 8.
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” 2 Corinthians 13:1
Here are 3 testimonies by 3 witnesses concerning God the Father and God the Son as a duality of one.
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’).” Matthew 1:23 (Apostle Matthew)
“For in Him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9 (Apostle Paul)
“In the beginning was the Word… And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.” John 1: 1,14 (Apostle John)
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30 (Apostle John quoting Jesus Himself)
However, no such testimony of 3 witnesses exists to validate the trinity theory.
THE HIERARCHY
The bible is quite clear on how God and Christ are “physically” and authoritatively positioned in Heaven vis-a-vis the Spirit.
“And between the throne and the four living creatures… I saw a Lamb standing.” Revelation 5:6
First, the Apostle John witnessed that God the Father was seated on His throne (Revelation 5), while Jesus the Lamb was temporarily standing between the throne and the Spirit (the quadruply).
Then, as John was allowed to glimpse further ahead at the renewal of all things, He saw Jesus on the throne with the Father, something Jesus Himself prophesied.
“Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne…’ ” Matthew 19:28
Here’s what John saw.
“For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” Revelation 7:17
“The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.” Revelation 22:3
Jesus is seated on the throne with the Father, but the Spirit is not on the throne.
Ezekiel saw that last part (i.e., the figure of a man on the throne) while John saw the whole drama unfolding starting from before Christ sat down. This is what Ezekiel witnessed:
“Above the vault over their heads [of the quadruply of the Spirit] was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.” Ezekiel 1:26
Again, Jesus is seen on the throne, but the Spirit is not on the throne.
“I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Revelation 3:21
There exists only one throne for the the Father and the Son, not two thrones. And that throne is always above the quadruply of the Spirit, both in the Old and the New Testaments. Therefore God the duality, Father and Son, is distinct from the Spirit. Further, God the duality – as witnessed by Ezekiel and John – became fully integrated as one when Jesus sat on the Throne with His Father.
“The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4
THE BAPTISM
How can we reconcile all of the above with the following verse?
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” Matthew 28:19
The Apostle Paul gives us the answer.
“…the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:14
The Holy Spirit is thus the gift that seals our salvation on the day of redemption. He is the one who keeps the Fire burning until the day when we cash in our inheritance.
“And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30
When we are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we are baptized into a contract that stipulates the following: we become part of the Father’s family because of salvation in the Son purchased with His blood, and in turn we are given a pledge of our eternal inheritance, with said pledge being the Spirit Himself (with His gift of the Holy Fire of God), the guarantor of our redemption.
Consequently, if we curse and blaspheme that pledge, we blaspheme and spit on the very One who’s helping us apply all of God’s enduring laws as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12) and with a view to claiming our inheritance, which Christ paid for with His Life. Hence for such irreverence there is no forgiveness. The Apostle John called it the sin unto death.
“If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.” 1 John 5:16
Therefore, that baptism command from the Lord Jesus is a procedural contract that is to be understood and implemented by all people of the world. The baptism itself is performed in the name of Jesus.
“Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'” Acts 2:38
“On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 19:4
CONCLUSION
There’s a duality inherent in God, not a trinity. It is Father and Son. It is a duality of one.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
ADDENDUM
How The Holy Spirit Helps
1) He causes us to become like Christ by getting us to produce the fruit of the Spirit.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22-23
Faithfulness is to God’s commandments.
“If you love me, keep my commands.” John 14:15
2) He intercedes on our behalf. The way He does that is by causing us to pray in tongues. To the skeptics, praying in tongues may sound like gibberish, but it’s not. It’s a heavenly language.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…” 1 Corinthians 13:1
“Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered.” Romans 8:26
“One who speaks in tongues edifies himself…” 1 Corinthians 14:4
3) He teaches us and guides us.
“...the Holy Spirit .. will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:26
He enlightens the word of God (i.e., the Bible) for us, making it go beyond intellectual assent, and causing it to coalesce deep inside our spirit man (i.e., He teaches us). Then He reminds us of it, warning us when we’re about to do something that God forbids, or egging us on when God wants us to step into whatever service (the Duties Of Ministry and the Everyday Life Ministry) He has prepared for us.
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
The Holy Spirit mostly reminds us of God’s written word because God doesn’t want the unscrupulous to attribute to Him things He never said. For example, if someone dares say that following the lead of the Holy Spirit they have come to realize that God no longer considers fornication to be a sin, then we would immediately know that they are lying because according to God’s laws fornication IS a sin. Consequently, the Holy Spirit and God’s written word form a system of checks and balances.
The more we study the word, the more the Holy Spirit helps us cleave to the truth. The more we live out God’s commandments, the more sensitive we become to His guidance, the more cleansed our mind, the more attuned our soul, and the more fruitful our work.
When we allow the Holy Spirit to help in said manners, we are thus walking by the Spirit.
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 16-21
However, when we do not walk by the Spirit, we fulfill the desires of the flesh. And unfortunately, when we gratify these passions we must be ready to suffer the various consequences of sin.
“Without holiness no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12: 14
C H U R C H R E F O R M S E R I E S
By Biblicism Institute
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27
What does that verse really mean?
It means that there is a duality inherent in God, Father and Son. Therefore God created that same duality in mankind, male and female. That duality is itself God’s image in mankind.
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’ ” Genesis 1:26
When Philip asked Jesus to show him the Father, here’s how Jesus answered:
“Philip said to Him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ ‘ ” John 8:9
There was no mention of the Holy Spirit. That’s because God is a duality of one, Father and Son.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
Nowhere in the bible does Jesus or anyone say that The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one. However, the Holy Spirit carries the power of the duality.
“…stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” Luke 24:49
“…the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Genesis 1: 2-4
God speaks and the Spirit executes.
A NEW HELPER
Before Jesus left earth, He told the disciples that after His departure He would ask the Father to send the Helper.
“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you always.” John 14:16
While Jesus was here, He was the one helping the disciples. But upon the Holy Spirit’s arrival, the Spirit would become that other helper. However, as Philip clearly demonstrated, everyone wanted to see and deal with the Father. They got to do just that. Jesus was the Father’s physical manifestation, both one and the same.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.” John 1: 1,14
“For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9
As Jesus was readying the disciples for the Helper, they became melancholic. They had become accustomed to dealing directly with the Big Boss Himself, the Father. So why a Helper now? Why change a good thing?
“Because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” John 16: 6,7
For example, imagine that everyday you are dealing personally with the President of the Company where you work, but one fine day you are told that you’ll no longer be doing so, and that from now on you’ll have to deal with his helper or personal assistant. You’d feel somewhat cheated, wouldn’t you? Well, Jesus knew the disciples would be in such a frame of mind, so He sternly warned them not to blaspheme or speak irreverently of the Helper just because he wasn’t the Father.
“And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.” Luke 12:10
Before the advent of the Holy Spirit heavenly help was given through angels like Gabriel or Michael.
“The angel said to him, ‘I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.’ ” Luke 1:19
“But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.” Daniel 10:13
However, this time around, thanks to the New Covenant in Christ’s blood, God was about to unleash His most powerful weapon, the Spirit, for the benefit of all believers.
THE SPIRIT
Ezekiel got a glimpse of the Spirit.
Ezekiel Chapter 1:
Ezekiel's Vision
4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. 10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 11 Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. 12 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the Spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 13 The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 14 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning. 15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. 19 When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. 20 Wherever the Spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 21 When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
The Spirit is a mind-blowing sight, almost frightfully so. He projects an awesome display of power via four living creatures and their dazzling embodiments.
First, Ezekiel noticed that wherever the Spirit would go, the four living creatures would go. But then he zoomed in on the wheels which moved the creatures about. And if the creatures went wherever the Spirit went and the wheels moved the creatures about, ergo the wheels were moved by the Spirit. As a result, the Spirit was in the wheels and was working the wheels, just like a driver behind the wheels of his car.
Ezekiel used the subsequent wording in his first observation of the movement of the Spirit and the four living creatures: Wherever the Spirit would go, they [creatures] would go. However when he noticed that the wheels moved the creatures about, he used the same structure: When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved. And finally he understood that the Spirit was in the wheels, so he wrapped both of these observations together in one sentence: Wherever the Spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the Spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. Said conclusion was repeated twice in order to make sure we understand it.
FIRE AND THE QUADRUPLY
As can be clearly observed, the Spirit is a quadruply, whereas God is a duality. He’s a quadruply because he is personified as four living creatures, so designed in order to watch over the believers (as in all four rims were full of eyes all around) in the four corners of the earth.
“…the nations in the four corners of the earth…” Revelation 20:8
“I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth…” Revelation 7:1
Another obvious manifestation of the Spirit is Fire.
“The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures… The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.” Ezekiel 1:4-5,13
Pentecost
As the disciples waited in Jerusalem, the promised Holy Spirit finally arrived on Pentecost.
“For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” Acts 1:5
God made sure the unveiling of the Holy Spirit was festively celebratory. He exhibited in our physical world one of the Spirit’s heavenly characteristics, Fire. Said Fire has the ability and power to regulate and alter things on earth. The proof of it was quite conspicuous and in full display that day.
“Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.” Acts 2:3,4
Since then all believers have been able to be so baptized in order to receive the gift of Fire from the Holy Spirit, albeit the spark would subsequently be made to only kindle inside the spirit man without the original Pentecostal outer display of artifice.
“On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve men in all.” Acts 19: 4-7
The original physical manifestation of the flames of Fire on Pentecost was also intended to purposefully set apart the Holy Spirit from Angels in the minds of the disciples. After all, Angels are also Spirits from God or Spirit Angels of God or Holy Angels of God.
“But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.” John 16: 13-15
Thus these things John spoke of are the Father’s and the Son’s. They belong to the two of them, not to the three of them. And the Spirit, not “on His own initiative,” is allowed to take of Christ’s to give to us.
And what does the Spirit take of Christ to give to us? The Fire of God.
“Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire…” Exodus 19:18
“And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.” Numbers 9:15
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.” Matthew 3:11
The Fire of God is the very presence of God, and it contains His essence which is His Word. And every Word of God is Truth.
“For the word of the LORD is right and true.” Psalm 33:4
Therefore the Fire of the Word of God became flesh in Jesus the Christ, Himself the Truth.
“I am the Truth!” John 14:6
The Spirit of Truth, as Jesus called Him, is a Spirit who belongs to the Truth, and as such has been tasked to carry the Fire of God’s Word of Truth, which He embodies, and to deliver it to the believers.
” ‘Is not my word like fire,’ declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 23:29
“The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches.” Ezekiel 1:5
Thus the Spirit dispenses the Holy Fire of God’s Truth (Jesus) by placing it (Him) inside the believers.
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19
“If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.” Romans 8:10
However, the Spirit doesn’t just convoy and supply the Fire and then leaves. He is with the believers always, and as such maintains and cultivates the Fire within them to the point of total consumption.
“For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12: 29
“The fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.” 1 Corinthians 3:13
“…another Helper, that he may abide with you always…” John 14:16
That’s why the Apostle Paul warned thus:
“Do not quench the Spirit.” 1 Thessalonians 5:19
THE TESTIMONY
“For there are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three agree as one. For there are three that bear witness in earth: the Spirit and the water and the blood; these three agree throughout as one.” 1 John 5:7,8 (Biblicism Institute Translation)
In every bible version, the above verses (especially verse 7) are wrongly translated from the Greek.
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. For there are three that bear record in earth: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree in one.” 1 John 5:7,8 (KJV)
Notice that in verse 7 (KJV), the Greek word eisi is translated as are, but in verse 8, that same word eisi is translated as agree.
Why did the translators feel the need to create such a glaring discrepancy? Because they assumed (wrongly) that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one, and that their “oneness” would somehow explain their agreement.
Additionally, let’s follow John’s train of thought.
For there are three that bear record in heaven….
For there are three that bear record in earth…
John was establishing a record of testimony. To bear record or to bear witness is to testify. And what is God’s law concerning testimony?
“At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses…” Deuteronomy 17:6
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” 2 Corinthians 13:1
Therefore the essence of those verses was to establish a testimony or a record by 3 witnesses: 3 in heaven and 3 in earth. The goal of a testimony with many witnesses is to demonstrate that all of them are in agreement.
In verse 7, the translators (of KJV and others) tried hard to construct a non-existent trinity because they realized there were no other verses in the bible that pointed to it. Not one verse in the whole bible directs us to believe that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one and the same. So they felt it was their opportunity to somehow rectify a “wrong” in order to validate their presupposition.
If we leave their translation as is, it would only point to a false unity of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit as a trinity (three persons as they believe) and not to their agreement as befitting witnesses, which John was trying to convey.
Unfortunately for the trinity theory, if the testimony of the 3 witnesses in Heaven put forth by John is to be valid, the record must indicate that they are in agreement just like the 3 witnesses on earth are properly recorded to be in agreement in verse 8.
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” 2 Corinthians 13:1
Here are 3 testimonies by 3 witnesses concerning God the Father and God the Son as a duality of one.
“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’).” Matthew 1:23 (Apostle Matthew)
“For in Him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9 (Apostle Paul)
“In the beginning was the Word… And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.” John 1: 1,14 (Apostle John)
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30 (Apostle John quoting Jesus Himself)
However, no such testimony of 3 witnesses exists to validate the trinity theory.
THE HIERARCHY
The bible is quite clear on how God and Christ are “physically” and authoritatively positioned in Heaven vis-a-vis the Spirit.
“And between the throne and the four living creatures… I saw a Lamb standing.” Revelation 5:6
First, the Apostle John witnessed that God the Father was seated on His throne (Revelation 5), while Jesus the Lamb was temporarily standing between the throne and the Spirit (the quadruply).
Then, as John was allowed to glimpse further ahead at the renewal of all things, He saw Jesus on the throne with the Father, something Jesus Himself prophesied.
“Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne…’ ” Matthew 19:28
Here’s what John saw.
“For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” Revelation 7:17
“The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.” Revelation 22:3
Jesus is seated on the throne with the Father, but the Spirit is not on the throne.
Ezekiel saw that last part (i.e., the figure of a man on the throne) while John saw the whole drama unfolding starting from before Christ sat down. This is what Ezekiel witnessed:
“Above the vault over their heads [of the quadruply of the Spirit] was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.” Ezekiel 1:26
Again, Jesus is seen on the throne, but the Spirit is not on the throne.
“I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Revelation 3:21
There exists only one throne for the the Father and the Son, not two thrones. And that throne is always above the quadruply of the Spirit, both in the Old and the New Testaments. Therefore God the duality, Father and Son, is distinct from the Spirit. Further, God the duality – as witnessed by Ezekiel and John – became fully integrated as one when Jesus sat on the Throne with His Father.
“The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4
THE BAPTISM
How can we reconcile all of the above with the following verse?
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” Matthew 28:19
The Apostle Paul gives us the answer.
“…the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:14
The Holy Spirit is thus the gift that seals our salvation on the day of redemption. He is the one who keeps the Fire burning until the day when we cash in our inheritance.
“And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30
When we are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we are baptized into a contract that stipulates the following: we become part of the Father’s family because of salvation in the Son purchased with His blood, and in turn we are given a pledge of our eternal inheritance, with said pledge being the Spirit Himself (with His gift of the Holy Fire of God), the guarantor of our redemption.
Consequently, if we curse and blaspheme that pledge, we blaspheme and spit on the very One who’s helping us apply all of God’s enduring laws as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12) and with a view to claiming our inheritance, which Christ paid for with His Life. Hence for such irreverence there is no forgiveness. The Apostle John called it the sin unto death.
“If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.” 1 John 5:16
Therefore, that baptism command from the Lord Jesus is a procedural contract that is to be understood and implemented by all people of the world. The baptism itself is performed in the name of Jesus.
“Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'” Acts 2:38
“On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 19:4
CONCLUSION
There’s a duality inherent in God, not a trinity. It is Father and Son. It is a duality of one.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30
ADDENDUM
How The Holy Spirit Helps
1) He causes us to become like Christ by getting us to produce the fruit of the Spirit.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5: 22-23
Faithfulness is to God’s commandments.
“If you love me, keep my commands.” John 14:15
2) He intercedes on our behalf. The way He does that is by causing us to pray in tongues. To the skeptics, praying in tongues may sound like gibberish, but it’s not. It’s a heavenly language.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…” 1 Corinthians 13:1
“Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered.” Romans 8:26
“One who speaks in tongues edifies himself…” 1 Corinthians 14:4
3) He teaches us and guides us.
“...the Holy Spirit .. will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:26
He enlightens the word of God (i.e., the Bible) for us, making it go beyond intellectual assent, and causing it to coalesce deep inside our spirit man (i.e., He teaches us). Then He reminds us of it, warning us when we’re about to do something that God forbids, or egging us on when God wants us to step into whatever service (the Duties Of Ministry and the Everyday Life Ministry) He has prepared for us.
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
The Holy Spirit mostly reminds us of God’s written word because God doesn’t want the unscrupulous to attribute to Him things He never said. For example, if someone dares say that following the lead of the Holy Spirit they have come to realize that God no longer considers fornication to be a sin, then we would immediately know that they are lying because according to God’s laws fornication IS a sin. Consequently, the Holy Spirit and God’s written word form a system of checks and balances.
The more we study the word, the more the Holy Spirit helps us cleave to the truth. The more we live out God’s commandments, the more sensitive we become to His guidance, the more cleansed our mind, the more attuned our soul, and the more fruitful our work.
When we allow the Holy Spirit to help in said manners, we are thus walking by the Spirit.
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 16-21
However, when we do not walk by the Spirit, we fulfill the desires of the flesh. And unfortunately, when we gratify these passions we must be ready to suffer the various consequences of sin.
“Without holiness no one will see the Lord.” Hebrews 12: 14
Perichoresis (from Greek: περιχώρησις perikhōrēsis, "rotation") is a term referring to the relationship of the three persons of the triune God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) to one another. Circumincession is a Latin-derived term for the same concept.
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message that he is sending.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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pan·the·ism/ˈpanTHēˌizəm/
noun
a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
worship that admits or tolerates all gods.
Pantheism is the belief that all reality is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God
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pan·the·ism/ˈpanTHēˌizəm/
noun
a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
worship that admits or tolerates all gods.
Pantheism is the belief that all reality is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God
OT FEASTS:
Leviticus 23 King James Version (KJV)
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.
The Seven Feasts of Israel
Submitted by Hal Warren
Through the feasts, God forecast the entire career of the Messiah, the Jews, the Church, and even the other nations. The Hebrew word for “feasts” (moadim) literally means "appointed times." The feasts were laid out in the calendar year with the first three occurring close together, then the coming of the Holy Spirit shortly after, followed by the long pause waiting the Rapture of the Church. We also see God's clever design shown in the earthly week - six feasts of work and the last one of rest. The biblical history has described some six thousand years, and if we are to foresee the kingdom somewhere in the near future, then a logical one thousand year rest period is coming up.
I. The Feast of PASSOVER (Leviticus 23:5)
God's calendar is a lunar calendar based on the phases of the moon. Each month starts with a new moon, reaching a full moon in the midst of the 28 day cycle. Thus Passover always falls on a full moon - the first full moon of spring (usually April).
Passover is the feast of salvation from sin. For the Hebrews it was deliverance from bondage (Exodus 12), and for the Christian, deliverance from sin. Jesus was sacrificed on Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7. John 19:14). The Jews marked their houses with the blood of the lamb, and the Christian marks his house (his body, 2 Corinthians 5:1. 1 Corinthians 6:19;3:16) with the blood of Christ (Hebrews 9:22, Ephesians 1:7. Revelation 1:5. Romans 5:9. Ephesians 2:13. 1 John 1:7. 1 Peter 1:18,19. Acts 20:28. Revelation 12:11). We do not keep the feast in remembrance of the exodus from Egypt, since that was a shadow of the greater redemption to come. We take communion, a part of the original Passover feast, in remembrance of the Lord (Matthew 26:27. John 1:29).
II. The feast of UNLEAVENED BREAD (Leviticus 23:6)
The second feast begins on the next night after Passover. God told the Jews to eat only the pure unleavened bread during the week following Passover. Leaven in the Bible typically symbolized sin and evil (1 Corinthians 5:7,8). Unleavened bread, eaten over a period of time symbolized a holy walk with the Lord. In the New Testament, the unleavened bread is the body of our Lord (John 6:33). The piece of bread, Jewish matzo, used by the Jews during this week of Unleavened Bread was striped (just like Jesus' body, Isaiah 53). The Passover ceremony of breaking and burying and then resurrecting a piece of this bread presents the Gospel in the midst of the modern Jewish Passover celebration. God performed this exact ceremony with the burial of Jesus on the exact day of the feast. Men have speculated how Jesus died so quickly on the cross. Crucifixion normally took three days but Jesus died in 6 hours. Our Lord died in time to be buried at sundown that day. He was placed on the cross at 9:00 a.m. and taken down at 3:00 p.m. There was time enough to wrap the body and bury it at sundown. Jesus said that no one could take His life from Him - "I lay it down and I take it up again." (John 10:17,18)
III. The feast of FIRST FRUITS (Leviticus 23:10,11)
Held on the Sunday following Unleavened Bread. God wanted a special feast during which the Jews would acknowledge the fertility of the fine land He gave them. They were to bring the early crops of their spring planting (first fruits) to the priest at the Temple to be waved before the Lord on their behalf. This was to be done "the morrow after the Sabbath" or Sunday. Since the feast of Unleavened Bread was seven days long, one of those days would be a Sunday. We have come to call this feast Easter (actual translation: PASSOVER)...after the Babylonian goddess, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. But the celebration was to be over God's replanting of the earth in the spring. We miss an important truth by not using the term "First Fruits" because "first" implies a second, third, etc... We celebrate the resurrection of the Lord as First Fruit (1 Corinthians 15:20,23) and the resurrection of the rest of us as we each follow Him in our own time to Heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17).
Jesus celebrated the Sunday of the week of His crucifixion by rising from the dead. It was not some other day He chose but the very day of First Fruits. First Fruits was the last of the feasts that the Lord was seen personally fulfilling on earth. But His ministry to the Church was to go on of course, in the feasts to follow, each on their appropriate days.
IV. The feast of PENTECOST (Leviticus 23:17)
God gave very specific directions for counting the proper number of days until the Feast of Harvest, which we refer to as Pentecost. It was to take place exactly 50 days after First Fruits (usually late May or early June). It actually marked the summer harvest. Here two "wave loaves" of equal weight were baked with leaven, representing sinful man and called "firstfruits" thereby representing redeemed or resurrected men. God was predicting that the Church would be comprised of two parts, Jew and Gentile. Jesus rejoined His disciples after His resurrection and taught them for forty days. Then He told them to wait at Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit would come. And He did, exactly on the day of the feast (Acts 1:3). It was a great "harvest" of souls as 3000 people joined in that day (Acts 2:1. Exodus 32:28). Of course that is only a token of the harvest that will occur at the rapture of the church.
Four coincidences are hard to explain away, especially when each one is so completely appropriate to its purpose. Because we have not yet seen the fulfillment to feast number five, we remain under the orders of Pentecost, continuing the summer crop cultivation, as we work in the field until the great harvest marked by the next feast.
V. The feast of TRUMPETS (Leviticus 23:24)
In the seventh month (usually in September), on the first day of the month, they had a memorial of blowing of trumpets. This jump in time from the last feast represents the Church Age, since the trumpet represents the Gathering up of God's Elite (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:51,52).
The trumpet blowing was a signal for the field workers to stop harvesting and leave immediately for worship at the Temple. Imagine a Jew and Arab working side by side in the field. The Jew would leave and the Arab would stay. "Where there are two working in a field, one will be taken and the other left." (Matthew 24:40)
VI. The feast of ATONEMENT (Leviticus 23:27)
On the Day of Atonement, the Jew either lived or died. The High Priest of Israel entered the Holy of Holies to make a sacrifice on behalf of himself and Israel. If the Jew did not strictly follow the law of Leviticus 23:28-30 and Leviticus 23:32, he could be cut off from his people. For that 24 hour period he was to do no work, but rather was to use the time for confessing his sins of the entire year. We might even balk at the idea of merely staying awake for 24 hours, but if our salvation hung in the balance, we would try to make it.
This feast will not be fulfilled by the church, because the church owes no atonement. The church is not innocent of course, but Jesus has paid the price for our sins.
The Day of Atonement will be fulfilled for the Jews when the Lord returns at His second coming (Zechariah 12:10. Romans 11:1-6;25-36).
VII. The feast of TABERNACLES (Leviticus 23:34)
This is God's celebration of the fact that He provided shelter for the Israelites in the wilderness. Each year on Tabernacles, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, devout Jews build little shelters outside their houses, and worship in them.
God's great Tabernacle will exist in Jerusalem during the Kingdom Age (Zechariah 14:16-19). All the world will come every year to appear before the King and worship Him (1) (Ezekiel 37:26,27. Micah 4:1-7).
Festival/Holiday \tDate *
"New Year's Day" (only for reference) \tMarch 19, 2018
Passover/Pesach \tApril 1, 2018
1st Day of Unleavened Bread \tApril 2, 2018
7th Day of Unleavened Bread \tApril 8, 2018
Pentecost/Weeks (Shavuot) \tMay 27, 2018
Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah/"Rosh Hashanah") \tSeptember 11, 2018
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) \tSeptember 20, 2018
Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) \tSept 25–Oct 1, 2018
Last Great Day (Shemini Atzeret) \tOctober 2, 2018
* Note: All holy days begin the previous evening at sunset.
NOTES ON OBSERVING THE OT FEASTS IN MODERN TIMES:
1. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute FOR EVER throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
2. Unlearned bread= no flour. This is the time to remove ALL bread containing flour and sacks of flour from the home (donate it to the needy/poor).
3. Burnt Offering= cooked meat (see details regarding WHICH meat to use).
4. To recognize Jesus's Sacrifice, no slaughter of animals is required by His people but a (Jewish) butcher can provide the appropriate meat.
5. Convocation: Gathering (congregational)
6. Share with the poor/needy
Leviticus 23 King James Version (KJV)
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
4 These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
26 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37 These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38 Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.
39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the Lord.
The Seven Feasts of Israel
Submitted by Hal Warren
Through the feasts, God forecast the entire career of the Messiah, the Jews, the Church, and even the other nations. The Hebrew word for “feasts” (moadim) literally means "appointed times." The feasts were laid out in the calendar year with the first three occurring close together, then the coming of the Holy Spirit shortly after, followed by the long pause waiting the Rapture of the Church. We also see God's clever design shown in the earthly week - six feasts of work and the last one of rest. The biblical history has described some six thousand years, and if we are to foresee the kingdom somewhere in the near future, then a logical one thousand year rest period is coming up.
I. The Feast of PASSOVER (Leviticus 23:5)
God's calendar is a lunar calendar based on the phases of the moon. Each month starts with a new moon, reaching a full moon in the midst of the 28 day cycle. Thus Passover always falls on a full moon - the first full moon of spring (usually April).
Passover is the feast of salvation from sin. For the Hebrews it was deliverance from bondage (Exodus 12), and for the Christian, deliverance from sin. Jesus was sacrificed on Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7. John 19:14). The Jews marked their houses with the blood of the lamb, and the Christian marks his house (his body, 2 Corinthians 5:1. 1 Corinthians 6:19;3:16) with the blood of Christ (Hebrews 9:22, Ephesians 1:7. Revelation 1:5. Romans 5:9. Ephesians 2:13. 1 John 1:7. 1 Peter 1:18,19. Acts 20:28. Revelation 12:11). We do not keep the feast in remembrance of the exodus from Egypt, since that was a shadow of the greater redemption to come. We take communion, a part of the original Passover feast, in remembrance of the Lord (Matthew 26:27. John 1:29).
II. The feast of UNLEAVENED BREAD (Leviticus 23:6)
The second feast begins on the next night after Passover. God told the Jews to eat only the pure unleavened bread during the week following Passover. Leaven in the Bible typically symbolized sin and evil (1 Corinthians 5:7,8). Unleavened bread, eaten over a period of time symbolized a holy walk with the Lord. In the New Testament, the unleavened bread is the body of our Lord (John 6:33). The piece of bread, Jewish matzo, used by the Jews during this week of Unleavened Bread was striped (just like Jesus' body, Isaiah 53). The Passover ceremony of breaking and burying and then resurrecting a piece of this bread presents the Gospel in the midst of the modern Jewish Passover celebration. God performed this exact ceremony with the burial of Jesus on the exact day of the feast. Men have speculated how Jesus died so quickly on the cross. Crucifixion normally took three days but Jesus died in 6 hours. Our Lord died in time to be buried at sundown that day. He was placed on the cross at 9:00 a.m. and taken down at 3:00 p.m. There was time enough to wrap the body and bury it at sundown. Jesus said that no one could take His life from Him - "I lay it down and I take it up again." (John 10:17,18)
III. The feast of FIRST FRUITS (Leviticus 23:10,11)
Held on the Sunday following Unleavened Bread. God wanted a special feast during which the Jews would acknowledge the fertility of the fine land He gave them. They were to bring the early crops of their spring planting (first fruits) to the priest at the Temple to be waved before the Lord on their behalf. This was to be done "the morrow after the Sabbath" or Sunday. Since the feast of Unleavened Bread was seven days long, one of those days would be a Sunday. We have come to call this feast Easter (actual translation: PASSOVER)...after the Babylonian goddess, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. But the celebration was to be over God's replanting of the earth in the spring. We miss an important truth by not using the term "First Fruits" because "first" implies a second, third, etc... We celebrate the resurrection of the Lord as First Fruit (1 Corinthians 15:20,23) and the resurrection of the rest of us as we each follow Him in our own time to Heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17).
Jesus celebrated the Sunday of the week of His crucifixion by rising from the dead. It was not some other day He chose but the very day of First Fruits. First Fruits was the last of the feasts that the Lord was seen personally fulfilling on earth. But His ministry to the Church was to go on of course, in the feasts to follow, each on their appropriate days.
IV. The feast of PENTECOST (Leviticus 23:17)
God gave very specific directions for counting the proper number of days until the Feast of Harvest, which we refer to as Pentecost. It was to take place exactly 50 days after First Fruits (usually late May or early June). It actually marked the summer harvest. Here two "wave loaves" of equal weight were baked with leaven, representing sinful man and called "firstfruits" thereby representing redeemed or resurrected men. God was predicting that the Church would be comprised of two parts, Jew and Gentile. Jesus rejoined His disciples after His resurrection and taught them for forty days. Then He told them to wait at Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit would come. And He did, exactly on the day of the feast (Acts 1:3). It was a great "harvest" of souls as 3000 people joined in that day (Acts 2:1. Exodus 32:28). Of course that is only a token of the harvest that will occur at the rapture of the church.
Four coincidences are hard to explain away, especially when each one is so completely appropriate to its purpose. Because we have not yet seen the fulfillment to feast number five, we remain under the orders of Pentecost, continuing the summer crop cultivation, as we work in the field until the great harvest marked by the next feast.
V. The feast of TRUMPETS (Leviticus 23:24)
In the seventh month (usually in September), on the first day of the month, they had a memorial of blowing of trumpets. This jump in time from the last feast represents the Church Age, since the trumpet represents the Gathering up of God's Elite (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:51,52).
The trumpet blowing was a signal for the field workers to stop harvesting and leave immediately for worship at the Temple. Imagine a Jew and Arab working side by side in the field. The Jew would leave and the Arab would stay. "Where there are two working in a field, one will be taken and the other left." (Matthew 24:40)
VI. The feast of ATONEMENT (Leviticus 23:27)
On the Day of Atonement, the Jew either lived or died. The High Priest of Israel entered the Holy of Holies to make a sacrifice on behalf of himself and Israel. If the Jew did not strictly follow the law of Leviticus 23:28-30 and Leviticus 23:32, he could be cut off from his people. For that 24 hour period he was to do no work, but rather was to use the time for confessing his sins of the entire year. We might even balk at the idea of merely staying awake for 24 hours, but if our salvation hung in the balance, we would try to make it.
This feast will not be fulfilled by the church, because the church owes no atonement. The church is not innocent of course, but Jesus has paid the price for our sins.
The Day of Atonement will be fulfilled for the Jews when the Lord returns at His second coming (Zechariah 12:10. Romans 11:1-6;25-36).
VII. The feast of TABERNACLES (Leviticus 23:34)
This is God's celebration of the fact that He provided shelter for the Israelites in the wilderness. Each year on Tabernacles, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, devout Jews build little shelters outside their houses, and worship in them.
God's great Tabernacle will exist in Jerusalem during the Kingdom Age (Zechariah 14:16-19). All the world will come every year to appear before the King and worship Him (1) (Ezekiel 37:26,27. Micah 4:1-7).
Festival/Holiday \tDate *
"New Year's Day" (only for reference) \tMarch 19, 2018
Passover/Pesach \tApril 1, 2018
1st Day of Unleavened Bread \tApril 2, 2018
7th Day of Unleavened Bread \tApril 8, 2018
Pentecost/Weeks (Shavuot) \tMay 27, 2018
Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah/"Rosh Hashanah") \tSeptember 11, 2018
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) \tSeptember 20, 2018
Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) \tSept 25–Oct 1, 2018
Last Great Day (Shemini Atzeret) \tOctober 2, 2018
* Note: All holy days begin the previous evening at sunset.
NOTES ON OBSERVING THE OT FEASTS IN MODERN TIMES:
1. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute FOR EVER throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
2. Unlearned bread= no flour. This is the time to remove ALL bread containing flour and sacks of flour from the home (donate it to the needy/poor).
3. Burnt Offering= cooked meat (see details regarding WHICH meat to use).
4. To recognize Jesus's Sacrifice, no slaughter of animals is required by His people but a (Jewish) butcher can provide the appropriate meat.
5. Convocation: Gathering (congregational)
6. Share with the poor/needy
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Biblical Gifts
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER
Our Basic Motivations
There are seven motivational gifts listed in Romans 12:3-8. Very few of us are characterized by only one of these gifts. Most often, each of us has a combination of several of them. However, there will usually be one of these gifts that is more pronounced. When we closely examine the Greek text itself, we see that the list of gifts in Romans 12 has to do with how each of us is made. These gifts portray, or characterize, our basic motivations – that is, how we perceive, understand, and approach life and ministry. These basic characteristics are built into our personalities, placed there by our Creator. But they are more than just personality traits. They are gifts that our Heavenly Father has sovereignly given to each of us.
Given For God’s Service
We can attempt to resist these God-given motivations within us; or we can cooperate by putting them to service for the One Who gave them to us. It is also possible for us to grow and strengthen these gifts. This will help us to fulfill all of God’s purposes for our lives. We can do this by continually surrendering to the Lordship of Christ in our lives and submitting our whole being to His use. We should walk in faith and obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leading, allowing our Lord to stretch us, discipline us, and mature us.
In this way, we can discover all that God has made us to be today; and, with His help, we can become all that He intends for us to become into the future.
The Seven Gifts
Let us look together at Romans 12:3-8:
v.3: “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
vs.4-5: “For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
v.6a: “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them:
vs.6b·8: “if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. “ Before we look at the specifics of the gifts listed in verses 6b-8, there are some crucial principles to understand. These principles are presented to us in verses 3-6a.
Understanding these principles will help us clearly grasp the importance of this list of gifts. We will also more thoroughly appreciate and understand each person’s uniqueness –yet interdependency-within the Body of Christ.
1. Your “Measure of Faith” (v.3).
A. A Sober Mind
The Spirit of God, through Paul,begins this section by exhorting us to “right thinking” concerning ourselves.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER:
Paul reminds the church at Rome that he is an apostle (“For I say, through the grace given to me…”) and, therefore, speaks with authority and Divine appointment. He then goes on to instruct the believers not to think more “highly” of themselves than they ought to.
This is more than just a warning against the subtlety of pride and selfishness. Yes, it is that; but when linked with the rest of verse 3, it takes on even more meaning.
First, we are told to “think soberly“.This refers back to the preceding verse, 12:2: “And do not be conformed to this world , but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.” To think soberly (v.3) with a renewed mind (v.2) is to think with a clear mind.
The Greek word used in verse 3 is sophroneo. This word means “to be of sound {whole, unimpaired) mind or judgment, sane, self-controlled, serious, moderate, restrained, disciplined, able to reason.” It comes from two Greek root-words: sozo (“to save” or “saved”) and phren (“the mind”). The Holy Spirit is teaching us here that a redeemed believer is NOT to think 1) with self-conceit, that he is better than others in the Body of Christ; or 2) with self- abasement, that he is less valuable than others in the Body of Christ. BOTH ways of thinking are equally unsound and unscriptural. Rather, we are to think with a transformed mind characterized by true humility and gratitude to God.
B. Why Humility And Gratitude?
Humility is best defined as being exactly what you are; no more and no less. We should be grateful, because both the gifts and their proper and effective operation come from God through the power of the Holy Spirit. Truly, we are only earthly vessels- yet vessels of importance because of the priceless treasure we contain! (2 Cor 4:7). We could never acquire or obtain God’s gifts by our own efforts or cleverness. And, no matter how much we desire them, we cannot have gifts other than those God has given to us. By walking in humility and gratitude, we become more balanced and more useable in the Master’s hands. The basis for our transformed, sober, dear thinking is that each of us has been given a “measure of faith”.
Avoid Self-Deception
Competitive behavior among believers, especially leaders, usually comes from a lack of sober thinking. When we allow pride – or insecurity -to guide our thinking, we become susceptible to deception and sin. Any person can be tempted to covet another person’s gift, or to be insecure about his or her own gifts. Only constant vigilance over our hearts (Prov 4:23) -and regular times of examination and cleansing by the Holy Spirit -can keep us from falling victim to the self- deception of pride on the one hand, or false modesty on the other.
C. What Is A “Measure Of Faith”?
Let us define “measure of faith” -what it is and what it is not:
This “measure of faith” is NOT “saving faith” (the kind of faith that is concerned with our salvation). No person can be “more saved” than You are either saved, or you are not. The presence of a gift, or its use, does NOT mean that one person has more saving faith than another. This “measure of faith” is NOT an amount of faith, Faith is not divided into pieces by God and handed out in larger or smaller amounts to different people. It is also NOT about trying to become more “spiritual” so you can have a larger amount of faith, or more gifts. This “measure of faith” IS that type of faith that is best suited for the operation of each particular gift in its area of In other words, someone who has the gift of giving needs the type of faith that will release him to give liberally, without holding back. A teacher needs the type of faith that will enable him to boldly stand before others and rightly present the truth.Father God has made each of us in a certain way, with certain gifts. He has also given us the type of faith needed to best use our gifts.
D. Thinking Soberly
With that in mind, the exhortation regarding sober thinking takes on even greater impact.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER
If we think we possess gifts that we have not been given (or strive to get them!), we have an inflated notion of ourselves. We sin by thinking too highly (or just plain wrongly) about ourselves and what God has given to us. But if we underestimate what God has placed in our lives, we are enslaved to a false humility that seems to be very spiritual but is not spiritual at all (Col 2:23). We will doubt or deny the gifts God has given us, and never rise up and fully use those gifts. Thus, all that God could accomplish through our lives will go unfulfilled, and the Body of Christ will never receive all that we could give.
E. Stay Within Your Gift
There is another important lesson to learn about sober thinking: When you have been given a certain Motivational Gift, be content to use that gift instead of longing for other gifts. It is a wise person who stays within the sphere of service that God has equipped him for, and avoids doing something for which he is not equipped. The quickest way to become frustrated and hopeless in ministry is to try and function in an area of service where you are not equipped to function!
F. Uniqueness of the Motivational Gifts
It is important to remember the uniqueness of the Motivational Gifts. They are not like the Manifestation Gifts of I Corinthians 12, where any believer can function in any of those gifts as the Holy Spirit leads. Nor are these gifts like the Ministry Gifts of Ephesians 4:11. The Motivational Gifts (which will be discussed in detail further in this article) involve who God has made us to be. These gifts will influence how we perceive life, and how we respond to other people’s needs in a given ministry situation.
Each of us, with our unique motivational gifts, will respond to a situation somewhat differently than others who have other gifts. The important thing is that each gift is just as important as the other gifts. And ALL the gifts are equally important for effective and complete ministry.
G.Our Value
The kinds of gifts we have do not determine our value to the Body of Christ, nor to God. For we all belong to one Body, and need each other’s different gifts to function correctly. We all belong to God because we have all been created in His image and purchased by the blood of His Son. These facts establish forever our personal worth and value. Our worth is not based upon the kind of gifts we have, or the size of our ministry. Each person is valuable to God and to His Kingdom just as He has created him or her. Let us discard all prideful posturing and striving. Instead, let us with praise-filled hearts embrace all the Father has chosen to give to each one of us!
2. We Are One Body (Rom 12:4,5)
Paul’s comments here are shorter than in 1 Corinthians 12, but the meaning is...
In verse 3 Paul writes, “God has allotted to each a [different} measure of faith”. Here in verses 4,5 the Holy Spirit uses the illustration of the human body to recombine these different measures of faith. As each human body has many different members, each with its own particular function, so does the one Body of Christ. Two important principles emerge from verses 4 and 5:
A. “We are ONE Body in Christ.”
We each belong to Christ’s Body. We do not belong to just ourselves. Therefore to despise, criticize, or be judgmental of another part of the Body denies and hinders the different functions God intended for His Church. He made each of us unique and different! There are no lesser gifts or persons! Because we are all members of His Body, we should treat each other with the kind of care and respect that would please the Lord.
B. “We are Members of One Another.”
Believers are members not only of One Body, but also of each other. This means we are mutually inter-dependent. The Body can function properly only when each member does its part. Therefore, it is very important for each member/ gift/ function to be recognized. Each one should be taught and encouraged to minister in the Body. The differences within the Body enrich all other members, as each member accepts the full expression of each gift God has given to the Body of Christ. With these principles in mind, let us now examine in detail the seven Motivational Gifts listed in Romans 12:6-8. As we look at each gift, we will discuss:
characteristics of each gift, and
scriptural examples of each gift
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF PROPHECY
v.6 – Perceiver- Ongoing Insight
A person with the Motivational Gift of Prophecy could also be called a “perceptive” person. That is someone who sees and understands the deeper meaning of a situation. We are not talking about revelation, that is, seeing something never seen before. We are talking about having the light of the Word of God and the Spirit of God giving holy illumination to the mind of the person in order to reveal the truth of a situation. This Motivational Gift is characterized by the ability to:
see or perceive beyond surface appearances;
receive and declare truth about a situation;
receive and declare insight about people or programs.
This creative gift from our Heavenly Father gives a believer the ability to see situations and people with ongoing prophetic insight . This gift (like the rest of the gifts listed in Romans 12) functions independent of any public ministry or position. In other words, someone with the Motivational Gift of Prophecy is NOT the same as someone with the Ministry Gift of Prophet.
For The Church’s Benefit
As with any gift, the Motivational Gift of Prophecy can be used in a helpful and beneficial way -or it can be twisted and used to hurt. It is given by God and intended to be used for His glory and the Church’s benefit.
This gift can motivate a person to want to:
repair broken relationships in the Body of Christ;
improve or build up a person’s walk with God.
Persons with this gift will desire to “cut to the heart of a matter” – whether it is a problem between people, or a spiritual challenge in the church. They will often desire to speak out the truth they perceive, whether it is to an individual or a group. It is very important to remember, however, that having the Motivational Gift of Prophecy does not necessarily make you a prophet. Sometimes a person motivated by this gift may also be a teacher with unusual insight in a local assembly. Or that person may be a good counselor. Yet it is possible, even likely, that a person with the Motivational Gift of Prophecy will often be used prophetically (l Cor 12:10) by the Spirit of God . He may even have the Ministry Gift of Prophet (Eph. 4:11). Persons with this Motivational Gift tend to be very “clear-cut” in their approach. To them, something is either true and right -or it is false and wrong; there is no “middle ground”, and there are no exceptions. Persons with this Motivational Gift need to seek the balance of learning to be merciful and gentle as they seek to exhort, correct, instruct and warn others.
Proper Use Of This Gift
Verse 6 uses the phrase “in proportion to their faith.” This sounds like the “measure of faith ” spoken of in verse 3, yet it is different. “Measure of faith” has to do with having sober judgment (v. 3) regarding the place or sphere of influence that our Motivational Gifts give to each of us
“In proportion to our faith” refers to the proper usage of the prophetic gifting. The Greek word for proportion is analogi, used to describe mathematical limits. In relation to this gift, analogi means two things: The person who is prophetically gifted in speaking God’s word must not go beyond that which God has given him to speak. This same person must not withhold, or give less than,the full truth as God shows it to him. The proper use of every gift of God requires us to be responsible, and to use it correctly. Those who have the Motivational Gift of Prophecy must use their words very carefully. They should not say more or less than God has given them to say.
It should be said as well that EVERYTHING SPOKEN FROM A PROPHETIC BASIS MUST BE JUDGED AND COMPARED TO GOD’S WRITTEN WORD, THE BIBLE. A prophetic word should never disagree with what is already in the Bible. Both the person who hears the prophetic word and the person who speaks with prophetic insight should do this comparison.
It is very important for a person with this gift to make very certain that what he is perceiving is from God’s Spirit -not from his own spirit, or a demonic influence! It is not always easy to distinguish between God’s Spirit speaking and our own spirit or even an evil spirit speaking to us. A person who is young in the Lord might become confused and make mistakes. One must humbly admit to those mistakes, and carefully submit to God in prayer and the study of His Word (2 Pet 3:15-18).
Points Of Caution
This Motivational Gift most often focuses on things that are wrong. Therefore, if you have this gift, you must be careful to not dwell on the negative. You should also be careful to judge the sin, NOT the person caught in the sin.
One should speak with respect and sensitivity, so as not to offend people so badly that they miss what God wants to say to them.
A Scriptural Example Of Prophetic: Gifting
John the Baptist was truly a man gifted with the Ministry Gift of Prophet. His gifting and ministry form a “bridge” between the ministries of the Old Testament prophets and those of the New Testament prophets. John the Baptist’s primary calling was fulfilled through the Ministry Gift of a Prophet (Eph 4:11). However, his life and ministry can also give us some insight into the function of the Motivational Gift of the prophetic:
His unconventional dress (Matt 3:4) shows that he was not concerned about external appearance. He was aware of his personal unworthiness (Luke 3:16). People with a prophetic gift tend to be hard on themselves. He knew he was only a voice for God. His ministry was completely scripturally based, as we can see in Luke 3:3-6. He was frank and direct in confronting the crowd with their sin, warning them of judgment, and exhorting them to repent (Luke 3:7-9). He did not dwell on the negative. When people from the crowd asked, “What shall we do then?” he told them the positive steps they could take to turn from their sin (Luke 3:10-14). He looked for repentance, that is, a change in lifestyle in people (Luke 3:8). He placed great emphasis on right (good) and wrong (evil) (Luke 3:10-14) and openly rebuked evil in those in authority (Luke 3:19). He discerned people’s motives (Luke 3:7).
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF MINISTRY (Serving)
V.7 – Server – A Spirit Of Servanthood
The Greek word used here for “ministry” is diakonia. This is one of the Greek words used for “servant“. Some would limit the use of this word to only that ministry or service done by a deacon (which is derived from diakonia). ‘This is not an unreasonable interpretation.
However, this word is used in Scripture in a much wider application. Diakonia almost always appears in the New Testament in connection with the service of, and in, the Christian Church. It is used in the following ways in the New Testament:
Service in general, meaning all works of service and ministry done for the good of the Body of Christ (Eph 4:12). As the apostolic ministry and the ministering of the Word (Acts 6:4;20:24). In the office of deacon and its areas of service and ministry (Acts 6:1-3). Some are especially gifted in the area of service. They are fulfilled when they are serving the needs of others impractical ways. But there is an important lesson to be learned here, regardless of your giftings. The above scriptures imply -and many others specifically state -that everything we do and are as Christians, and especially leaders, is to be marked by a spirit of servanthood. No matter what your God-given gifts are, or the extent of the ministry God has given you, you are not greater than the Lord of the Church. (John 15:20). Everything we do is in service to Him, and to His Church.
If you desire to be conformed into His image -He Who gave His life for us -your life and ministry should be characterized by a Christ-like, servant’s heart (Matt 20:20-28).
Task-Oriented
Serving is one of the Motivational Gifts that God the Father gives to us at our creation, our birth. Serving focuses on the giving of practical assistance and help. Those who have the gift of Ministry (service) will often have the ability to identify an unmet need in the Body. They will desire to move in and do what needs to be done to meet that need. They will demonstrate God’s love by meeting practical needs and giving “hands-on” service and assistance . You will often find these people helping the poor and infirm. Those with the Gift of Ministry will often be gifted with their hands and have physical stamina. The Gift of Ministry is task-oriented.
The Honor Of Serving
This Motivational Gift of Serving is often underestimated and regarded as “unspiritual”. Because it is often focused on material and physical benefits, many look down upon those who minister in this way as less important. Thus, the gift of serving is of ten neglected and not honored in the Body of Christ. But remember, it was Jesus Himself – the ultimate Servant – Who was humble enough to serve others by washing their feet (John 13:3-17). Also, the qualifications for deacon in 1 Timothy 3:8-13 require these “servers” to be people of Christ-like and worthy character. And when the apostles first instituted the office of deacon, they specifically sought out people of “good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom” (Acts 6:1-7).
These verses prove that being a servant is NOT a lowly thing in God’s Kingdom! Maybe the world of fleshly, unspiritual men sees a servant as “lowly”, but a servant is most certainly NOT lowly in God’s eyes (see Matthew 25:34-40).
From a wrong, fleshly human perspective, this gift can be viewed as not very important. If this wrong perspective is believed, the person with the Motivational Gift of Service might view himself as unimportant and so deny the good gift God has given him for the Church. If service is not considered important, then the person will want to grab for other gifts that appear to be more “glorious” and more “important”. This wrong thinking and neglect of the gift of service leaves an empty place in what should be a well- rounded and balanced ministry in and to the Body. It will also leave the person with this gift both empty and frustrated, trying vainly to find a release of ministry outside what God has gifted him for. If we leave ailing members of the Body uncared for because of a lack of this servant gift, our testimony in our local communities is damaged. It can even invalidate the Gospel message in the minds of unbelievers when they see us not serving and caring for our own members.
A Good Standing
The ministry of the Server is both valuable and truly spiritual, and an important part of the Church’s witness. The Server should devote himself to this ministry with joy and confidence, for “those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 3:13).
A Scriptural Example Of Ministry (Serving) Gifting
Martha is an example of someone with the Motivational Gift of Ministry (service). Luke 10:38-42 and John 12:2 show both the positive and potential negative outcomes of this gift:
Servers find fulfillment through deeds rather than “Martha served.” Servers have a tendency to prefer to do things. Servers are generally neither organizers nor They are better at following directions.
“Martha was distracted with much ” Servers often get too involved and troubled about things. Also they find it hard to say “no” to new tasks (Luke 10:40-41). Servers may get so busy serving that they could potentially neglect their spiritual life (Luke 10:42). But.. Servers are important, and are required for any church to function!!!
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF TEACHING
v.7 – Teacher- Imparters Of Truth
This creational gift focuses on the understanding. Believers with this gift will seek to clarify truth and doctrine, expounding upon the meaning and practical application of the truth. They will desire to impart knowledge and lead others into understanding the truth. To search out and validate truth will be as meaningful to those motivated by this gift as the actual imparting of it to others (1 Tim 5:17).
Needed In The Church – And The World
Some believers feel that being a teacher is a lesser gift and not to be desired. Yet how many of us have learned something valuable from a teacher? You are able to read this magazine because someone taught you how! It is seldom that the world notices who the teachers are; but often much of civilization depends on what teachers do and say. Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Church and the greatest Teacher of all, has given this gift to us because the Church needs it -you and I need it! In God’s Kingdom, there are no lesser gifts or little people.
A Scriptural Example Of The Teaching Gift
Apollos is an excellent example of the Motivational Gift of Teaching (Acts 18:24-28; 1 Cor 3:6):
The teacher “waters” (1 Cor 3:6) – that is, helps the Church (believers) to grow. Apollos was “an eloquent man,” that is, gifted as a speaker.
Apollos was “mighty in the Scriptures.” Teachers should base their instruction on the Scriptures, including their examples or illustrations. Apollos “spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord. Teachers are generally objective, and will thoroughly research a subject before speaking on it. Apollos was instructed “more accurately” by Aquila and Scripture says that teachers should also be teachable. Apollos “greatly helped those who had believed through “ Teachers provide the substance (the foundational Scriptures) on which experience can be placed and made permanent. Experiences, by themselves, can pass away; experience based in the Word is permanent.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF EXHORTING
v.8 – Exhorter- Sons Of Encouragement
As teaching is directed to the understanding, exhortation is directed at the heart, conscience and will. This gifting, working through a believer, will cause him to urge others to their full spiritual maturity. The operation of this gift is often directed toward those who are in difficult circumstances and suffering affliction.
The Motivational Gift of Exhortation works well in partnership with other gifts, such as teaching, and the prophetic and apostolic ministry gifts (l Tim 4:13; Titus 1:9; 1 Cor 14:3;Acts 4:36).
An exhorter will arouse and motivate both individual believers and the Church as a whole to patient endurance, brotherly love, and good works (Heb 3:13; 10:23-25). Exhorters will have a great ability to stimulate the faith and personal growth of others.
A Scriptural Example Of The Exhorting Gift
Barnabas is an outstanding portrayal of the exhorting gift, and of how that gift worked in partnership with his apostleship:
“Barnabas” means “son of encouragement or consolation“(Acts 4:36). Exhorters have an encouraging message, that is, to follow the Lord purposefully (Acts 11:22-24). The exhorter’s message strengthens the souls of the believers and urges them to continue in the faith (Acts 14:20-22). Exhorters are generally positive about people and do not easily give up on them -even when others have (Acts 9:26,27). Exhorters have an ability to discern where people are in their spiritual growth and to speak to them on that level (Acts 11:22-24). It is important for an exhorter to maintain a positive attitude. If Barnabas had not exhorted the apostles to accept Saul (Paul), or exhorted Paul to accept Mark, almost half of the New Testament -the Gospel of Mark and the Epistles of Paul -might never have been written! (See Acts 15:37-39 and 2 Timothy 4:11).
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF GIVING
V.8- The Giver- A Deep Desire
This gift involves a special ability – and desire -to share material assistance. The giving being discussed here is of personal resource -NOT the distribution out of the treasury of the Church. You do NOT have to be wealthy to have this gift. However, it does seem that those with this motivational gift have often been blessed with abundant resource . It seems the more they give, the more they have! They also seem to have the corresponding abilities to accumulate, handle and distribute assets. They will give out of a deep desire to see the needs of God’s work met and the ministry of others succeed. All believers, especially the leaders of a church or ministry, should tithe and give offerings. But those with the special Gift of Giving will give with extraordinary liberality -even when in poverty and affliction (Mark 12:41-44).
Purity Of Motive
The word “simplicity” (or “liberality” in some translations) comes from the Greek word laplotetes. This term sometimes means “liberality” in Scripture. But here it means single-mindedness of heart, a purity of motive or purpose. Since the giving involves personal resource, the giver should NEVER have a selfish motive. Sometimes the wealthy will make a donation expecting to gain influence or advantage for himself or herself . The ruling elders or senior pastor should never allow this (see James Chapter 2). If such a motive is suspected, those in leadership should make clear to the giver that there will be no advantage allowed him. If the person giving the gift does not understand or agree, the gift should be refused. God will provide for your needs another way. [For an example of how God feels about impure motives in giving, see Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11.]
A Scriptural Example Of The Giver
The life of Abraham provides us with some insights as to the functioning of this gift:
Givers may be entrusted by God with many assets (Gen 13:1,2).
Givers are of a generous and liberal spirit (Gen 13:9,10).
Givers can be very aggressive and resourceful in the protection of their assets (Gen 14:14-16).
Givers recognize God’s work and causes, and are responsive (Gen 14:18-20 -Melchizedek and tithing). .
Givers have a firm knowledge that God is the source of their wealth, and give Him the glory (Gen 14:22-24).
God puts givers in the right place at the right
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF LEADING
v.8 – The Leader – Servant-Leadership
The Greek word for “rules” (or “leads”) is ho proistemi . It means literally “he that is placed in front,” indicating a position of both authority and responsibility. Both of these go hand-in-hand in God’s Kingdom and are tempered by a servant’s heart. The “leading” described by this word is NOT to be mistaken for simple management. Nor does it describe a gift that puts the person into a prominent public ministry. Rather, it strongly indicates a requirement to lead for the good of the Body with a sense of personal responsibility. Hence, the exhortation to “lead with diligence“. The word translated as “diligence” means “prompt efficiency”, “without delay”, “a holy haste or zeal”. All of this requires self-discipline and vigilance as to the condition of the flock.
Partnering With Others
Paul’s description of the Gift of Leading seems most likely to refer to those who hold (l Thess 5:12) or aspire to (l Tim 3:1) the office of Elder. However, this Motivational Gift functions in partnership with many of the other Ministry Gifts -such as apostle, prophet, pastor and teacher.
Those who have this gift will lead by working with and through others. They will often get the job done by organizing and delegating responsibilities and authority to others. A leader will define the tasks and provide leadership support and guidance -while releasing others to partner in accomplishing the goal.
A Scriptural Example Of The Gift Of Leader
Nehemiah serves as an example of superb leadership skills and heart motivation:
Leaders have a special feel for the cause of God’s people (Neh 1:1-4).
Leaders have the ability to survey and define what needs to be done (Neh 2:12-17).
Leaders have the ability to break down major goals into smaller achievable tasks (Neh 3:1-32).
Leaders can take pressure and opposition and still proceed (Neh 4:1-23).
Leaders make things “easy” for others and are not a personal burden (Neh 5:14-19).
Leaders know how to delegate the authority needed to accomplish the responsibility given (Neh 7:1-2).
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF MERCY
v.8- Mercy Shower Compassion
This gift is similar in some ways to the Motivational Gift of Giver. However, the word “mercy” denotes a more direct, personal ministry to those in need. Believers so gifted will have an ability to identify with the needs and afflictions of those they come in contact with. This gift will include a practical, compassionate love. They can make very goo counselors if they will also use wisdom and discipline.
Uplifting Others
The Scripture exhorts those who have this Gift of Mercy to show it with “cheerfulness “. There is an important idea being put forth here. Often the work of mercy can be difficult, even disagreeable, because the mercy-showers will minister to people in their worst condition. This can, over time, make the mercy-shower become grudging or even resentful in helping others. This negative attitude defeats the very purpose of mercy. A cheerful mercy uplifts those that are sick, wounded of soul or discouraged. A grudging, reluctant mercy would make the afflicted person feel despised . The best way to stay cheerful is to constantly be going to Him Whose mercies are “new every morning” (Lam 3:22-23) and be filled daily with His Spirit. Mercy-filled believers function best when they build themselves up through the Word and prayer on a daily basis.
A Scriptural Example Of The Gift Of Mercy
There could be no better example of mercy shown in Scripture (except for God Himself) than the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:29-37:
Mercy-showers have great compassion for the hurting (v. 33). ”He went to him” (v.34). Mercy-showers seem drawn to the broken
Mercy-showers participate in a practical way: they are ready to do what needs to be done and “get their hands dirty” if necessary – as when the Samaritan bandaged the victim’s wounds and “took care of him” (v.34). Mercy-showers are sensitive to people’ s practical needs: The Samaritan paid the victim’s bill (v.35). Showing mercy can lead to considerable personal inconvenience – yet great fulfillment. Most importantly, ACTS OF MERCY SHOW OTHERS THE TRUE HEART OF OUR MERCIFUL GOD.
A Quick Comparison of The Motivational Gifts
Having studied the unique characteristics of each of these motivational gifts, let us look at how these gifts might function in a hypothetical situation.
Seven people are sitting around a table having lunch. These seven people happen to be motivated by different gifts in their lives. One is inclined toward serving, another toward giving, etc. Someone bumps a glass with their elbow, causing it to fall from the edge of the table, shattering the glass. The seven each react in a different way:
The Perceiver (prophetic person) says: “I knew that was going to happen.” The Server (ministry) says: “Here, I’ll clean it up.”The Teacher says: “Now, there’s a lesson we can learn from that. If you had placed the glass in a better spot… ” The Exhorter (encourager) turns to the person who dropped the glass and says:”Don’t feel bad- it probably won’t happen again." “And don’t worry,” the Giver adds, “I’ll pay for the glass!” Meanwhile the Leader quickly takes charge of the situation by asking the waiter for a broom and dustpan and another glass of water. And the Mercy person says, “Oh, that’s too bad. I hope you are all right now.” As this simple illustration shows, each person’s unique motivational gifts will cause that person to:
a) see a situation from a different viewpoint than others who have different motivational gifts, and
b) respond to that situation in a different way than others who have other
The important thing to remember is this: Though each gift is unique, all the gifts are designed to function together. They are designed by God to be mutually interdependent. In other words, they need each other to accomplish all that Christ desires to do in His Body -the Church!
Some Important Principles About Motivational Gifts
As we have studied this gift section together, it has probably become obvious to you that the Person of Jesus Christ in His life and ministry is the perfect embodiment of each of these gifts (see Colossians 1:19 & 2:9; Hebrews 1:3). It is hoped that it is equally obvious from Scripture that each believer has at least one gift in which he or she is motivated (l Pet 4:10); and that the purpose of these gifts is that each believer might benefit the Body of Christ (see Ephesians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 12:7;14:12). In considering the motivational gifts, it is important to remember that God builds those gifts into us. But, as with all the gifts, the Lordship of Christ in our lives is necessary for them to function correctly. We must not neglect these gifts (1 Tim 4:14), but rather “stir them up” (2 Tim 1:6) for God to use them for His glory. Because the motivational gifts are equal in stature and value, we must always make room for other perspectives seen through the various gifts. We can be a balanced and healthy Body only when each of us does our part fully. Then we must fully allow every other part to contribute their portion, for the good of all.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER
Our Basic Motivations
There are seven motivational gifts listed in Romans 12:3-8. Very few of us are characterized by only one of these gifts. Most often, each of us has a combination of several of them. However, there will usually be one of these gifts that is more pronounced. When we closely examine the Greek text itself, we see that the list of gifts in Romans 12 has to do with how each of us is made. These gifts portray, or characterize, our basic motivations – that is, how we perceive, understand, and approach life and ministry. These basic characteristics are built into our personalities, placed there by our Creator. But they are more than just personality traits. They are gifts that our Heavenly Father has sovereignly given to each of us.
Given For God’s Service
We can attempt to resist these God-given motivations within us; or we can cooperate by putting them to service for the One Who gave them to us. It is also possible for us to grow and strengthen these gifts. This will help us to fulfill all of God’s purposes for our lives. We can do this by continually surrendering to the Lordship of Christ in our lives and submitting our whole being to His use. We should walk in faith and obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leading, allowing our Lord to stretch us, discipline us, and mature us.
In this way, we can discover all that God has made us to be today; and, with His help, we can become all that He intends for us to become into the future.
The Seven Gifts
Let us look together at Romans 12:3-8:
v.3: “For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
vs.4-5: “For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
v.6a: “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them:
vs.6b·8: “if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. “ Before we look at the specifics of the gifts listed in verses 6b-8, there are some crucial principles to understand. These principles are presented to us in verses 3-6a.
Understanding these principles will help us clearly grasp the importance of this list of gifts. We will also more thoroughly appreciate and understand each person’s uniqueness –yet interdependency-within the Body of Christ.
1. Your “Measure of Faith” (v.3).
A. A Sober Mind
The Spirit of God, through Paul,begins this section by exhorting us to “right thinking” concerning ourselves.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER:
Paul reminds the church at Rome that he is an apostle (“For I say, through the grace given to me…”) and, therefore, speaks with authority and Divine appointment. He then goes on to instruct the believers not to think more “highly” of themselves than they ought to.
This is more than just a warning against the subtlety of pride and selfishness. Yes, it is that; but when linked with the rest of verse 3, it takes on even more meaning.
First, we are told to “think soberly“.This refers back to the preceding verse, 12:2: “And do not be conformed to this world , but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.” To think soberly (v.3) with a renewed mind (v.2) is to think with a clear mind.
The Greek word used in verse 3 is sophroneo. This word means “to be of sound {whole, unimpaired) mind or judgment, sane, self-controlled, serious, moderate, restrained, disciplined, able to reason.” It comes from two Greek root-words: sozo (“to save” or “saved”) and phren (“the mind”). The Holy Spirit is teaching us here that a redeemed believer is NOT to think 1) with self-conceit, that he is better than others in the Body of Christ; or 2) with self- abasement, that he is less valuable than others in the Body of Christ. BOTH ways of thinking are equally unsound and unscriptural. Rather, we are to think with a transformed mind characterized by true humility and gratitude to God.
B. Why Humility And Gratitude?
Humility is best defined as being exactly what you are; no more and no less. We should be grateful, because both the gifts and their proper and effective operation come from God through the power of the Holy Spirit. Truly, we are only earthly vessels- yet vessels of importance because of the priceless treasure we contain! (2 Cor 4:7). We could never acquire or obtain God’s gifts by our own efforts or cleverness. And, no matter how much we desire them, we cannot have gifts other than those God has given to us. By walking in humility and gratitude, we become more balanced and more useable in the Master’s hands. The basis for our transformed, sober, dear thinking is that each of us has been given a “measure of faith”.
Avoid Self-Deception
Competitive behavior among believers, especially leaders, usually comes from a lack of sober thinking. When we allow pride – or insecurity -to guide our thinking, we become susceptible to deception and sin. Any person can be tempted to covet another person’s gift, or to be insecure about his or her own gifts. Only constant vigilance over our hearts (Prov 4:23) -and regular times of examination and cleansing by the Holy Spirit -can keep us from falling victim to the self- deception of pride on the one hand, or false modesty on the other.
C. What Is A “Measure Of Faith”?
Let us define “measure of faith” -what it is and what it is not:
This “measure of faith” is NOT “saving faith” (the kind of faith that is concerned with our salvation). No person can be “more saved” than You are either saved, or you are not. The presence of a gift, or its use, does NOT mean that one person has more saving faith than another. This “measure of faith” is NOT an amount of faith, Faith is not divided into pieces by God and handed out in larger or smaller amounts to different people. It is also NOT about trying to become more “spiritual” so you can have a larger amount of faith, or more gifts. This “measure of faith” IS that type of faith that is best suited for the operation of each particular gift in its area of In other words, someone who has the gift of giving needs the type of faith that will release him to give liberally, without holding back. A teacher needs the type of faith that will enable him to boldly stand before others and rightly present the truth.Father God has made each of us in a certain way, with certain gifts. He has also given us the type of faith needed to best use our gifts.
D. Thinking Soberly
With that in mind, the exhortation regarding sober thinking takes on even greater impact.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE FATHER
If we think we possess gifts that we have not been given (or strive to get them!), we have an inflated notion of ourselves. We sin by thinking too highly (or just plain wrongly) about ourselves and what God has given to us. But if we underestimate what God has placed in our lives, we are enslaved to a false humility that seems to be very spiritual but is not spiritual at all (Col 2:23). We will doubt or deny the gifts God has given us, and never rise up and fully use those gifts. Thus, all that God could accomplish through our lives will go unfulfilled, and the Body of Christ will never receive all that we could give.
E. Stay Within Your Gift
There is another important lesson to learn about sober thinking: When you have been given a certain Motivational Gift, be content to use that gift instead of longing for other gifts. It is a wise person who stays within the sphere of service that God has equipped him for, and avoids doing something for which he is not equipped. The quickest way to become frustrated and hopeless in ministry is to try and function in an area of service where you are not equipped to function!
F. Uniqueness of the Motivational Gifts
It is important to remember the uniqueness of the Motivational Gifts. They are not like the Manifestation Gifts of I Corinthians 12, where any believer can function in any of those gifts as the Holy Spirit leads. Nor are these gifts like the Ministry Gifts of Ephesians 4:11. The Motivational Gifts (which will be discussed in detail further in this article) involve who God has made us to be. These gifts will influence how we perceive life, and how we respond to other people’s needs in a given ministry situation.
Each of us, with our unique motivational gifts, will respond to a situation somewhat differently than others who have other gifts. The important thing is that each gift is just as important as the other gifts. And ALL the gifts are equally important for effective and complete ministry.
G.Our Value
The kinds of gifts we have do not determine our value to the Body of Christ, nor to God. For we all belong to one Body, and need each other’s different gifts to function correctly. We all belong to God because we have all been created in His image and purchased by the blood of His Son. These facts establish forever our personal worth and value. Our worth is not based upon the kind of gifts we have, or the size of our ministry. Each person is valuable to God and to His Kingdom just as He has created him or her. Let us discard all prideful posturing and striving. Instead, let us with praise-filled hearts embrace all the Father has chosen to give to each one of us!
2. We Are One Body (Rom 12:4,5)
Paul’s comments here are shorter than in 1 Corinthians 12, but the meaning is...
In verse 3 Paul writes, “God has allotted to each a [different} measure of faith”. Here in verses 4,5 the Holy Spirit uses the illustration of the human body to recombine these different measures of faith. As each human body has many different members, each with its own particular function, so does the one Body of Christ. Two important principles emerge from verses 4 and 5:
A. “We are ONE Body in Christ.”
We each belong to Christ’s Body. We do not belong to just ourselves. Therefore to despise, criticize, or be judgmental of another part of the Body denies and hinders the different functions God intended for His Church. He made each of us unique and different! There are no lesser gifts or persons! Because we are all members of His Body, we should treat each other with the kind of care and respect that would please the Lord.
B. “We are Members of One Another.”
Believers are members not only of One Body, but also of each other. This means we are mutually inter-dependent. The Body can function properly only when each member does its part. Therefore, it is very important for each member/ gift/ function to be recognized. Each one should be taught and encouraged to minister in the Body. The differences within the Body enrich all other members, as each member accepts the full expression of each gift God has given to the Body of Christ. With these principles in mind, let us now examine in detail the seven Motivational Gifts listed in Romans 12:6-8. As we look at each gift, we will discuss:
characteristics of each gift, and
scriptural examples of each gift
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF PROPHECY
v.6 – Perceiver- Ongoing Insight
A person with the Motivational Gift of Prophecy could also be called a “perceptive” person. That is someone who sees and understands the deeper meaning of a situation. We are not talking about revelation, that is, seeing something never seen before. We are talking about having the light of the Word of God and the Spirit of God giving holy illumination to the mind of the person in order to reveal the truth of a situation. This Motivational Gift is characterized by the ability to:
see or perceive beyond surface appearances;
receive and declare truth about a situation;
receive and declare insight about people or programs.
This creative gift from our Heavenly Father gives a believer the ability to see situations and people with ongoing prophetic insight . This gift (like the rest of the gifts listed in Romans 12) functions independent of any public ministry or position. In other words, someone with the Motivational Gift of Prophecy is NOT the same as someone with the Ministry Gift of Prophet.
For The Church’s Benefit
As with any gift, the Motivational Gift of Prophecy can be used in a helpful and beneficial way -or it can be twisted and used to hurt. It is given by God and intended to be used for His glory and the Church’s benefit.
This gift can motivate a person to want to:
repair broken relationships in the Body of Christ;
improve or build up a person’s walk with God.
Persons with this gift will desire to “cut to the heart of a matter” – whether it is a problem between people, or a spiritual challenge in the church. They will often desire to speak out the truth they perceive, whether it is to an individual or a group. It is very important to remember, however, that having the Motivational Gift of Prophecy does not necessarily make you a prophet. Sometimes a person motivated by this gift may also be a teacher with unusual insight in a local assembly. Or that person may be a good counselor. Yet it is possible, even likely, that a person with the Motivational Gift of Prophecy will often be used prophetically (l Cor 12:10) by the Spirit of God . He may even have the Ministry Gift of Prophet (Eph. 4:11). Persons with this Motivational Gift tend to be very “clear-cut” in their approach. To them, something is either true and right -or it is false and wrong; there is no “middle ground”, and there are no exceptions. Persons with this Motivational Gift need to seek the balance of learning to be merciful and gentle as they seek to exhort, correct, instruct and warn others.
Proper Use Of This Gift
Verse 6 uses the phrase “in proportion to their faith.” This sounds like the “measure of faith ” spoken of in verse 3, yet it is different. “Measure of faith” has to do with having sober judgment (v. 3) regarding the place or sphere of influence that our Motivational Gifts give to each of us
“In proportion to our faith” refers to the proper usage of the prophetic gifting. The Greek word for proportion is analogi, used to describe mathematical limits. In relation to this gift, analogi means two things: The person who is prophetically gifted in speaking God’s word must not go beyond that which God has given him to speak. This same person must not withhold, or give less than,the full truth as God shows it to him. The proper use of every gift of God requires us to be responsible, and to use it correctly. Those who have the Motivational Gift of Prophecy must use their words very carefully. They should not say more or less than God has given them to say.
It should be said as well that EVERYTHING SPOKEN FROM A PROPHETIC BASIS MUST BE JUDGED AND COMPARED TO GOD’S WRITTEN WORD, THE BIBLE. A prophetic word should never disagree with what is already in the Bible. Both the person who hears the prophetic word and the person who speaks with prophetic insight should do this comparison.
It is very important for a person with this gift to make very certain that what he is perceiving is from God’s Spirit -not from his own spirit, or a demonic influence! It is not always easy to distinguish between God’s Spirit speaking and our own spirit or even an evil spirit speaking to us. A person who is young in the Lord might become confused and make mistakes. One must humbly admit to those mistakes, and carefully submit to God in prayer and the study of His Word (2 Pet 3:15-18).
Points Of Caution
This Motivational Gift most often focuses on things that are wrong. Therefore, if you have this gift, you must be careful to not dwell on the negative. You should also be careful to judge the sin, NOT the person caught in the sin.
One should speak with respect and sensitivity, so as not to offend people so badly that they miss what God wants to say to them.
A Scriptural Example Of Prophetic: Gifting
John the Baptist was truly a man gifted with the Ministry Gift of Prophet. His gifting and ministry form a “bridge” between the ministries of the Old Testament prophets and those of the New Testament prophets. John the Baptist’s primary calling was fulfilled through the Ministry Gift of a Prophet (Eph 4:11). However, his life and ministry can also give us some insight into the function of the Motivational Gift of the prophetic:
His unconventional dress (Matt 3:4) shows that he was not concerned about external appearance. He was aware of his personal unworthiness (Luke 3:16). People with a prophetic gift tend to be hard on themselves. He knew he was only a voice for God. His ministry was completely scripturally based, as we can see in Luke 3:3-6. He was frank and direct in confronting the crowd with their sin, warning them of judgment, and exhorting them to repent (Luke 3:7-9). He did not dwell on the negative. When people from the crowd asked, “What shall we do then?” he told them the positive steps they could take to turn from their sin (Luke 3:10-14). He looked for repentance, that is, a change in lifestyle in people (Luke 3:8). He placed great emphasis on right (good) and wrong (evil) (Luke 3:10-14) and openly rebuked evil in those in authority (Luke 3:19). He discerned people’s motives (Luke 3:7).
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF MINISTRY (Serving)
V.7 – Server – A Spirit Of Servanthood
The Greek word used here for “ministry” is diakonia. This is one of the Greek words used for “servant“. Some would limit the use of this word to only that ministry or service done by a deacon (which is derived from diakonia). ‘This is not an unreasonable interpretation.
However, this word is used in Scripture in a much wider application. Diakonia almost always appears in the New Testament in connection with the service of, and in, the Christian Church. It is used in the following ways in the New Testament:
Service in general, meaning all works of service and ministry done for the good of the Body of Christ (Eph 4:12). As the apostolic ministry and the ministering of the Word (Acts 6:4;20:24). In the office of deacon and its areas of service and ministry (Acts 6:1-3). Some are especially gifted in the area of service. They are fulfilled when they are serving the needs of others impractical ways. But there is an important lesson to be learned here, regardless of your giftings. The above scriptures imply -and many others specifically state -that everything we do and are as Christians, and especially leaders, is to be marked by a spirit of servanthood. No matter what your God-given gifts are, or the extent of the ministry God has given you, you are not greater than the Lord of the Church. (John 15:20). Everything we do is in service to Him, and to His Church.
If you desire to be conformed into His image -He Who gave His life for us -your life and ministry should be characterized by a Christ-like, servant’s heart (Matt 20:20-28).
Task-Oriented
Serving is one of the Motivational Gifts that God the Father gives to us at our creation, our birth. Serving focuses on the giving of practical assistance and help. Those who have the gift of Ministry (service) will often have the ability to identify an unmet need in the Body. They will desire to move in and do what needs to be done to meet that need. They will demonstrate God’s love by meeting practical needs and giving “hands-on” service and assistance . You will often find these people helping the poor and infirm. Those with the Gift of Ministry will often be gifted with their hands and have physical stamina. The Gift of Ministry is task-oriented.
The Honor Of Serving
This Motivational Gift of Serving is often underestimated and regarded as “unspiritual”. Because it is often focused on material and physical benefits, many look down upon those who minister in this way as less important. Thus, the gift of serving is of ten neglected and not honored in the Body of Christ. But remember, it was Jesus Himself – the ultimate Servant – Who was humble enough to serve others by washing their feet (John 13:3-17). Also, the qualifications for deacon in 1 Timothy 3:8-13 require these “servers” to be people of Christ-like and worthy character. And when the apostles first instituted the office of deacon, they specifically sought out people of “good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom” (Acts 6:1-7).
These verses prove that being a servant is NOT a lowly thing in God’s Kingdom! Maybe the world of fleshly, unspiritual men sees a servant as “lowly”, but a servant is most certainly NOT lowly in God’s eyes (see Matthew 25:34-40).
From a wrong, fleshly human perspective, this gift can be viewed as not very important. If this wrong perspective is believed, the person with the Motivational Gift of Service might view himself as unimportant and so deny the good gift God has given him for the Church. If service is not considered important, then the person will want to grab for other gifts that appear to be more “glorious” and more “important”. This wrong thinking and neglect of the gift of service leaves an empty place in what should be a well- rounded and balanced ministry in and to the Body. It will also leave the person with this gift both empty and frustrated, trying vainly to find a release of ministry outside what God has gifted him for. If we leave ailing members of the Body uncared for because of a lack of this servant gift, our testimony in our local communities is damaged. It can even invalidate the Gospel message in the minds of unbelievers when they see us not serving and caring for our own members.
A Good Standing
The ministry of the Server is both valuable and truly spiritual, and an important part of the Church’s witness. The Server should devote himself to this ministry with joy and confidence, for “those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 3:13).
A Scriptural Example Of Ministry (Serving) Gifting
Martha is an example of someone with the Motivational Gift of Ministry (service). Luke 10:38-42 and John 12:2 show both the positive and potential negative outcomes of this gift:
Servers find fulfillment through deeds rather than “Martha served.” Servers have a tendency to prefer to do things. Servers are generally neither organizers nor They are better at following directions.
“Martha was distracted with much ” Servers often get too involved and troubled about things. Also they find it hard to say “no” to new tasks (Luke 10:40-41). Servers may get so busy serving that they could potentially neglect their spiritual life (Luke 10:42). But.. Servers are important, and are required for any church to function!!!
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF TEACHING
v.7 – Teacher- Imparters Of Truth
This creational gift focuses on the understanding. Believers with this gift will seek to clarify truth and doctrine, expounding upon the meaning and practical application of the truth. They will desire to impart knowledge and lead others into understanding the truth. To search out and validate truth will be as meaningful to those motivated by this gift as the actual imparting of it to others (1 Tim 5:17).
Needed In The Church – And The World
Some believers feel that being a teacher is a lesser gift and not to be desired. Yet how many of us have learned something valuable from a teacher? You are able to read this magazine because someone taught you how! It is seldom that the world notices who the teachers are; but often much of civilization depends on what teachers do and say. Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Church and the greatest Teacher of all, has given this gift to us because the Church needs it -you and I need it! In God’s Kingdom, there are no lesser gifts or little people.
A Scriptural Example Of The Teaching Gift
Apollos is an excellent example of the Motivational Gift of Teaching (Acts 18:24-28; 1 Cor 3:6):
The teacher “waters” (1 Cor 3:6) – that is, helps the Church (believers) to grow. Apollos was “an eloquent man,” that is, gifted as a speaker.
Apollos was “mighty in the Scriptures.” Teachers should base their instruction on the Scriptures, including their examples or illustrations. Apollos “spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord. Teachers are generally objective, and will thoroughly research a subject before speaking on it. Apollos was instructed “more accurately” by Aquila and Scripture says that teachers should also be teachable. Apollos “greatly helped those who had believed through “ Teachers provide the substance (the foundational Scriptures) on which experience can be placed and made permanent. Experiences, by themselves, can pass away; experience based in the Word is permanent.
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF EXHORTING
v.8 – Exhorter- Sons Of Encouragement
As teaching is directed to the understanding, exhortation is directed at the heart, conscience and will. This gifting, working through a believer, will cause him to urge others to their full spiritual maturity. The operation of this gift is often directed toward those who are in difficult circumstances and suffering affliction.
The Motivational Gift of Exhortation works well in partnership with other gifts, such as teaching, and the prophetic and apostolic ministry gifts (l Tim 4:13; Titus 1:9; 1 Cor 14:3;Acts 4:36).
An exhorter will arouse and motivate both individual believers and the Church as a whole to patient endurance, brotherly love, and good works (Heb 3:13; 10:23-25). Exhorters will have a great ability to stimulate the faith and personal growth of others.
A Scriptural Example Of The Exhorting Gift
Barnabas is an outstanding portrayal of the exhorting gift, and of how that gift worked in partnership with his apostleship:
“Barnabas” means “son of encouragement or consolation“(Acts 4:36). Exhorters have an encouraging message, that is, to follow the Lord purposefully (Acts 11:22-24). The exhorter’s message strengthens the souls of the believers and urges them to continue in the faith (Acts 14:20-22). Exhorters are generally positive about people and do not easily give up on them -even when others have (Acts 9:26,27). Exhorters have an ability to discern where people are in their spiritual growth and to speak to them on that level (Acts 11:22-24). It is important for an exhorter to maintain a positive attitude. If Barnabas had not exhorted the apostles to accept Saul (Paul), or exhorted Paul to accept Mark, almost half of the New Testament -the Gospel of Mark and the Epistles of Paul -might never have been written! (See Acts 15:37-39 and 2 Timothy 4:11).
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF GIVING
V.8- The Giver- A Deep Desire
This gift involves a special ability – and desire -to share material assistance. The giving being discussed here is of personal resource -NOT the distribution out of the treasury of the Church. You do NOT have to be wealthy to have this gift. However, it does seem that those with this motivational gift have often been blessed with abundant resource . It seems the more they give, the more they have! They also seem to have the corresponding abilities to accumulate, handle and distribute assets. They will give out of a deep desire to see the needs of God’s work met and the ministry of others succeed. All believers, especially the leaders of a church or ministry, should tithe and give offerings. But those with the special Gift of Giving will give with extraordinary liberality -even when in poverty and affliction (Mark 12:41-44).
Purity Of Motive
The word “simplicity” (or “liberality” in some translations) comes from the Greek word laplotetes. This term sometimes means “liberality” in Scripture. But here it means single-mindedness of heart, a purity of motive or purpose. Since the giving involves personal resource, the giver should NEVER have a selfish motive. Sometimes the wealthy will make a donation expecting to gain influence or advantage for himself or herself . The ruling elders or senior pastor should never allow this (see James Chapter 2). If such a motive is suspected, those in leadership should make clear to the giver that there will be no advantage allowed him. If the person giving the gift does not understand or agree, the gift should be refused. God will provide for your needs another way. [For an example of how God feels about impure motives in giving, see Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11.]
A Scriptural Example Of The Giver
The life of Abraham provides us with some insights as to the functioning of this gift:
Givers may be entrusted by God with many assets (Gen 13:1,2).
Givers are of a generous and liberal spirit (Gen 13:9,10).
Givers can be very aggressive and resourceful in the protection of their assets (Gen 14:14-16).
Givers recognize God’s work and causes, and are responsive (Gen 14:18-20 -Melchizedek and tithing). .
Givers have a firm knowledge that God is the source of their wealth, and give Him the glory (Gen 14:22-24).
God puts givers in the right place at the right
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF LEADING
v.8 – The Leader – Servant-Leadership
The Greek word for “rules” (or “leads”) is ho proistemi . It means literally “he that is placed in front,” indicating a position of both authority and responsibility. Both of these go hand-in-hand in God’s Kingdom and are tempered by a servant’s heart. The “leading” described by this word is NOT to be mistaken for simple management. Nor does it describe a gift that puts the person into a prominent public ministry. Rather, it strongly indicates a requirement to lead for the good of the Body with a sense of personal responsibility. Hence, the exhortation to “lead with diligence“. The word translated as “diligence” means “prompt efficiency”, “without delay”, “a holy haste or zeal”. All of this requires self-discipline and vigilance as to the condition of the flock.
Partnering With Others
Paul’s description of the Gift of Leading seems most likely to refer to those who hold (l Thess 5:12) or aspire to (l Tim 3:1) the office of Elder. However, this Motivational Gift functions in partnership with many of the other Ministry Gifts -such as apostle, prophet, pastor and teacher.
Those who have this gift will lead by working with and through others. They will often get the job done by organizing and delegating responsibilities and authority to others. A leader will define the tasks and provide leadership support and guidance -while releasing others to partner in accomplishing the goal.
A Scriptural Example Of The Gift Of Leader
Nehemiah serves as an example of superb leadership skills and heart motivation:
Leaders have a special feel for the cause of God’s people (Neh 1:1-4).
Leaders have the ability to survey and define what needs to be done (Neh 2:12-17).
Leaders have the ability to break down major goals into smaller achievable tasks (Neh 3:1-32).
Leaders can take pressure and opposition and still proceed (Neh 4:1-23).
Leaders make things “easy” for others and are not a personal burden (Neh 5:14-19).
Leaders know how to delegate the authority needed to accomplish the responsibility given (Neh 7:1-2).
THE MOTIVATIONAL GIFT OF MERCY
v.8- Mercy Shower Compassion
This gift is similar in some ways to the Motivational Gift of Giver. However, the word “mercy” denotes a more direct, personal ministry to those in need. Believers so gifted will have an ability to identify with the needs and afflictions of those they come in contact with. This gift will include a practical, compassionate love. They can make very goo counselors if they will also use wisdom and discipline.
Uplifting Others
The Scripture exhorts those who have this Gift of Mercy to show it with “cheerfulness “. There is an important idea being put forth here. Often the work of mercy can be difficult, even disagreeable, because the mercy-showers will minister to people in their worst condition. This can, over time, make the mercy-shower become grudging or even resentful in helping others. This negative attitude defeats the very purpose of mercy. A cheerful mercy uplifts those that are sick, wounded of soul or discouraged. A grudging, reluctant mercy would make the afflicted person feel despised . The best way to stay cheerful is to constantly be going to Him Whose mercies are “new every morning” (Lam 3:22-23) and be filled daily with His Spirit. Mercy-filled believers function best when they build themselves up through the Word and prayer on a daily basis.
A Scriptural Example Of The Gift Of Mercy
There could be no better example of mercy shown in Scripture (except for God Himself) than the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:29-37:
Mercy-showers have great compassion for the hurting (v. 33). ”He went to him” (v.34). Mercy-showers seem drawn to the broken
Mercy-showers participate in a practical way: they are ready to do what needs to be done and “get their hands dirty” if necessary – as when the Samaritan bandaged the victim’s wounds and “took care of him” (v.34). Mercy-showers are sensitive to people’ s practical needs: The Samaritan paid the victim’s bill (v.35). Showing mercy can lead to considerable personal inconvenience – yet great fulfillment. Most importantly, ACTS OF MERCY SHOW OTHERS THE TRUE HEART OF OUR MERCIFUL GOD.
A Quick Comparison of The Motivational Gifts
Having studied the unique characteristics of each of these motivational gifts, let us look at how these gifts might function in a hypothetical situation.
Seven people are sitting around a table having lunch. These seven people happen to be motivated by different gifts in their lives. One is inclined toward serving, another toward giving, etc. Someone bumps a glass with their elbow, causing it to fall from the edge of the table, shattering the glass. The seven each react in a different way:
The Perceiver (prophetic person) says: “I knew that was going to happen.” The Server (ministry) says: “Here, I’ll clean it up.”The Teacher says: “Now, there’s a lesson we can learn from that. If you had placed the glass in a better spot… ” The Exhorter (encourager) turns to the person who dropped the glass and says:”Don’t feel bad- it probably won’t happen again." “And don’t worry,” the Giver adds, “I’ll pay for the glass!” Meanwhile the Leader quickly takes charge of the situation by asking the waiter for a broom and dustpan and another glass of water. And the Mercy person says, “Oh, that’s too bad. I hope you are all right now.” As this simple illustration shows, each person’s unique motivational gifts will cause that person to:
a) see a situation from a different viewpoint than others who have different motivational gifts, and
b) respond to that situation in a different way than others who have other
The important thing to remember is this: Though each gift is unique, all the gifts are designed to function together. They are designed by God to be mutually interdependent. In other words, they need each other to accomplish all that Christ desires to do in His Body -the Church!
Some Important Principles About Motivational Gifts
As we have studied this gift section together, it has probably become obvious to you that the Person of Jesus Christ in His life and ministry is the perfect embodiment of each of these gifts (see Colossians 1:19 & 2:9; Hebrews 1:3). It is hoped that it is equally obvious from Scripture that each believer has at least one gift in which he or she is motivated (l Pet 4:10); and that the purpose of these gifts is that each believer might benefit the Body of Christ (see Ephesians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 12:7;14:12). In considering the motivational gifts, it is important to remember that God builds those gifts into us. But, as with all the gifts, the Lordship of Christ in our lives is necessary for them to function correctly. We must not neglect these gifts (1 Tim 4:14), but rather “stir them up” (2 Tim 1:6) for God to use them for His glory. Because the motivational gifts are equal in stature and value, we must always make room for other perspectives seen through the various gifts. We can be a balanced and healthy Body only when each of us does our part fully. Then we must fully allow every other part to contribute their portion, for the good of all.
Biblical Gifts
THE FIVE MINISTRY GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SON
What The Church Needs
The Body of Christ, the Church, is a divinely ordained organism rather than a man-made organization. It is a living, functioning, growing spiritual Body.
Because this is true, the Church needs divinely-given abilities, imparted to divinely-appointed servant-leaders.
We can try to fulfill the needs of the Church using human strength and wisdom – but we will fail! We can try to replace Holy Spirit anointing with our own knowledge, skills or cleverness. But these things will never be enough to establish God’s will and effectively minister His life to His people.
Our Lord is not opposed to education or schooling (Prov 4:7); He just knows that academic achievement by itself is insufficient (Zech 4:6; 1Cor 8:1).
The pattern seen in the New Testament is that God can powerfully use any man or woman, whether they are educated (i.e., Paul, Apollos, Luke, Matthew) or not (i.e., Peter, James, John). If their hearts and lives are fully surrendered to Him and to the power of His Spirit, He will use them!
The Church in the first century and the Church today need the same thing. They both need supernaturally chosen, divinely equipped, servant-hearted leaders!
A. Jesus Embodies The Ministry Gifts
Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church, has provided all that the Church needs. This servant-leader gifting that Christ has given to His Church is based upon the five ministry gifts. They are listed in Ephesians 4:11: “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers.”
These five ministry gifts are supernaturally given by the Lord to certain persons. These gifts reflect the person and ministry of Christ Himself.
Consider that:
Jesus is the APOSTLE
“Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus” (Heb 3:1).
Jesus is the PROPHET
“Concerning Jesus of Nazareth …a Prophet mighty in deed and word” (Luke 24:19).
Jesus is the EVANGELIST
“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth [crucified], will draw all peoples to Myself” (John 12:32).
Jesus is the PASTOR
“I am the good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep” (John 10:11).
Jesus is the TEACHER
“Rabbi, I’ve know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with Him” (John 3:2).
Jesus is the fullness and embodiment of all these ministry gifts.
B. Five Ministry Gifts Given To The Church (Eph 4:7-11)
“But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: ‘When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men’. (Now this, ‘He ascended’ –what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One Who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, arid some pastors and teachers.”
Biblical Gifts
THE FIVE MINISTRY GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SON
This passage makes it clear that after His ascension into heaven (Acts 1:9) to be enthroned at the right hand of the Father (Eph 1:20- 23), Jesus then distributed these five ministry gifts to His Church.
Each of these ministry gifts is by itself only a partial expression of Christ’s own complete ministry. No single person could contain the entire ministry of Jesus.
These five ministry gifts are like the fingers on the human hand. When any of them is missing or they won’t work together, our abilities are weakened.
Three important truths emerge from this passage of Scripture:
The Five Ministry Gifts – Are Given By Christ Alone
They cannot be given by human appointment or ability. They cannot be given or taken by any person who simply wants to have that particular gift. These five ministry gifts are bestowed by Christ alone. It is He Who gives and empowers these gifts.
The Five Ministry Gifts – Function By Grace
These gifts will function properly only under the guidance, control, and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that applies God’s grace to our lives and ministries. The Greek root-word for “gift” is the same as grace -“charis“. The gifts of God cannot operate fully or properly without the Spirit of God leading and guiding us as we seek to serve the Church.
The Five Ministry Gifts – Require A Servant’s Heart
These five gifts – apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher are not titles. They were never used as titles in the New Testament. They were actually used as job descriptions to portray a functional service role in the Church.
Remember Christ’s own words when He described His ministry: “Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many“ (Matt 20:28).
Let us not be anxious to grab for titles or lofty positions. Instead, let us be of the same mind and heart that is in Christ (Phil 2: 1-8), and desire to serve others.
The Purpose Of The Five Ministry Gifts
We know that all members of the Body of Christ have their part to play in edifying the Church and glorifying Christ.
However, the ascended Christ has given the five ministry gifts for a specific purpose described for us in Ephesians 4:12: ”For tile equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ.”
The word “equipping” in this verse is translated from the Greek word katartismos, which means “to make complete”. It comes from the root-word katartizo, meaning “to repair or adjust; to make fit, mend; to perfect, prepare, restore”.
In other words, one could describe the purpose of the five ministry Gifts this way: “To prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up“.
Christ gives ministry gifts to certain believers NOT to enable them to do the work of the ministry by themselves – but to enable them to prepare other believers to do the work of the ministry also.
Biblical Gifts
THE FIVE MINISTRY GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SON
Even the Apostle Paul did not try to do the work of ministry by himself ; in fact, he devoted three whole epistles to preparing Timothy and Titus to a) do the work of the ministry and b) prepare still others to carry on the work of the ministry (see 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus).·
Certain believers have the specific ministry gifts of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher; other believers do not. But ALL believers have a ministry to perform in building up the Church and edifying the people of God.
All believers should minister in all three of these areas: upward, inward, and outward.
1) Upward: Ministry to the Lord –Worship (Psalm 150:6; Eph 5:19).
2) Inward: Ministry to the Body Nurture (Eph 4:16;.Acts 2:42-46).
3) Outward: Ministry to the World –Witness (Matt 5:13-16; Phil 2:15).
May each of us dedicate ourselves to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, living daily to fulfill all of the ministry appointed for us.
THE FIVE MINISTRY GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SON
What The Church Needs
The Body of Christ, the Church, is a divinely ordained organism rather than a man-made organization. It is a living, functioning, growing spiritual Body.
Because this is true, the Church needs divinely-given abilities, imparted to divinely-appointed servant-leaders.
We can try to fulfill the needs of the Church using human strength and wisdom – but we will fail! We can try to replace Holy Spirit anointing with our own knowledge, skills or cleverness. But these things will never be enough to establish God’s will and effectively minister His life to His people.
Our Lord is not opposed to education or schooling (Prov 4:7); He just knows that academic achievement by itself is insufficient (Zech 4:6; 1Cor 8:1).
The pattern seen in the New Testament is that God can powerfully use any man or woman, whether they are educated (i.e., Paul, Apollos, Luke, Matthew) or not (i.e., Peter, James, John). If their hearts and lives are fully surrendered to Him and to the power of His Spirit, He will use them!
The Church in the first century and the Church today need the same thing. They both need supernaturally chosen, divinely equipped, servant-hearted leaders!
A. Jesus Embodies The Ministry Gifts
Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church, has provided all that the Church needs. This servant-leader gifting that Christ has given to His Church is based upon the five ministry gifts. They are listed in Ephesians 4:11: “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers.”
These five ministry gifts are supernaturally given by the Lord to certain persons. These gifts reflect the person and ministry of Christ Himself.
Consider that:
Jesus is the APOSTLE
“Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus” (Heb 3:1).
Jesus is the PROPHET
“Concerning Jesus of Nazareth …a Prophet mighty in deed and word” (Luke 24:19).
Jesus is the EVANGELIST
“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth [crucified], will draw all peoples to Myself” (John 12:32).
Jesus is the PASTOR
“I am the good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep” (John 10:11).
Jesus is the TEACHER
“Rabbi, I’ve know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with Him” (John 3:2).
Jesus is the fullness and embodiment of all these ministry gifts.
B. Five Ministry Gifts Given To The Church (Eph 4:7-11)
“But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: ‘When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men’. (Now this, ‘He ascended’ –what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One Who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, arid some pastors and teachers.”
Biblical Gifts
THE FIVE MINISTRY GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SON
This passage makes it clear that after His ascension into heaven (Acts 1:9) to be enthroned at the right hand of the Father (Eph 1:20- 23), Jesus then distributed these five ministry gifts to His Church.
Each of these ministry gifts is by itself only a partial expression of Christ’s own complete ministry. No single person could contain the entire ministry of Jesus.
These five ministry gifts are like the fingers on the human hand. When any of them is missing or they won’t work together, our abilities are weakened.
Three important truths emerge from this passage of Scripture:
The Five Ministry Gifts – Are Given By Christ Alone
They cannot be given by human appointment or ability. They cannot be given or taken by any person who simply wants to have that particular gift. These five ministry gifts are bestowed by Christ alone. It is He Who gives and empowers these gifts.
The Five Ministry Gifts – Function By Grace
These gifts will function properly only under the guidance, control, and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that applies God’s grace to our lives and ministries. The Greek root-word for “gift” is the same as grace -“charis“. The gifts of God cannot operate fully or properly without the Spirit of God leading and guiding us as we seek to serve the Church.
The Five Ministry Gifts – Require A Servant’s Heart
These five gifts – apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher are not titles. They were never used as titles in the New Testament. They were actually used as job descriptions to portray a functional service role in the Church.
Remember Christ’s own words when He described His ministry: “Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many“ (Matt 20:28).
Let us not be anxious to grab for titles or lofty positions. Instead, let us be of the same mind and heart that is in Christ (Phil 2: 1-8), and desire to serve others.
The Purpose Of The Five Ministry Gifts
We know that all members of the Body of Christ have their part to play in edifying the Church and glorifying Christ.
However, the ascended Christ has given the five ministry gifts for a specific purpose described for us in Ephesians 4:12: ”For tile equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ.”
The word “equipping” in this verse is translated from the Greek word katartismos, which means “to make complete”. It comes from the root-word katartizo, meaning “to repair or adjust; to make fit, mend; to perfect, prepare, restore”.
In other words, one could describe the purpose of the five ministry Gifts this way: “To prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up“.
Christ gives ministry gifts to certain believers NOT to enable them to do the work of the ministry by themselves – but to enable them to prepare other believers to do the work of the ministry also.
Biblical Gifts
THE FIVE MINISTRY GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SON
Even the Apostle Paul did not try to do the work of ministry by himself ; in fact, he devoted three whole epistles to preparing Timothy and Titus to a) do the work of the ministry and b) prepare still others to carry on the work of the ministry (see 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus).·
Certain believers have the specific ministry gifts of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher; other believers do not. But ALL believers have a ministry to perform in building up the Church and edifying the people of God.
All believers should minister in all three of these areas: upward, inward, and outward.
1) Upward: Ministry to the Lord –Worship (Psalm 150:6; Eph 5:19).
2) Inward: Ministry to the Body Nurture (Eph 4:16;.Acts 2:42-46).
3) Outward: Ministry to the World –Witness (Matt 5:13-16; Phil 2:15).
May each of us dedicate ourselves to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit, living daily to fulfill all of the ministry appointed for us.
The 9 Gifts of the Holy Spirit
1. The Word of Knowledge:
Bible Verses About Knowledge (KJV)
Proverbs 18:15 - The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 2:10 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Hosea 4:6-7 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Proverbs 24:5 - A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs 8:10 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 15:14 - The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs 3:1-35 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 12:1 - Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
Proverbs 2:1-22 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Psalms 119:66 - Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
1 Corinthians 12:8 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
Proverbs 1:5 - A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
2. The Word of Wisdom:
Bible Verses About Wisdom (KJV)
James 1:5 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Proverbs 3:13-18 - Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding. Ephesians 5:15-17 - See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Proverbs 12:15 - The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
Proverbs 10:23 - [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs 18:15 - The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs 19:20 - Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 17:27-28 - He that hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Colossians 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Luke 21:15 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
3. The Gift of Prophecy:
Bible Verses about Prophecy
King James Version (KJV)
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.\\tAnd though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
KJV |2 Peter 1:21
For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.\\tFor the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
KJV |1 John 4:1
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\\tBeloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
KJV |Amos 3:7
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.\\tSurely the Lord God will do nothing,
but he revealeth his secret
unto his servants the prophets.
KJV |2 Kings 20:5 | NIV
Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.’\\tTurn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
KJV |Matthew 7:15
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.\\tBeware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
KJV |Matthew 7:12
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.\\tTherefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
KJV |Ephesians 2:19-20
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.\\tNow therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.
KJV |1 John 4:4
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.\\tYe are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
KJV |Romans 3:21-22
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.\\tBut now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference.
4. The Gift of Faith:
Bible Verses regarding Faith (KJV)
Matthew 21:22 - And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Romans 10:17 - So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Mark 11:22-24 - And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
James 2:19 - Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Luke 1:37 - For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Hebrews 11:1 - 13:25 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
1 Corinthians 2:5 - That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
2 Corinthians 5:7 - (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
James 2:14-26 - What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? James 2:24 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
James 1:5-8 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
5. The Gifts of Healings:
Bible Verses About Gift Of Healing (KJV)
1 Corinthians 12:9 - To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
James 5:14-15 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
1 Corinthians 12:28 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
6. The Working of Miracles:
Bible Verses About Miracles (KJV)
Acts 4:30 - By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
John 4:48 - Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
Acts 3:16 - And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Matthew 17:20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
John 14:12 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Acts 19:11 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
John 11:4 - When Jesus heard [that], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 - [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
7. The Discerning of Spirits:
Bible Verses About Discerning Of Spirits (KJV)
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1-21 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 John 4:1-6 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Mark 16:17-18 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 12:10 - To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:11 - But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 12:7-10 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
1 John 1:1 - That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
8. Different Kinds of Tongues:
Bible Verses About Speaking In Tongues (KJV)
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:27-28 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 2:4 - And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 14:23 - If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
1 Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Acts 2:1-47 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 19:6 - And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
1 Corinthians 14:19 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians 14:13 - Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.
Mark 16:15-18 - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Acts 2:6 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
1 Corinthians 14:27 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 19:1-41 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 14:22 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians 14:39 - Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Acts 10:46 - For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9. The Interpretation of Tongues:
Bible Verses About Speaking In Tongues (KJV)
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:27-28 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 2:4 - And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 14:23 - If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
1 Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Acts 2:1-47 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 19:6 - And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
1 Corinthians 14:19 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians 14:13 - Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.
Mark 16:15-18 - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Acts 2:6 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
1 Corinthians 14:27 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 19:1-41 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 14:22 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians 14:39 - Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Acts 10:46 - For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; Bible Verses About Gifts Of The Spirit (KJV)
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Peter 4:10 - As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Romans 12:6-8 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; 1 Timothy 4:14-16 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. Romans 12:6 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;
Romans 8:26-27 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Acts 2:1-47 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians 14:39 - Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:27-30 - Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Isaiah 11:1-3 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
1 Corinthians 12:1 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Ephesians 4:11 - And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
1 Corinthians 12:7 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Corinthians 12:11 - But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1. The Word of Knowledge:
Bible Verses About Knowledge (KJV)
Proverbs 18:15 - The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 2:10 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Hosea 4:6-7 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Proverbs 24:5 - A wise man [is] strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs 8:10 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 15:14 - The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs 3:1-35 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 12:1 - Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
Proverbs 2:1-22 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Psalms 119:66 - Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
1 Corinthians 12:8 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
Proverbs 1:5 - A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
2. The Word of Wisdom:
Bible Verses About Wisdom (KJV)
James 1:5 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Proverbs 3:13-18 - Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding. Ephesians 5:15-17 - See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Proverbs 12:15 - The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
Proverbs 10:23 - [It is] as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs 18:15 - The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs 19:20 - Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 17:27-28 - He that hath knowledge spareth his words: [and] a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Colossians 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Luke 21:15 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
3. The Gift of Prophecy:
Bible Verses about Prophecy
King James Version (KJV)
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.\\tAnd though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
KJV |2 Peter 1:21
For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.\\tFor the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
KJV |1 John 4:1
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\\tBeloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
KJV |Amos 3:7
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.\\tSurely the Lord God will do nothing,
but he revealeth his secret
unto his servants the prophets.
KJV |2 Kings 20:5 | NIV
Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.’\\tTurn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.
KJV |Matthew 7:15
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.\\tBeware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
KJV |Matthew 7:12
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.\\tTherefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
KJV |Ephesians 2:19-20
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.\\tNow therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.
KJV |1 John 4:4
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.\\tYe are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
KJV |Romans 3:21-22
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.\\tBut now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference.
4. The Gift of Faith:
Bible Verses regarding Faith (KJV)
Matthew 21:22 - And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Romans 10:17 - So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Mark 11:22-24 - And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
James 2:19 - Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Luke 1:37 - For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Hebrews 11:1 - 13:25 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
1 Corinthians 2:5 - That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
2 Corinthians 5:7 - (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
James 2:14-26 - What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? James 2:24 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
James 1:5-8 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
5. The Gifts of Healings:
Bible Verses About Gift Of Healing (KJV)
1 Corinthians 12:9 - To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
James 5:14-15 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
1 Corinthians 12:28 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
6. The Working of Miracles:
Bible Verses About Miracles (KJV)
Acts 4:30 - By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
John 4:48 - Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
Acts 3:16 - And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Matthew 17:20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
John 14:12 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Acts 19:11 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
John 11:4 - When Jesus heard [that], he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 - [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
7. The Discerning of Spirits:
Bible Verses About Discerning Of Spirits (KJV)
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1-21 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 John 4:1-6 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Mark 16:17-18 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 12:10 - To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:11 - But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 12:7-10 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
1 John 1:1 - That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
8. Different Kinds of Tongues:
Bible Verses About Speaking In Tongues (KJV)
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:27-28 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 2:4 - And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 14:23 - If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
1 Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Acts 2:1-47 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 19:6 - And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
1 Corinthians 14:19 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians 14:13 - Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.
Mark 16:15-18 - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Acts 2:6 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
1 Corinthians 14:27 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 19:1-41 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 14:22 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians 14:39 - Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Acts 10:46 - For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9. The Interpretation of Tongues:
Bible Verses About Speaking In Tongues (KJV)
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:27-28 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 2:4 - And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 14:23 - If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
Mark 16:17 - And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
1 Corinthians 14:2 - For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Acts 2:1-47 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 19:6 - And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
1 Corinthians 14:19 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1 Corinthians 14:13 - Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.
Mark 16:15-18 - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Acts 2:6 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
1 Corinthians 14:27 - If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.
Acts 19:1-41 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 14:22 - Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians 14:39 - Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Acts 10:46 - For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; Bible Verses About Gifts Of The Spirit (KJV)
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Peter 4:10 - As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Romans 12:6-8 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; 1 Timothy 4:14-16 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. Romans 12:6 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;
Romans 8:26-27 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Acts 2:1-47 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians 14:39 - Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:27-30 - Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Isaiah 11:1-3 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
1 Corinthians 12:1 - Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Ephesians 4:11 - And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
1 Corinthians 12:7 - But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Corinthians 12:11 - But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
THE MANIFESTATION GIFTS: THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
Paul told the church at Corinth, “Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant” (l Cor 12:1). God certainly does not want believers today to be ignorant either. There are many charismatic gifts mentioned in the Bible (Rom 12:3-8; l Cor 12:8-10, 28-30; Eph 4:11). For the purpose of this brief study, we will limit ourselves to a consideration of the nine manifestations listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. To simplify our study of them, we will classify them in three categories:
I. GIFTS OF SPEECH
Tongues
Interpretation of Tongues
Prophecy
II. GIFTS OF REVELATION
4. A word of Wisdom
5. A word of Knowledge
6. Discerning of Spirits
III. GIFTS OF ABILITY
Gift of Faith
Gifts of Healings
Working of Miracles
Who May The Spirit Use In The Operation Of Such Gifts?
Any member of the Body may be used (1 Cor 12:7, 11; 14:26, 31).
We should not be ignorant concerning the operation of the gifts (1 Cor 12:1).
We must desire spiritual gifts (1 Cor 14:1).
We should be motivated by genuine love for the Body “(1 Cor 13) and by a pure desire to edify the Body (1 Cor 14:12).
We should seek to excel in the operation of the gifts for the purpose of edifying the Church (1 Cor 14:12).
THE GIFTS OF SPEECH
THE GIFT OF TONGUES (l Cor 12:10)
The Gift of Tongues has two functions:
a. To edify the person using it (“devotional tongues”);
b. For the edifying of the whole church, and not merely the individual believer (when used in conjunction with the Gift of Interpretation of Tongues).
Use of the Gift of Tongues should be:
a. motivated by love (lCor 13:1);
accompanied by interpretation (lCor 14:5,13,28); confined to three
utterances in any one gathering (lCor 14:27).
Seek to be yielded to the Spirit. Develop a sensitivity to what the Spirit is seeking to do or say in any particular service. When the Holy Spirit wants to bring a tongue -utterance through you, there will generally be an inner awareness of this for some time before you actually speak. This is often a gentle stirring in your spirit, a growing excitement and anticipation. Wait quietly for the right moment to speak. The Holy Spirit will prompt you clearly at that time. He will not interrupt what is already happening in the service. He will never cause confusion, for He is not the author of confusion (1 Cor 14:33). Speak in a normal but clearly audible voice. You do not have to shout or bellow. Quietly flow with the Spirit, Who is giving you utterance. When the utterance is complete, all must wait upon God for the interpretation. Of ten some other believer will be given the interpretation; but when this does not happen, then the one who has spoken in tongues must pray quietly that he may also be given the interpretation (1Cor 14:13).
THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES (l Cor 12:10)
This is the companion gift to that of Tongues, and is always used in conjunction with that gift. It is the supernatural enabling, by the Holy Spirit, to interpret an utterance in tongues into the natural language of the congregation. Interpretation of Tongues is NOT the gift of translation. The interpreter usually does NOT understand the tongue used in the utterance just given. By this gift of the Spirit, the one given the interpretation perceives what the Spirit was saying through the tongue, and is able to simply say it to the congregation, so they may receive it and be edified by it.
Who May Use This Gift?
The Interpretation of Tongues is given “as the Spirit wills” (1 Cor 12:11). Any Spirit-filled believer may be chosen and anointed by the Spirit to interpret a tongue. Initially you may only have the first sentence of the interpretation and a brief idea of what is to follow, when you first begin to speak. Like all other gifts of the Spirit, this one operates by faith too. As you commence to give forth what the Spirit is giving you, take care NOT to speak “beyond the proportion of your faith ” (Rom 12:6). Strenuously avoid letting any personal thoughts, feelings or ideas creep into the interpretation.
When the interpretation is complete, and you sense that the Spirit has finished all He wishes to say, then stop! Do not begin to tell the people what you think the interpretation means. Having delivered the interpretation, remain quiet while the utterance is judged by those who sit by. If there are any believers present who are regularly used in the vocal gifts, they should judge whether the words are truly from God. The standard by which one may judge is similar to that which we would use for judging prophecy.
THE GIFT OF PROPHECY (1 Cor 12:10) Simply translated, the words prophesy means “to utter inspired words”. According to 1 Corinthians 14:31, all believers may exercise this gift at some time, as the Spirit wills. Everyone may prophesy, one by one, and not more than three in any one gathering (1 Cor 14:29-33).
The purpose of such prophetic utterance according to 1 Corinthians 14:3 is to:
Edify the Church: This means to build up and strengthen the believers.
Exhort them: To stir up the believers; to confront and challenge them.
Comfort them: To speak encouragingly, words of comfort.
Often times a prophecy may include all three of these elements.
THREE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT PROPHECY
It should not be confused with preaching. Many today insist that the Gift of Prophecy is the ability to preach well. However, preaching and teaching are usually the result of prayerful meditation on the Word of God, and careful preparation. In contrast, the Gif t of Prophecy is not the result of careful study. It is a spontaneous speaking-forth by the Spirit (even though the timing of its deliverance is under the control of the prophet). The Gift of Prophecy is NOT for foretelling the future. This gift is for forth telling rather than foretelling. Its purpose is for Edification, Exhortation and Comfort -not for seeking to predict future events. Whenever there is an element of prediction within a prophecy, it is usually because there is another gift (Word of Knowledge or Wisdom) working along with it.
This Gift is NOT for personal guidance. If we are in need of personal guidance, we should ask Jesus Himself for it (James 1:5). We may also seek such guidance in the pages of God’s Word, the Bible. If a prophetic utterance comes to us with instructions for the future, it should only be to confirm what God has already shown us personally.
SCRIPTURAL TEACHING ON THE GIFT OF PROPHECY
1. It is for speaking supernaturally to men (1Cor 14 :3) – thus conveying the mind of the Lord to the Church.
Prophecy requires no interpretation.
Prophecy convinces the unlearned or unbelieving (lCor 14:24, 25).
Prophecy functions so that believers may learn (1Cor 14:31).
Everyone should desire and covet this gift (I Cor 14:1, 39). The person operating the gift is responsible for its use or abuse (1Cor 14:32). Prophecy is NOT an uncontrolled utterance. Nor is the prophet under any kind of trance or mind control. He is neither doing anything nor saying any thing against his will. Because the humxan element is fallible, prophecy must be judged (1Cor 14:29).
How Shall We Judge A Prophecy?
A genuine, Spirit-filled prophecy:
a. Will never contradict the written Word of God. Therefore every prophetic utterance should be “tested” by the Word of God. God would never tell you by prophecy to do anything which His Word forbids.
b. It will always exalt Jesus Christ, and never denigrate Him.
c. It will edify, exhort and comfort the believers. It should never leave them confused, distressed, uncertain.
d. It should “witness” with the majority of believers present -especially the more mature ones who are themselves frequently used in operation of vocal gifts.
e. It will not break the spirit of the meeting, though it may change the course of it.
f. If there is a predictive aspect, it will come to pass.
g. The “fruit test” (Matt 7:16). Jesus declared, “You shall know them by their fruit”. We should reject any so-called prophecy coming from one whose life and practice are a reproach to the cause of Christ.
THE GIFTS OF REVELATION
A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE (l Cor 12:8)
A Word of Knowledge is a fragment or small item of God’s knowledge, given to a person by the Holy Spirit.
This information was previously unknown to the person, and the knowledge could not be gained by any natural means. It is supernaturally imparted.
Scriptural Examples
A. In the Ministry of Jesus: John 1:47-50; 4:16-19, 39-42.
B. In the Early Church: Acts 9:10-20.
C. Example from the Old Testament: 2 Sam 12:1-14.
A Word of Knowledge cannot be gained by intellectual learning. It also cannot be gained by studying books or pursuing an academic course of study in a college or university. Nor is it the ability to study or understand or interpret the Bible. The Word Of Knowledge Used In Scripture
A. To uncover sin (2 Sam 12:1- 10; Acts 5:1-11).
B. To bring people to God (John 1:47-50; 4:16-19, 39-42).
C. To give guidance and direction (Acts 9:11).
D. To minister encouragement in periods of despondency (l Kings 19:9-18).
E. To impart knowledge of future events (John 11:11-14).
F. To reveal hid den things (1 Sam 10:22).
The Operation Of This Gift:
A. It is supernatural in character- not obtained by logic, deduction, reasoning, or the natural senses.
B. It operates by faith – the person receiving the revelation does so by faith.
C. The revelation is received in one’s spirit -not in the intellect or the emotions.
D. It is not a vocal gift (Acts 9:10, 11). It is received quietly and inaudibly within the person’s spirit.
E. It may become vocal when shared with others (John 4:18).
F. Any Spirit-filled Christian who is willing to listen to God may experience the function of this gift.
G. It is a valuable asset in the ministry of counseling.
H. Obedient action and response is essential to the continuing function of this manifestation in one’s ministry.
A WORD OF WISDOM (1 Cor 12:8) This gift is of great importance. It enables us to speak and act with divine wisdom, and thus ensures the correct use and application of other gifts. The Word of Wisdom is a fragment of divine wisdom supernaturally imparted by the Holy Spirit. It supplies one with the immediate wisdom to know what to say or do in a given situation. God frequently gives this gift together with the Word of Knowledge, so that believers can know how to apply that Word of Knowledge correctly. God revealed to Ananias the whereabouts and condition of Saul (Acts 9) through a Word of Knowledge. He also showed him, by the Word of Wisdom, what he should do in this difficult situation. It is a word (logos) of wisdom, and not the gift of wisdom mentioned in James 1:5.
The Word Of Wisdom is NOT:
natural wisdom.
wisdom gained from academic achievement.
wisdom gained from experience.
the wisdom to understand the Bible.
The Word of Wisdom IS:
supernatural in character.
given as the Holy Spirit wills (l Cor 12:11).
given for a specific need or situation.
Some Biblical Examples:
Luke 4:1-13; Luke 20:22-26; John 8:3-11; Acts 6:1-5; Acts 15:28; Acts 27:23-24. The Word of Wisdom is promised to all Christ’s disciples in a time of need (Luke 21:14,15).
DISCERNING OF SPIRITS (I Cor 12:10) Discerning of Spirits is the third of the revelation gifts; the Word of Wisdom and the Word of Knowledge are the other two.
It is a divine gift imparted by the Holy Spirit so we can penetrate the spiritual realm to distinguish between the spirit of Satan (evil spirits), the Spirit of God, and the human spirit.
A. The Function Of The Gift
The gift of Discerning of Spirits gives one a supernatural understanding of the nature and activity of spirits. Sometimes it is easy to confuse the works of the spirit of Satan with those of the Spirit of God. Satan always tries to counterfeit the works of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor 11:14). Satan is known as the deceiver, the father of lies, and the serpent. All these titles signify the subtle, crafty deceptiveness that he uses to bring about evil whenever he can. In the account of the girl with the spirit of divination in Acts 16, Paul challenged the spirit that might easily have deceived other servants of God. The girl gave a perfectly true statement when she said, “These men are servants of the most high God who show to you the way of salvation,” but the spirit speaking was an evil spirit.
B. The Operation And Need For The Gift Today
The gift of Discerning of Spirits is absolutely essential if the Church is going to accomplish her full mission and destroy the works of the devil. There are as many demons in the world today as there were when Jesus walked the earth and in the days of the early Church. Their purpose is as avowedly evil. This supernatural gift is especially necessary for missionaries and workers in heathen lands where Spiritism, Satanism and occultism abound.
C. How The Gift Of Discerning Of Spirits Operates
The first and most obvious function of this gift is to reveal the presence of evil spirits in the life of people or churches. However, it also functions to evaluate the source of a prophetic message, a particular teaching, or some supernatural manifestation. The person functioning with this gift will be able to tell whether the source of the message or act is demonic, divine, or merely human.
D. Discerning Of Spirits Must Work With Other Gifts
Although the gift of Discerning of Spirits is essential for effective deliverance, it is not sufficient by itself. It must work in concert with the gifts of Faith and Working of Miracles. Those who function with those gifts usually have the greatest success in casting out demons.
THE GIFTS OF ABILITY
THE GIFT OF FAITH (l Cor 12:9)
Since faith deals with the future and the unseen -things not physically experienced –the Gift of Faith is the special endowment given lo someone called upon to exercise an extraordinary capacity of trust. God supernaturally empties him of any doubt, and fills him with special faith. This enables him to accomplish God’s purpose despite every contrary and contradictory circumstance of life. General faith grows from the original seed of saving faith, which God has planted in our hearts (see Romans 1:17). The degree of general faith varies with stage of development of the believer (“little faith,” “great faith,”etc.). General faith grows as a result of feeding on the Word, being exercised through the circumstances of life ,and the like.
However, the Gift of Faith has superior function to even the highest degree of general faith. Some translators refer to the Gift of Faith as “special faith”. This indicates a faith bestowed by the Holy Spirit to meet our need in special and extenuating circumstances. This suggests further that the Gift of Faith is not permanently resident in any believer, but rather that each manifestation is a separate Gift of Faith. An episode in Elijah’s life illustrates this, when he declares to King Ahab that there will be no rain until he speaks the word and then it will rain again at his word (l Kings 17:1). His Gift of Faith produced the miraculous fulfillment of that prophecy. In contrast, this extraordinary faith was lacking when Elijah sat under: the juniper tree, fearful, discouraged and wanting to die, because it was not needed a t that time (1 Kings 19:4). He had not lost his faith in God or His Word. God wants you to know that you can go forth confidently, knowing that when special demands are made upon you, He will supernaturally give you special faith to enable you to fulfill His purposes.
How Does The Gift Of Faith Work?
Daniel’s protect ion from the lions (a passive instance of the Gift of Faith) seems to contrast with Samson’s slaying the lion, which is an example of man’s active involvement in the manifestation of the power of God (this would be an example of the Working of Miracles). This impression that the Gift of Faith functions passively is because it often works in cooperation with more dramatic gifts (e.g. the Working of Miracles, the Gifts of Healings, etc.). The Gift of Faith also operates through the speaking of word s of faith – “I believed , therefore have I spoken” (2 Cor 4: 13) – whereby those words a man of God speaks when inspired by the Spirit are backed by God as His own word. This gift can function in many ways (e.g., for blessing, for cursing, for creating, for destroying, etc.).
There are some notable examples of the Gift of Faith working through the spoken word in Joshua 10:12-14; 1 Kings 17:1; and Acts 13:11.
The Scriptures teach the principle of the word of faith:
Mark 11:22, 23: “he shall have whatever he says” in relation to the injunction, “have faith in God”.
Important Note: We CANNOT, by speaking a word, cause God to do something for us UNLESS:
a) it is God’s will for it to happen, and
b) God has enabled us, through the Gift of Faith, to speak a word of faith in order to make it happen.
If it is not God’s will for it to happen -no matter how we may feel -it will not happen. “Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass when the Lord has not commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that woe and well-being proceed?” (Lam 3:37, 38).
GIFTS OF HEALINGS (1 Cor 12:9)
In 1 Corinthians 12:9,28,30, the original reading is charismata iamaton. Both words are plural, making the correct translation of this phrase, “gifts of healings“.
Gifts of healings operate supernaturally to heal diseases and infirmities without natural means of any sort. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon a person’s body, dissolving their disease, driving out their pains to heal them. The use of the plural nouns here emphasizes the abundance of God’s healing gifts to afflicted mankind. It may also emphasize that Jesus’ healing will deliver from every sickness, weakness, plague, deformity and affliction. It also implies that there are a great variety of manifestations of this gift (l Cor 12:4-7). The exercise of the Gifts of Healings does not give the gifted an ability to heal all the sick all the time. Some have misunderstood this, and have asked why we do not go into hospitals and the like and raise up all that are sick. Even Jesus did not do this: He only went to what may correspond to a modem hospital once -when He went to the pool of Bethesda, where there were multitudes of sick people. Even then, He chose only one from all of them and healed him. Many times we read of great crowds of sick folk who came to Jesus, and we are told He “healed them all”. An important principle of divine healing is that the person must come to Jesus as an exercise of faith and cooperation.
The Purpose Of Gifts Of Healings
A. To deliver the sick and suffering and to destroy the works of the devil in human bodies (1 John 3:8, Acts 10:38, and Luke 13:16).
B. To prove Christ’s claim to be the Son of God (John 10:36-38).
C. To confirm the Word (Mark 16:17-20).
D. To attract people to the sound of the Gospel (Matt 4:23, 25).
E. To bring glory to God (Mark 2:12; Luke 13:13; 18:43; John 9:2, 3). Like all other gilts, the Gifts of Healings not only have to be given, but also must be received. Just as there is a principle of faith in regard to how to minister these gifts, there is also a principle that deals with how to receive them.
Hezekiah had difficulty receiving the gift of healing which God sent him. His faith had to be built up in a special way by the miracle recorded in 2 Kings 20:8-11.
Healing often requires a double act of faith: faith to receive and faith to administer the gift of healing. God’s desire to heal is very abundant. Nevertheless, every sick person does not get healed immediately when they are prayed for; and sometimes a person doesn’t get healed at all in this lifetime. Sometimes God communicates gifts of healings through the normal healing channels; at other times through extraordinary means, according to His will (e.g., Peter’s shadow, Acts 5:15, 16).
WORKING OF MIRACLES (l Cor 12:10)
The gift of the Working of Miracles comes when God endues us with power by the Holy Spirit to do something completely outside of the range of human ability. He gives it to us at a specific time for a special purpose.
All the gifts of the Spirit are miraculous, but the use of the word “miracle” in this instance refers to acts of power.
MIRACLES GIVE UNDENIABLE PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION
If Jesus were not alive, His name would have no power to heal the sick and work miracles (Acts 4:33). Peter convinced the unbelieving Jews of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and their need of repentance on the strength of the fact that Jesus’ name still had power to heal the sick and work miracles.
The Working of Miracles:
A. Gave boldness to the believers to preach Christ (Acts 4:29, 30).
B. Made believers hungry to have more of God (Acts 4:31, 32).
C. Convinced and convicted men of the undeniable power of God (Acts 4:13-16; 5:28-33).
D. Five thousand were converted in one day through observing a miracle of healing and hearing the preaching of God’s Word (Acts 4:4; see also 5:12-14). ·
E. All the people glorified God for what was done (Acts 4:21).
F. It caused the Gospel to spread quickly (Acts 5:14-16). Before Jesus started to work miracles, no crowds gathered to Him. He must have preached of ten in the synagogue, for Luke 4 says it was His custom. But when the miracles in Luke 4:33-37 took place, “the report about Him went out into every place in tile surrounding region“. From then on, the multitudes pressed in upon Him to hear His words and to see His miracles. “A great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased” (John 6:2). Everywhere the disciples preached, healed the sick, cast out demons and worked miracles, multitudes turned to Christ. You can read about some of these accounts in Acts 5:12-16; 8:6; 9:34,35; 9:40-42; 14:8-18; 28:8,9.
The Working of Miracles is the enabling of the Holy Spirit, giving the believer the ability to work a miracle, in contrast to God working miracles in the life of a believer. Thus many who have never received the gift of working miracles have often experienced astounding miracles that God has wrought on their behalf.
Some Examples:
A. Miracles of deliverance, such as Peter’s in Acts 5:17-20 and again in Acts 12:1-10. Also Paul and Silas in Acts 16:15-30.
B. Miracles of transportation (Acts 8:39). “The Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more.”
These, and many other instances, are miracles performed by God in the lives of believers, sometimes even without the cooperation of the believer. These are not, therefore, instances where the gift of Working of Miracles was operating. In contrast now are three where this gift was in operation:
Acts 19:11: “And God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul.”
Acts 9:36-40: Peter raised Dorcas from the dead.
Acts 20:9-12: Paul restored Eutychus to life.
Practical Operation Of The Gift
The operation of the Gift of Miracles requires:
A. The anointing of the Holy Spirit to create special confidence and authority.
B. A spoken word of faith and authority. Elijah said that the God who answered by fire should be Israel’s Lord. The fire that came down was an example of the Working of Miracles.
C. A bold act of faith, stepping out in obedience to the Spirit’s leading. 1 Corinthians 12:31 a:
“Best” Gifts?
At the very end of the passage, Paul gives a key exhortation to approaching the gifts in a balanced and correct manner. The text reads: “But earnestly desire the best gifts.” The phrase used here seems to contradict Paul’s earlier statements about the gifts using the analogy of the body (vs. 12-27). In those verses, he forcefully states that no single part of the body is more important than any other part. As each part of the human body plays its part properly, the whole body functions quite well. The same is true of all the gifts. No one gift should be over-emphasized, over-used, or over-valued in a local church. Why, then, would Paul seem to imply that there were “best gifts” to be desired?
The Right Gift For The Right Time
A good way to interpret the sentence in 1 Corinthians 12:31 a is: “But covet earnestly the most best gift [fitted for] the right [appropriate) moment of ministry.”
In other words, our desire should not be to simply want God to give us a certain gift to use over and over. Rather, our earnest desire should be simply that God would use us, giving us the correct gift for that particular moment of ministry need! Prophetic words are wonderful and inspiring; but if someone needs a miraculous healing in his body, a prophecy will not help him! This is a simple illustration, yet it shows how we need multiple gifts for multiple needs. It also demonstrates that we should be open to HOWEVER God wants to use us. We should not try to predetermine in what way God will use us; only desire that He will use us.
Be Prepared!
This requires us to be spiritually prepared at all times, but especially in church meetings. It also means that we must be yielded and submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit and willing to step out in bold faith as He guides us. If that is your heart, be prepared- through prayer and the study of the Bible -for God will use you!
Paul told the church at Corinth, “Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant” (l Cor 12:1). God certainly does not want believers today to be ignorant either. There are many charismatic gifts mentioned in the Bible (Rom 12:3-8; l Cor 12:8-10, 28-30; Eph 4:11). For the purpose of this brief study, we will limit ourselves to a consideration of the nine manifestations listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10. To simplify our study of them, we will classify them in three categories:
I. GIFTS OF SPEECH
Tongues
Interpretation of Tongues
Prophecy
II. GIFTS OF REVELATION
4. A word of Wisdom
5. A word of Knowledge
6. Discerning of Spirits
III. GIFTS OF ABILITY
Gift of Faith
Gifts of Healings
Working of Miracles
Who May The Spirit Use In The Operation Of Such Gifts?
Any member of the Body may be used (1 Cor 12:7, 11; 14:26, 31).
We should not be ignorant concerning the operation of the gifts (1 Cor 12:1).
We must desire spiritual gifts (1 Cor 14:1).
We should be motivated by genuine love for the Body “(1 Cor 13) and by a pure desire to edify the Body (1 Cor 14:12).
We should seek to excel in the operation of the gifts for the purpose of edifying the Church (1 Cor 14:12).
THE GIFTS OF SPEECH
THE GIFT OF TONGUES (l Cor 12:10)
The Gift of Tongues has two functions:
a. To edify the person using it (“devotional tongues”);
b. For the edifying of the whole church, and not merely the individual believer (when used in conjunction with the Gift of Interpretation of Tongues).
Use of the Gift of Tongues should be:
a. motivated by love (lCor 13:1);
accompanied by interpretation (lCor 14:5,13,28); confined to three
utterances in any one gathering (lCor 14:27).
Seek to be yielded to the Spirit. Develop a sensitivity to what the Spirit is seeking to do or say in any particular service. When the Holy Spirit wants to bring a tongue -utterance through you, there will generally be an inner awareness of this for some time before you actually speak. This is often a gentle stirring in your spirit, a growing excitement and anticipation. Wait quietly for the right moment to speak. The Holy Spirit will prompt you clearly at that time. He will not interrupt what is already happening in the service. He will never cause confusion, for He is not the author of confusion (1 Cor 14:33). Speak in a normal but clearly audible voice. You do not have to shout or bellow. Quietly flow with the Spirit, Who is giving you utterance. When the utterance is complete, all must wait upon God for the interpretation. Of ten some other believer will be given the interpretation; but when this does not happen, then the one who has spoken in tongues must pray quietly that he may also be given the interpretation (1Cor 14:13).
THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES (l Cor 12:10)
This is the companion gift to that of Tongues, and is always used in conjunction with that gift. It is the supernatural enabling, by the Holy Spirit, to interpret an utterance in tongues into the natural language of the congregation. Interpretation of Tongues is NOT the gift of translation. The interpreter usually does NOT understand the tongue used in the utterance just given. By this gift of the Spirit, the one given the interpretation perceives what the Spirit was saying through the tongue, and is able to simply say it to the congregation, so they may receive it and be edified by it.
Who May Use This Gift?
The Interpretation of Tongues is given “as the Spirit wills” (1 Cor 12:11). Any Spirit-filled believer may be chosen and anointed by the Spirit to interpret a tongue. Initially you may only have the first sentence of the interpretation and a brief idea of what is to follow, when you first begin to speak. Like all other gifts of the Spirit, this one operates by faith too. As you commence to give forth what the Spirit is giving you, take care NOT to speak “beyond the proportion of your faith ” (Rom 12:6). Strenuously avoid letting any personal thoughts, feelings or ideas creep into the interpretation.
When the interpretation is complete, and you sense that the Spirit has finished all He wishes to say, then stop! Do not begin to tell the people what you think the interpretation means. Having delivered the interpretation, remain quiet while the utterance is judged by those who sit by. If there are any believers present who are regularly used in the vocal gifts, they should judge whether the words are truly from God. The standard by which one may judge is similar to that which we would use for judging prophecy.
THE GIFT OF PROPHECY (1 Cor 12:10) Simply translated, the words prophesy means “to utter inspired words”. According to 1 Corinthians 14:31, all believers may exercise this gift at some time, as the Spirit wills. Everyone may prophesy, one by one, and not more than three in any one gathering (1 Cor 14:29-33).
The purpose of such prophetic utterance according to 1 Corinthians 14:3 is to:
Edify the Church: This means to build up and strengthen the believers.
Exhort them: To stir up the believers; to confront and challenge them.
Comfort them: To speak encouragingly, words of comfort.
Often times a prophecy may include all three of these elements.
THREE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT PROPHECY
It should not be confused with preaching. Many today insist that the Gift of Prophecy is the ability to preach well. However, preaching and teaching are usually the result of prayerful meditation on the Word of God, and careful preparation. In contrast, the Gif t of Prophecy is not the result of careful study. It is a spontaneous speaking-forth by the Spirit (even though the timing of its deliverance is under the control of the prophet). The Gift of Prophecy is NOT for foretelling the future. This gift is for forth telling rather than foretelling. Its purpose is for Edification, Exhortation and Comfort -not for seeking to predict future events. Whenever there is an element of prediction within a prophecy, it is usually because there is another gift (Word of Knowledge or Wisdom) working along with it.
This Gift is NOT for personal guidance. If we are in need of personal guidance, we should ask Jesus Himself for it (James 1:5). We may also seek such guidance in the pages of God’s Word, the Bible. If a prophetic utterance comes to us with instructions for the future, it should only be to confirm what God has already shown us personally.
SCRIPTURAL TEACHING ON THE GIFT OF PROPHECY
1. It is for speaking supernaturally to men (1Cor 14 :3) – thus conveying the mind of the Lord to the Church.
Prophecy requires no interpretation.
Prophecy convinces the unlearned or unbelieving (lCor 14:24, 25).
Prophecy functions so that believers may learn (1Cor 14:31).
Everyone should desire and covet this gift (I Cor 14:1, 39). The person operating the gift is responsible for its use or abuse (1Cor 14:32). Prophecy is NOT an uncontrolled utterance. Nor is the prophet under any kind of trance or mind control. He is neither doing anything nor saying any thing against his will. Because the humxan element is fallible, prophecy must be judged (1Cor 14:29).
How Shall We Judge A Prophecy?
A genuine, Spirit-filled prophecy:
a. Will never contradict the written Word of God. Therefore every prophetic utterance should be “tested” by the Word of God. God would never tell you by prophecy to do anything which His Word forbids.
b. It will always exalt Jesus Christ, and never denigrate Him.
c. It will edify, exhort and comfort the believers. It should never leave them confused, distressed, uncertain.
d. It should “witness” with the majority of believers present -especially the more mature ones who are themselves frequently used in operation of vocal gifts.
e. It will not break the spirit of the meeting, though it may change the course of it.
f. If there is a predictive aspect, it will come to pass.
g. The “fruit test” (Matt 7:16). Jesus declared, “You shall know them by their fruit”. We should reject any so-called prophecy coming from one whose life and practice are a reproach to the cause of Christ.
THE GIFTS OF REVELATION
A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE (l Cor 12:8)
A Word of Knowledge is a fragment or small item of God’s knowledge, given to a person by the Holy Spirit.
This information was previously unknown to the person, and the knowledge could not be gained by any natural means. It is supernaturally imparted.
Scriptural Examples
A. In the Ministry of Jesus: John 1:47-50; 4:16-19, 39-42.
B. In the Early Church: Acts 9:10-20.
C. Example from the Old Testament: 2 Sam 12:1-14.
A Word of Knowledge cannot be gained by intellectual learning. It also cannot be gained by studying books or pursuing an academic course of study in a college or university. Nor is it the ability to study or understand or interpret the Bible. The Word Of Knowledge Used In Scripture
A. To uncover sin (2 Sam 12:1- 10; Acts 5:1-11).
B. To bring people to God (John 1:47-50; 4:16-19, 39-42).
C. To give guidance and direction (Acts 9:11).
D. To minister encouragement in periods of despondency (l Kings 19:9-18).
E. To impart knowledge of future events (John 11:11-14).
F. To reveal hid den things (1 Sam 10:22).
The Operation Of This Gift:
A. It is supernatural in character- not obtained by logic, deduction, reasoning, or the natural senses.
B. It operates by faith – the person receiving the revelation does so by faith.
C. The revelation is received in one’s spirit -not in the intellect or the emotions.
D. It is not a vocal gift (Acts 9:10, 11). It is received quietly and inaudibly within the person’s spirit.
E. It may become vocal when shared with others (John 4:18).
F. Any Spirit-filled Christian who is willing to listen to God may experience the function of this gift.
G. It is a valuable asset in the ministry of counseling.
H. Obedient action and response is essential to the continuing function of this manifestation in one’s ministry.
A WORD OF WISDOM (1 Cor 12:8) This gift is of great importance. It enables us to speak and act with divine wisdom, and thus ensures the correct use and application of other gifts. The Word of Wisdom is a fragment of divine wisdom supernaturally imparted by the Holy Spirit. It supplies one with the immediate wisdom to know what to say or do in a given situation. God frequently gives this gift together with the Word of Knowledge, so that believers can know how to apply that Word of Knowledge correctly. God revealed to Ananias the whereabouts and condition of Saul (Acts 9) through a Word of Knowledge. He also showed him, by the Word of Wisdom, what he should do in this difficult situation. It is a word (logos) of wisdom, and not the gift of wisdom mentioned in James 1:5.
The Word Of Wisdom is NOT:
natural wisdom.
wisdom gained from academic achievement.
wisdom gained from experience.
the wisdom to understand the Bible.
The Word of Wisdom IS:
supernatural in character.
given as the Holy Spirit wills (l Cor 12:11).
given for a specific need or situation.
Some Biblical Examples:
Luke 4:1-13; Luke 20:22-26; John 8:3-11; Acts 6:1-5; Acts 15:28; Acts 27:23-24. The Word of Wisdom is promised to all Christ’s disciples in a time of need (Luke 21:14,15).
DISCERNING OF SPIRITS (I Cor 12:10) Discerning of Spirits is the third of the revelation gifts; the Word of Wisdom and the Word of Knowledge are the other two.
It is a divine gift imparted by the Holy Spirit so we can penetrate the spiritual realm to distinguish between the spirit of Satan (evil spirits), the Spirit of God, and the human spirit.
A. The Function Of The Gift
The gift of Discerning of Spirits gives one a supernatural understanding of the nature and activity of spirits. Sometimes it is easy to confuse the works of the spirit of Satan with those of the Spirit of God. Satan always tries to counterfeit the works of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor 11:14). Satan is known as the deceiver, the father of lies, and the serpent. All these titles signify the subtle, crafty deceptiveness that he uses to bring about evil whenever he can. In the account of the girl with the spirit of divination in Acts 16, Paul challenged the spirit that might easily have deceived other servants of God. The girl gave a perfectly true statement when she said, “These men are servants of the most high God who show to you the way of salvation,” but the spirit speaking was an evil spirit.
B. The Operation And Need For The Gift Today
The gift of Discerning of Spirits is absolutely essential if the Church is going to accomplish her full mission and destroy the works of the devil. There are as many demons in the world today as there were when Jesus walked the earth and in the days of the early Church. Their purpose is as avowedly evil. This supernatural gift is especially necessary for missionaries and workers in heathen lands where Spiritism, Satanism and occultism abound.
C. How The Gift Of Discerning Of Spirits Operates
The first and most obvious function of this gift is to reveal the presence of evil spirits in the life of people or churches. However, it also functions to evaluate the source of a prophetic message, a particular teaching, or some supernatural manifestation. The person functioning with this gift will be able to tell whether the source of the message or act is demonic, divine, or merely human.
D. Discerning Of Spirits Must Work With Other Gifts
Although the gift of Discerning of Spirits is essential for effective deliverance, it is not sufficient by itself. It must work in concert with the gifts of Faith and Working of Miracles. Those who function with those gifts usually have the greatest success in casting out demons.
THE GIFTS OF ABILITY
THE GIFT OF FAITH (l Cor 12:9)
Since faith deals with the future and the unseen -things not physically experienced –the Gift of Faith is the special endowment given lo someone called upon to exercise an extraordinary capacity of trust. God supernaturally empties him of any doubt, and fills him with special faith. This enables him to accomplish God’s purpose despite every contrary and contradictory circumstance of life. General faith grows from the original seed of saving faith, which God has planted in our hearts (see Romans 1:17). The degree of general faith varies with stage of development of the believer (“little faith,” “great faith,”etc.). General faith grows as a result of feeding on the Word, being exercised through the circumstances of life ,and the like.
However, the Gift of Faith has superior function to even the highest degree of general faith. Some translators refer to the Gift of Faith as “special faith”. This indicates a faith bestowed by the Holy Spirit to meet our need in special and extenuating circumstances. This suggests further that the Gift of Faith is not permanently resident in any believer, but rather that each manifestation is a separate Gift of Faith. An episode in Elijah’s life illustrates this, when he declares to King Ahab that there will be no rain until he speaks the word and then it will rain again at his word (l Kings 17:1). His Gift of Faith produced the miraculous fulfillment of that prophecy. In contrast, this extraordinary faith was lacking when Elijah sat under: the juniper tree, fearful, discouraged and wanting to die, because it was not needed a t that time (1 Kings 19:4). He had not lost his faith in God or His Word. God wants you to know that you can go forth confidently, knowing that when special demands are made upon you, He will supernaturally give you special faith to enable you to fulfill His purposes.
How Does The Gift Of Faith Work?
Daniel’s protect ion from the lions (a passive instance of the Gift of Faith) seems to contrast with Samson’s slaying the lion, which is an example of man’s active involvement in the manifestation of the power of God (this would be an example of the Working of Miracles). This impression that the Gift of Faith functions passively is because it often works in cooperation with more dramatic gifts (e.g. the Working of Miracles, the Gifts of Healings, etc.). The Gift of Faith also operates through the speaking of word s of faith – “I believed , therefore have I spoken” (2 Cor 4: 13) – whereby those words a man of God speaks when inspired by the Spirit are backed by God as His own word. This gift can function in many ways (e.g., for blessing, for cursing, for creating, for destroying, etc.).
There are some notable examples of the Gift of Faith working through the spoken word in Joshua 10:12-14; 1 Kings 17:1; and Acts 13:11.
The Scriptures teach the principle of the word of faith:
Mark 11:22, 23: “he shall have whatever he says” in relation to the injunction, “have faith in God”.
Important Note: We CANNOT, by speaking a word, cause God to do something for us UNLESS:
a) it is God’s will for it to happen, and
b) God has enabled us, through the Gift of Faith, to speak a word of faith in order to make it happen.
If it is not God’s will for it to happen -no matter how we may feel -it will not happen. “Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass when the Lord has not commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that woe and well-being proceed?” (Lam 3:37, 38).
GIFTS OF HEALINGS (1 Cor 12:9)
In 1 Corinthians 12:9,28,30, the original reading is charismata iamaton. Both words are plural, making the correct translation of this phrase, “gifts of healings“.
Gifts of healings operate supernaturally to heal diseases and infirmities without natural means of any sort. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon a person’s body, dissolving their disease, driving out their pains to heal them. The use of the plural nouns here emphasizes the abundance of God’s healing gifts to afflicted mankind. It may also emphasize that Jesus’ healing will deliver from every sickness, weakness, plague, deformity and affliction. It also implies that there are a great variety of manifestations of this gift (l Cor 12:4-7). The exercise of the Gifts of Healings does not give the gifted an ability to heal all the sick all the time. Some have misunderstood this, and have asked why we do not go into hospitals and the like and raise up all that are sick. Even Jesus did not do this: He only went to what may correspond to a modem hospital once -when He went to the pool of Bethesda, where there were multitudes of sick people. Even then, He chose only one from all of them and healed him. Many times we read of great crowds of sick folk who came to Jesus, and we are told He “healed them all”. An important principle of divine healing is that the person must come to Jesus as an exercise of faith and cooperation.
The Purpose Of Gifts Of Healings
A. To deliver the sick and suffering and to destroy the works of the devil in human bodies (1 John 3:8, Acts 10:38, and Luke 13:16).
B. To prove Christ’s claim to be the Son of God (John 10:36-38).
C. To confirm the Word (Mark 16:17-20).
D. To attract people to the sound of the Gospel (Matt 4:23, 25).
E. To bring glory to God (Mark 2:12; Luke 13:13; 18:43; John 9:2, 3). Like all other gilts, the Gifts of Healings not only have to be given, but also must be received. Just as there is a principle of faith in regard to how to minister these gifts, there is also a principle that deals with how to receive them.
Hezekiah had difficulty receiving the gift of healing which God sent him. His faith had to be built up in a special way by the miracle recorded in 2 Kings 20:8-11.
Healing often requires a double act of faith: faith to receive and faith to administer the gift of healing. God’s desire to heal is very abundant. Nevertheless, every sick person does not get healed immediately when they are prayed for; and sometimes a person doesn’t get healed at all in this lifetime. Sometimes God communicates gifts of healings through the normal healing channels; at other times through extraordinary means, according to His will (e.g., Peter’s shadow, Acts 5:15, 16).
WORKING OF MIRACLES (l Cor 12:10)
The gift of the Working of Miracles comes when God endues us with power by the Holy Spirit to do something completely outside of the range of human ability. He gives it to us at a specific time for a special purpose.
All the gifts of the Spirit are miraculous, but the use of the word “miracle” in this instance refers to acts of power.
MIRACLES GIVE UNDENIABLE PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION
If Jesus were not alive, His name would have no power to heal the sick and work miracles (Acts 4:33). Peter convinced the unbelieving Jews of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and their need of repentance on the strength of the fact that Jesus’ name still had power to heal the sick and work miracles.
The Working of Miracles:
A. Gave boldness to the believers to preach Christ (Acts 4:29, 30).
B. Made believers hungry to have more of God (Acts 4:31, 32).
C. Convinced and convicted men of the undeniable power of God (Acts 4:13-16; 5:28-33).
D. Five thousand were converted in one day through observing a miracle of healing and hearing the preaching of God’s Word (Acts 4:4; see also 5:12-14). ·
E. All the people glorified God for what was done (Acts 4:21).
F. It caused the Gospel to spread quickly (Acts 5:14-16). Before Jesus started to work miracles, no crowds gathered to Him. He must have preached of ten in the synagogue, for Luke 4 says it was His custom. But when the miracles in Luke 4:33-37 took place, “the report about Him went out into every place in tile surrounding region“. From then on, the multitudes pressed in upon Him to hear His words and to see His miracles. “A great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased” (John 6:2). Everywhere the disciples preached, healed the sick, cast out demons and worked miracles, multitudes turned to Christ. You can read about some of these accounts in Acts 5:12-16; 8:6; 9:34,35; 9:40-42; 14:8-18; 28:8,9.
The Working of Miracles is the enabling of the Holy Spirit, giving the believer the ability to work a miracle, in contrast to God working miracles in the life of a believer. Thus many who have never received the gift of working miracles have often experienced astounding miracles that God has wrought on their behalf.
Some Examples:
A. Miracles of deliverance, such as Peter’s in Acts 5:17-20 and again in Acts 12:1-10. Also Paul and Silas in Acts 16:15-30.
B. Miracles of transportation (Acts 8:39). “The Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more.”
These, and many other instances, are miracles performed by God in the lives of believers, sometimes even without the cooperation of the believer. These are not, therefore, instances where the gift of Working of Miracles was operating. In contrast now are three where this gift was in operation:
Acts 19:11: “And God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul.”
Acts 9:36-40: Peter raised Dorcas from the dead.
Acts 20:9-12: Paul restored Eutychus to life.
Practical Operation Of The Gift
The operation of the Gift of Miracles requires:
A. The anointing of the Holy Spirit to create special confidence and authority.
B. A spoken word of faith and authority. Elijah said that the God who answered by fire should be Israel’s Lord. The fire that came down was an example of the Working of Miracles.
C. A bold act of faith, stepping out in obedience to the Spirit’s leading. 1 Corinthians 12:31 a:
“Best” Gifts?
At the very end of the passage, Paul gives a key exhortation to approaching the gifts in a balanced and correct manner. The text reads: “But earnestly desire the best gifts.” The phrase used here seems to contradict Paul’s earlier statements about the gifts using the analogy of the body (vs. 12-27). In those verses, he forcefully states that no single part of the body is more important than any other part. As each part of the human body plays its part properly, the whole body functions quite well. The same is true of all the gifts. No one gift should be over-emphasized, over-used, or over-valued in a local church. Why, then, would Paul seem to imply that there were “best gifts” to be desired?
The Right Gift For The Right Time
A good way to interpret the sentence in 1 Corinthians 12:31 a is: “But covet earnestly the most best gift [fitted for] the right [appropriate) moment of ministry.”
In other words, our desire should not be to simply want God to give us a certain gift to use over and over. Rather, our earnest desire should be simply that God would use us, giving us the correct gift for that particular moment of ministry need! Prophetic words are wonderful and inspiring; but if someone needs a miraculous healing in his body, a prophecy will not help him! This is a simple illustration, yet it shows how we need multiple gifts for multiple needs. It also demonstrates that we should be open to HOWEVER God wants to use us. We should not try to predetermine in what way God will use us; only desire that He will use us.
Be Prepared!
This requires us to be spiritually prepared at all times, but especially in church meetings. It also means that we must be yielded and submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit and willing to step out in bold faith as He guides us. If that is your heart, be prepared- through prayer and the study of the Bible -for God will use you!
THE EIGHT BEATITUDES OF JESUS:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10
Bible Verses About Christian Character (KJV)
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 5:3-5 - And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2 Peter 1:5-7 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Colossians 3:12-15 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
Acts 20:35 - I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Luke 6:31 - And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 5:3-5 - And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2 Peter 1:5-7 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Colossians 3:12-15 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
Acts 20:35 - I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Luke 6:31 - And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Spirit Led light bulb:
look it up...OLD TESTAMENT WAY...which we as Christians are still supposed to follow...the statutes and guidelines were set down by God FOREVER...Jesus's coming, life and death did NOT cancel these out as is taught in so many denominations today. If folks would just READ THE BOOK its plain as day, simple enough for a child to understand, easy to do, it feels right and good in your heart and spirit and most importantly, pleasing to God!!
look it up...OLD TESTAMENT WAY...which we as Christians are still supposed to follow...the statutes and guidelines were set down by God FOREVER...Jesus's coming, life and death did NOT cancel these out as is taught in so many denominations today. If folks would just READ THE BOOK its plain as day, simple enough for a child to understand, easy to do, it feels right and good in your heart and spirit and most importantly, pleasing to God!!
GOD'S JOB:
PS 147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Psalm 34:18
The Lord is near to those who are discouraged; he saves those who have lost all hope.
PS 147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Psalm 34:18
The Lord is near to those who are discouraged; he saves those who have lost all hope.
OUR JOBS AS HIS CHILDREN:
Although in 2 examples Jesus was addressing certain people, to make it clearer and have The Bible Prove itself, it helps to read the entire Commission of His Church like this:
Matthew 10:8
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have received; freely give.
THIS IS HOW:
Matthew 28:19-20
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have Commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
BECAUSE:
John 21:15-17
15 ...Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?'
'Yes, Lord,' he said, 'you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Feed my lambs.'
16 Again Jesus said, 'Simon son of John, do you truly love me?'
He answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Take care of my sheep.'
17 The third time he said to him, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?'
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, 'Do you love me?' He said, 'Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Feed my sheep.'"
Although in 2 examples Jesus was addressing certain people, to make it clearer and have The Bible Prove itself, it helps to read the entire Commission of His Church like this:
Matthew 10:8
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have received; freely give.
THIS IS HOW:
Matthew 28:19-20
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have Commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
BECAUSE:
John 21:15-17
15 ...Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?'
'Yes, Lord,' he said, 'you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Feed my lambs.'
16 Again Jesus said, 'Simon son of John, do you truly love me?'
He answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Take care of my sheep.'
17 The third time he said to him, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?'
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, 'Do you love me?' He said, 'Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Feed my sheep.'"
Spirit Led light bulb:
I have an observation. Just because the means by which a ceremonial atonement is made because there is no involvement of killing an animal DOES NOT mean that Holy Days were to not be observed at all any more. PRIESTS COULD STILL BE RELEASING GOATS as a symbol to God that the original statute is being observed and each of us should once a year, month, week, day, be making amends and atoning and confessing our wrongs to and toward each other anyway. And as far as not eating blood, Jesus never changed that, all meats should be completely drained of blood before it is cooked and consumed and offered to God to do with in our bodies as He sees fit since the food CAME from Him and our sustenance is for our strength to do His work in the first place. Comments?
I have an observation. Just because the means by which a ceremonial atonement is made because there is no involvement of killing an animal DOES NOT mean that Holy Days were to not be observed at all any more. PRIESTS COULD STILL BE RELEASING GOATS as a symbol to God that the original statute is being observed and each of us should once a year, month, week, day, be making amends and atoning and confessing our wrongs to and toward each other anyway. And as far as not eating blood, Jesus never changed that, all meats should be completely drained of blood before it is cooked and consumed and offered to God to do with in our bodies as He sees fit since the food CAME from Him and our sustenance is for our strength to do His work in the first place. Comments?
Genesis 9:8-17 King James Version (KJV)
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
SPIRIT LED LIGHT BULB:
So the blood sacrifices being null and void thanks to Jesus, I cannot help think that the rest of the treatments for boils and plagues in man, clothes and home and issues and leprosy and the list of animals to eat or not eat seems to reasonable common-sense and if the same measures were followed more closely by modern man maybe, just maybe illnesses would not be so prevalent and health concerns caused by dietary issues would not be so rampant.
So the blood sacrifices being null and void thanks to Jesus, I cannot help think that the rest of the treatments for boils and plagues in man, clothes and home and issues and leprosy and the list of animals to eat or not eat seems to reasonable common-sense and if the same measures were followed more closely by modern man maybe, just maybe illnesses would not be so prevalent and health concerns caused by dietary issues would not be so rampant.
A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON SUPPLICATION PRAYER:
"PLEASE GOD, HELP ME WITH (insert trial, issue, dilemma etc. here)..."
FOLLOW WITH THIS THOUGHT:
Luke 22:44-
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
"PLEASE GOD, HELP ME WITH (insert trial, issue, dilemma etc. here)..."
FOLLOW WITH THIS THOUGHT:
Luke 22:44-
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
John 19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe
John 19:1
19 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
19 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
John 19:17
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha
Matthew 27:34-35
34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
Matthew 27:45-53
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
Matthew 27:36-44
36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.
37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews...
39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads...
41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him...
44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.
37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews...
39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads...
41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him...
44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
Matt 27:50-51
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Matt 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose
Matt 27:53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Matt 27:57-60
57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Matthew 28:1-6
28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
Matt 28:6-8
6 Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. 8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
6 Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. 8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
Matt 6:9-10
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. 10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. 10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
THEREFORE WHEN WE HAVE PRAYERS OF SUPPLICATION, WE SHOULD FIRST KEEP IN MIND JESUS' PURPOSE AND THAT GOD HAS PROVIDED US WITH:
First, examine yourself, your skills, Gifts, Talents and resources to see what you can do BEFORE asking God to do for you or someone else what you have the Grace to do...THEN ask God to do His Part during the time you are doing yours!
Traci Cooper
Founder/Admin
Joy Truth Kindness
Outreach Project
Traci Cooper
Founder/Admin
Joy Truth Kindness
Outreach Project
HIS GRACE:
Definition of Grace:
1 a : unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification
b : a virtue coming from God
c : a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance
d: a Gift Given by God through the Holy Spirit to a person daily that provides all the Strength, Ability and Knowledge to accomplish all that needs to be done in that day's time.
Definition of Grace:
1 a : unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification
b : a virtue coming from God
c : a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance
d: a Gift Given by God through the Holy Spirit to a person daily that provides all the Strength, Ability and Knowledge to accomplish all that needs to be done in that day's time.
GOD'S WORD GIVES US A LOT TO SELAH (to meditate and think heavily upon):
Psalms 3:2
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
Psalms 3:4
I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 3:8
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Psalms 4:2
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 9:16
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms 9:20
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalms 20:3
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Psalms 21:2
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 24:10
Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 44:8
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Psalms 46:3
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Psalms 46:7
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 46:11
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 47:4
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Psalms 48:8
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Psalms 52:3
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 55:7
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Psalms 55:19
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah.
Psalms 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Psalms 59:5
Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Psalms 59:13
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 60:4
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Psalms 61:4
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
Psalms 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psalms 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalms 66:4
All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalms 66:7
He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
Psalms 66:15
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms 67:1
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Psalms 67:4
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
Psalms 68:7
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
Psalms 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Psalms 68:32
Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
Psalms 75:3
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Psalms 76:3
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Psalms 76:9
When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:9
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psalms 77:15
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Psalms 81:7
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psalms 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psalms 83:8
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Psalms 84:4
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Psalms 84:8
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 85:2
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Psalms 87:6
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Psalms 89:4
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Psalms 89:37
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Psalms 89:45
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89:48
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms 140:8
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
Psalms 143:6
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:3
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:9
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah
Psalms 3:2
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
Psalms 3:4
I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 3:8
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Psalms 4:2
O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 9:16
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms 9:20
Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalms 20:3
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Psalms 21:2
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 24:10
Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 44:8
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Psalms 46:3
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Psalms 46:7
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 46:11
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 47:4
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Psalms 48:8
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Psalms 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Psalms 52:3
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Psalms 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 55:7
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Psalms 55:19
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah.
Psalms 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Psalms 59:5
Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
Psalms 59:13
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 60:4
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Psalms 61:4
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
Psalms 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psalms 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalms 66:4
All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalms 66:7
He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
Psalms 66:15
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms 67:1
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Psalms 67:4
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
Psalms 68:7
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
Psalms 68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Psalms 68:32
Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
Psalms 75:3
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Psalms 76:3
There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Psalms 76:9
When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:9
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psalms 77:15
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Psalms 81:7
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Psalms 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psalms 83:8
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Psalms 84:4
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Psalms 84:8
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms 85:2
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Psalms 87:6
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Psalms 89:4
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Psalms 89:37
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Psalms 89:45
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89:48
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms 140:8
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
Psalms 143:6
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:3
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:9
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah.
Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah
Selah
[1] The meaning of the word is not known, though various interpretations are given below. (It should not be confused with the Hebrew word sela` (Hebrew: סֶלַע) which means "rock", or in an adjectival form, "like a rock", i.e.: firm, hard, heavy) It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen." Selah can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm.[2] The Amplified Bible translates selah as "pause, and think of that." It can also be interpreted as a form of underlining in preparation for the next paragraph.
At least some of the Psalms were sung accompanied by musical instruments and there are references to this in many chapters. Thirty-one of the thirty-nine psalms with the caption "To the choir-master" include the word selah. Selah may indicate a break in the song whose purpose is similar to that of Amen (Hebrew: "so be it") in that it stresses the truth and importance of the preceding passage; this interpretation is consistent with the meaning of the Semitic root ṣ-l-ḥ also reflected in Arabic cognate salih (variously "valid" [in the logical sense of "truth-preserving"], "honest," and "righteous"). Alternatively, selah may mean "forever," as it does in some places in the liturgy (notably the second to last blessing of the Amidah). Another interpretation claims that selah comes from the primary Hebrew root word salah (סָלָה) which means "to hang," and by implication to measure (weigh).[3]
[1] The meaning of the word is not known, though various interpretations are given below. (It should not be confused with the Hebrew word sela` (Hebrew: סֶלַע) which means "rock", or in an adjectival form, "like a rock", i.e.: firm, hard, heavy) It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen." Selah can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm.[2] The Amplified Bible translates selah as "pause, and think of that." It can also be interpreted as a form of underlining in preparation for the next paragraph.
At least some of the Psalms were sung accompanied by musical instruments and there are references to this in many chapters. Thirty-one of the thirty-nine psalms with the caption "To the choir-master" include the word selah. Selah may indicate a break in the song whose purpose is similar to that of Amen (Hebrew: "so be it") in that it stresses the truth and importance of the preceding passage; this interpretation is consistent with the meaning of the Semitic root ṣ-l-ḥ also reflected in Arabic cognate salih (variously "valid" [in the logical sense of "truth-preserving"], "honest," and "righteous"). Alternatively, selah may mean "forever," as it does in some places in the liturgy (notably the second to last blessing of the Amidah). Another interpretation claims that selah comes from the primary Hebrew root word salah (סָלָה) which means "to hang," and by implication to measure (weigh).[3]
MY 7 DEADLY SIN STUDY:
1. Lust: uncontrollable passion or longing, especially for sexual desires
Genesis 40:10
And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Numbers 11:4
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Numbers 11:34
And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
Numbers 13:23
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers 13:24
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Deuteronomy 12:20
When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy 14:26
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Judges 3:29
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
1 Samuel 30:12
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:30
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Song of Solomon 7:7
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Song of Solomon 7:8
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Isaiah 65:8
Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Galatians 5:16
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Galatians 5:24
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 3:6
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 4:2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 2:10
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:17
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Revelation 18:14
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
2. Gluttony: an excessive ongoing consumption of food or drink.
Philippians 3:19 - Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Proverbs 23:20-21 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: (Read More...)
Proverbs 23:2 - And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (Read More...)
Proverbs 25:16 - Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs 23:21 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
Psalms 78:18 - And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
1 Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Philippians 3:18-19 - (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: (Read More...)
Deuteronomy 21:20 - And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.
Romans 13:14 - But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
Proverbs 23:20 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Galatians 5:16-26 - [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 6:12 - All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
3. Greed: an excessive pursuit of material
Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs 21:26
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Isaiah 56:11
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Ezekiel 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Matthew 20:2
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Mark 14:56
For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
John 9:22
These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Acts 5:9
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Acts 5:40
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 23:20
And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
Acts 28:25
And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
Ephesians 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1 Timothy 3:8
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
4. Sloth: an excessive laziness or the failure to act and utilize one’s talents. Joshua 19:12
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
Judges 18:9
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 12:27
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:24
A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Proverbs 22:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Proverbs 26:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets
Proverbs 26:14
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
Proverbs 26:15
The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Matthew 25:26
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
5. Wrath: an uncontrollable anger and hate towards another person.
Genesis 39:19
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exodus 32:10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Exodus 32:11
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Leviticus 10:6
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
Numbers 11:33
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers 16:46
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers 18:5
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:11
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:8
Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 9:22
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
Deuteronomy 11:17
And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deuteronomy 29:28
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Joshua 9:20
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
1 Samuel 28:18
Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
2 Samuel 11:20
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
2 Kings 22:13
Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings 22:17
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 23:26
Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
2 Chronicles 12:7
And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:12
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
2 Chronicles 19:10
And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
2 Chronicles 24:18
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
2 Chronicles 28:11
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
2 Chronicles 28:13
And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 34:21
Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
2 Chronicles 34:25
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Ezra 5:12
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra 7:23
Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Ezra 10:14
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
Nehemiah 13:18
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Esther 1:18
Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
Esther 2:1
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
Esther 3:5
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Esther 7:7
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 14:13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 16:9
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 21:20
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 32:2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 32:5
When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Job 36:18
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job 40:11
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Psalms 2:5
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalms 2:12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 21:9
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms 37:8
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psalms 38:1
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms 59:13
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 69:24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Psalms 78:31
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Psalms 78:38
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 78:49
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Psalms 85:3
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:16
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Psalms 89:46
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalms 90:11
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms 95:11
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Psalms 102:10
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Psalms 106:40
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Psalms 110:5
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Psalms 124:3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Psalms 138:7
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 12:16
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 14:35
The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 19:19
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Proverbs 21:24
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Proverbs 24:18
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Proverbs 30:33
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Isaiah 9:19
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah 13:13
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 14:6
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
Isaiah 54:8
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Isaiah 60:10
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jeremiah 21:5
And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
Jeremiah 44:8
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 48:30
I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:14
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 13:15
Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel 21:31
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel 22:21
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 38:19
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea 13:11
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Amos 1:11
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Nahum 1:2
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Habakkuk 3:2
O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:8
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Zephaniah 1:15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zechariah 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 8:14
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 3:7
Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 4:28
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Acts 19:28
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Romans 2:5
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans 2:8
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Romans 12:19
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans 13:4
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Romans 13:5
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:6
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Hebrews 3:11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Hebrews 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:20
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Revelation 6:17
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Revelation 14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation 14:19
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation 15:1
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Revelation 15:7
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Revelation 16:1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Revelation 16:19
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Revelation 18:3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God
6. Envy: the intense desire to have and/or experience that someone else possesses.
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Proverbs 3:31
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 23:17
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Isaiah 11:13
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Isaiah 26:11
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Ezekiel 35:11
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Mark 15:10
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts 17:5
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
1 Timothy 6:4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
7. Pride: an excessive view of one's self without regard for others.
Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
2 Chronicles 32:26
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Job 33:17
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job 35:12
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 41:15
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job 41:34
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Psalms 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 9:9
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
Isaiah 23:9
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Isaiah 25:11
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28:3
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Jeremiah 13:9
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Jeremiah 48:29
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jeremiah 49:16
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:10
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:56
For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
Ezekiel 30:6
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Daniel 4:37
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
Hosea 7:10
And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Zephaniah 2:10
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Zephaniah 3:11
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Zechariah 9:6
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 10:11
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
Zechariah 11:3
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
1 Timothy 3:6
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1. Lust: uncontrollable passion or longing, especially for sexual desires
Genesis 40:10
And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Numbers 11:4
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Numbers 11:34
And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
Numbers 13:23
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers 13:24
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Deuteronomy 12:15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Deuteronomy 12:20
When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy 12:21
If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy 14:26
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Judges 3:29
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
1 Samuel 30:12
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
Psalms 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms 78:30
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Song of Solomon 7:7
This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Song of Solomon 7:8
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Isaiah 65:8
Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Galatians 5:16
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Galatians 5:24
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Timothy 6:9
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 3:6
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 4:2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
2 Peter 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 Peter 2:10
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:17
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Revelation 18:14
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
2. Gluttony: an excessive ongoing consumption of food or drink.
Philippians 3:19 - Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Proverbs 23:20-21 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: (Read More...)
Proverbs 23:2 - And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (Read More...)
Proverbs 25:16 - Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs 23:21 - For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.
Psalms 78:18 - And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
1 Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Philippians 3:18-19 - (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: (Read More...)
Deuteronomy 21:20 - And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.
Romans 13:14 - But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
Proverbs 23:20 - Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Galatians 5:16-26 - [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 6:12 - All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
3. Greed: an excessive pursuit of material
Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs 21:26
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Isaiah 56:11
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Ezekiel 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Matthew 20:2
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Mark 14:56
For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
John 9:22
These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Acts 5:9
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Acts 5:40
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 23:20
And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
Acts 28:25
And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
Ephesians 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1 Timothy 3:8
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
4. Sloth: an excessive laziness or the failure to act and utilize one’s talents. Joshua 19:12
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
Judges 18:9
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs 12:27
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Proverbs 15:19
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 19:24
A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Proverbs 22:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Proverbs 26:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets
Proverbs 26:14
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
Proverbs 26:15
The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Ecclesiastes 10:18
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Matthew 25:26
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
5. Wrath: an uncontrollable anger and hate towards another person.
Genesis 39:19
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exodus 32:10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Exodus 32:11
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Leviticus 10:6
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
Numbers 11:33
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers 16:46
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
Numbers 18:5
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:11
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Deuteronomy 9:7
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:8
Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 9:22
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
Deuteronomy 11:17
And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deuteronomy 29:28
And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Joshua 9:20
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
1 Samuel 28:18
Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
2 Samuel 11:20
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
2 Kings 22:13
Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings 22:17
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Kings 23:26
Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
1 Chronicles 27:24
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
2 Chronicles 12:7
And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:12
And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
2 Chronicles 19:10
And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.
2 Chronicles 24:18
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
2 Chronicles 28:11
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.
2 Chronicles 28:13
And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:8
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 34:21
Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
2 Chronicles 34:25
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Ezra 5:12
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra 7:23
Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Ezra 10:14
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
Nehemiah 13:18
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Esther 1:18
Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
Esther 2:1
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
Esther 3:5
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Esther 7:7
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 14:13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 16:9
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Job 21:20
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 32:2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 32:5
When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Job 36:18
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job 40:11
Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Psalms 2:5
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalms 2:12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 21:9
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Psalms 37:8
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psalms 38:1
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms 55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms 59:13
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 69:24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Psalms 78:31
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Psalms 78:38
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 78:49
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms 79:6
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Psalms 85:3
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms 88:16
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
Psalms 89:46
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 90:7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalms 90:11
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Psalms 95:11
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Psalms 102:10
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Psalms 106:40
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Psalms 110:5
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Psalms 124:3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Psalms 138:7
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Proverbs 12:16
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 14:35
The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 19:19
A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Proverbs 21:24
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Proverbs 24:18
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs 29:8
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Proverbs 30:33
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Isaiah 9:19
Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah 13:13
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
Isaiah 14:6
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
Isaiah 54:8
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Isaiah 60:10
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jeremiah 21:5
And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
Jeremiah 44:8
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 48:30
I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Ezekiel 7:12
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:14
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 13:15
Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel 21:31
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel 22:21
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 38:19
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Hosea 13:11
I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Amos 1:11
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
Nahum 1:2
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Habakkuk 3:2
O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:8
Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Zephaniah 1:15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zechariah 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 8:14
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 3:7
Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 4:28
And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Acts 19:28
And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Romans 2:5
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans 2:8
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Romans 12:19
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans 13:4
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Romans 13:5
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Ephesians 4:26
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:6
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Hebrews 3:11
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Hebrews 4:3
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:20
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Revelation 6:17
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation 11:18
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Revelation 14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Revelation 14:10
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelation 14:19
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation 15:1
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Revelation 15:7
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Revelation 16:1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Revelation 16:19
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Revelation 18:3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God
6. Envy: the intense desire to have and/or experience that someone else possesses.
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Proverbs 3:31
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 23:17
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Isaiah 11:13
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Isaiah 26:11
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Ezekiel 35:11
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Mark 15:10
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts 17:5
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
1 Timothy 6:4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
7. Pride: an excessive view of one's self without regard for others.
Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
2 Chronicles 32:26
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Job 33:17
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job 35:12
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 41:15
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
Job 41:34
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.
Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Psalms 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 9:9
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Isaiah 16:6
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
Isaiah 23:9
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Isaiah 25:11
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 28:3
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Jeremiah 13:9
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Jeremiah 48:29
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jeremiah 49:16
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:10
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:56
For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
Ezekiel 30:6
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Daniel 4:37
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
Hosea 7:10
And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Zephaniah 2:10
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Zephaniah 3:11
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
Zechariah 9:6
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Zechariah 10:11
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
Zechariah 11:3
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
1 Timothy 3:6
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
SPIRIT LED LIGHT BULB:
Intercession or intercessory prayer is the act of praying to a deity on behalf of others. In Western Christianity, intercession forms a distinct form of prayer, alongside Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving.
Deification or theosis, according to Eastern Orthodoxy, is a process by which one becomes “one with God,” and this is seen as the goal of the Christian life. This unity with God is a mystical concept that is often misunderstood by Western thinkers. The Eastern Orthodox Church is staunchly Trinitarian, and the term deification should not be misunderstood to imply that a human being can actually become God or a god, nor does this amount to pantheism. It is said that man cannot become one with God in His essence, but he can become one with His energies. Love, for instance, is a divine energy, and it is possible for the believer to be fully united and overcome by God’s love.
Pantheism:
a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
worship that admits or tolerates all gods.
Pantheism is the belief that all reality is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God
The thinking behind the doctrine of deification runs along this line: one day we will be transformed into the image of Christ, and it should be our goal to become as much like Him as possible in this life. We do this by putting sin to death in our lives and practicing spiritual disciplines. Through these means, we can actually become united with God, and it is possible in this life. The Orthodox teaching of deification in many ways resembles the doctrine of entire sanctification taught by some Wesleyan groups.
What the Eastern Orthodox Church calls “deification” might be understood by evangelicals as the new birth and subsequent sanctification. But the Orthodox concept of deification takes sanctification further to include a mystical union with God. The biggest problem with the doctrine is not the term deification but the means to it, as taught by the Eastern Orthodox Church. According to the New Testament, we are united with Christ, filled with the fullness of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, and declared to be right with God on the basis of faith in Christ. It is not something that happens as the result of a (perhaps) lifelong pursuit of unity with God through effort and discipline. In Christ we have become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:14). The actual experience of this can ebb and flow, but the fact of it never changes.
The great question that must be answered by every religion that takes a holy God seriously is “how can a sinful man stand before God and be fully justified?” There are really only two answers. Either God accepts the sinner based on some effort on the part of the sinner to attain a state of righteousness or God accepts the sinner on the basis of Christ’s righteousness credited to the sinner. Unfortunately, the Eastern Orthodox process of deification seems to fall squarely within the first option
Intercession or intercessory prayer is the act of praying to a deity on behalf of others. In Western Christianity, intercession forms a distinct form of prayer, alongside Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving.
Deification or theosis, according to Eastern Orthodoxy, is a process by which one becomes “one with God,” and this is seen as the goal of the Christian life. This unity with God is a mystical concept that is often misunderstood by Western thinkers. The Eastern Orthodox Church is staunchly Trinitarian, and the term deification should not be misunderstood to imply that a human being can actually become God or a god, nor does this amount to pantheism. It is said that man cannot become one with God in His essence, but he can become one with His energies. Love, for instance, is a divine energy, and it is possible for the believer to be fully united and overcome by God’s love.
Pantheism:
a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
worship that admits or tolerates all gods.
Pantheism is the belief that all reality is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God
The thinking behind the doctrine of deification runs along this line: one day we will be transformed into the image of Christ, and it should be our goal to become as much like Him as possible in this life. We do this by putting sin to death in our lives and practicing spiritual disciplines. Through these means, we can actually become united with God, and it is possible in this life. The Orthodox teaching of deification in many ways resembles the doctrine of entire sanctification taught by some Wesleyan groups.
What the Eastern Orthodox Church calls “deification” might be understood by evangelicals as the new birth and subsequent sanctification. But the Orthodox concept of deification takes sanctification further to include a mystical union with God. The biggest problem with the doctrine is not the term deification but the means to it, as taught by the Eastern Orthodox Church. According to the New Testament, we are united with Christ, filled with the fullness of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, and declared to be right with God on the basis of faith in Christ. It is not something that happens as the result of a (perhaps) lifelong pursuit of unity with God through effort and discipline. In Christ we have become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:14). The actual experience of this can ebb and flow, but the fact of it never changes.
The great question that must be answered by every religion that takes a holy God seriously is “how can a sinful man stand before God and be fully justified?” There are really only two answers. Either God accepts the sinner based on some effort on the part of the sinner to attain a state of righteousness or God accepts the sinner on the basis of Christ’s righteousness credited to the sinner. Unfortunately, the Eastern Orthodox process of deification seems to fall squarely within the first option
Fruits of the holy spirit and their meanings
The Fruit of the Holy Spirit is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit according to the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."
1. Love –
Bible Verses About Love(KJV)
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 - Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 16:14 - Let all your things be done with charity.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Mark 12:29-31 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Matthew 22:36-40 - Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?
John 13:34-35 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Colossians 3:14 - And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 Peter 4:8 - And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
John 14:15 - If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 John 4:18 - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13 - And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.
2. Joy – Bible Verses About Joy
(KJV)
Romans 12:12 - Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
James 1:2 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Romans 15:13 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
John 16:24 - Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
1 Peter 1:8 - Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Proverbs 17:22 - A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
James 1:2-4 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
John 16:22 - And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Romans 14:17 - For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Psalms 16:9 - Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 - Rejoice evermore.
Psalms 118:24 - This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
3. Peace – Bible Verses About Peace (KJV)
2 Thessalonians 3:16 - Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord [be] with you all.
John 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Philippians 4:6 - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Isaiah 26:3 - Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
1 Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Matthew 5:9 - Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Romans 12:18 - If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Matthew 10:34-36 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
1 Peter 3:11 - Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Romans 15:13 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Hebrews 12:14 - Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
1 Peter 5:6-7 - Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Psalms 4:8 - I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Proverbs 12:20 - Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
Isaiah 12:2 - Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.
1 Corinthians 14:33 - For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
4. Longsuffering – Bible Verses About Long Suffering(KJV)
2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Ephesians 4:2 - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Romans 5:3-4 - And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
James 4:7 - Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 2:10 - For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Romans 2:4 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
2 Peter 3:1-18 - This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in [both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: Matthew 25:41 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Romans 9:22 - [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Job 1:1-22 - There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Romans 8:28-29 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Psalms 37:10-11 - For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].
Exodus 34:6 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Colossians 3:12 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Corinthians 2:9 - But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Matthew 25:46 - And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Hebrews 4:15 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
John 3:15 - That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
5. Kindness -
Bible Verses About Kindness (KJV)
Ephesians 4:32 - And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Luke 6:35 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.
Proverbs 11:17 - The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Colossians 3:12 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Proverbs 31:26 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 - Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 19:17 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Galatians 6:10 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
1 Peter 3:9 - Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
1 John 3:18 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Philippians 2:1-30 - If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
6. Goodness – Bible Verses About Goodness (KJV)
Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Psalms 23:6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Psalms 31:19 - [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (Read More...)
Psalms 145:15 - 127:19 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Romans 12:9 - [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
James 3:13 - Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Psalms 27:13 - [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 6:10 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Psalms 34:8 - O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.
Micah 6:8 - He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 12:35 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Psalms 65:4 - Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.
Psalms 25:7 - Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
John 3:16-17 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
7. Faithfulness – Bible Verses About Faithfulness (KJV)
Proverbs 28:20 - A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Luke 16:10-12 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Deuteronomy 28:1-68 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 Corinthians 5:7 - (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Luke 12:42-44 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his household, to give [them their] portion of meat in due season?
1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Corinthians 10:13 - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
John 14:15 - If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Psalms 91:4 - He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
1 Corinthians 4:2 - Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Proverbs 3:3-4 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Psalms 89:33 - Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
2 Timothy 2:13 - If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
8. Gentleness –
Bible Verses About Gentleness
(KJV)
Titus 3:2 - To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
1 Peter 3:15 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Psalms 18:35 - Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
2 Timothy 2:24-26 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Proverbs 15:1 - A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 6:1 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Matthew 11:29 - Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Ephesians 4:2 - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
James 1:19-20 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
2 Samuel 22:36 - Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 - Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Isaiah 40:11 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
9. Self Control-Bible Verses About Self Control (KJV)
Proverbs 25:28 - He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
Galatians 5:19-25 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Titus 1:8 - But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
2 Peter 1:5-6 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
1 Peter 4:7 - But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Titus 2:6 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
Romans 12:19 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
James 1:20 - For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
2 Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 12:1-2 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Matthew 26:52-54 - Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Galatians 5:23 - Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Matthew 5:38-39 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Proverbs 25:26 - A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
The Fruit of the Holy Spirit is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit according to the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."
1. Love –
Bible Verses About Love(KJV)
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 - Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 16:14 - Let all your things be done with charity.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Mark 12:29-31 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Matthew 22:36-40 - Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?
John 13:34-35 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Colossians 3:14 - And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
John 15:13 - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 Peter 4:8 - And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
John 14:15 - If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 John 4:18 - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13 - And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.
2. Joy – Bible Verses About Joy
(KJV)
Romans 12:12 - Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
James 1:2 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Romans 15:13 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Philippians 4:4 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and] again I say, Rejoice.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
John 16:24 - Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
1 Peter 1:8 - Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Proverbs 17:22 - A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
James 1:2-4 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
John 16:22 - And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Romans 14:17 - For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Psalms 16:9 - Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
1 Thessalonians 5:16 - Rejoice evermore.
Psalms 118:24 - This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
3. Peace – Bible Verses About Peace (KJV)
2 Thessalonians 3:16 - Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord [be] with you all.
John 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Philippians 4:6 - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Isaiah 26:3 - Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]: because he trusteth in thee.
1 Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Matthew 5:9 - Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Romans 12:18 - If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Matthew 10:34-36 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
1 Peter 3:11 - Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Romans 15:13 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Hebrews 12:14 - Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
1 Peter 5:6-7 - Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Psalms 4:8 - I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Proverbs 12:20 - Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
Isaiah 12:2 - Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation.
1 Corinthians 14:33 - For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
4. Longsuffering – Bible Verses About Long Suffering(KJV)
2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Ephesians 4:2 - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Romans 5:3-4 - And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
James 4:7 - Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 2:10 - For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Romans 2:4 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
2 Peter 3:1-18 - This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in [both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: Matthew 25:41 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Romans 9:22 - [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Job 1:1-22 - There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Romans 8:28-29 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Psalms 37:10-11 - For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].
Exodus 34:6 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Colossians 3:12 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Corinthians 2:9 - But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Matthew 25:46 - And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Hebrews 4:15 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
John 3:15 - That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
5. Kindness -
Bible Verses About Kindness (KJV)
Ephesians 4:32 - And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Luke 6:35 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.
Proverbs 11:17 - The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.
Colossians 3:12 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Proverbs 31:26 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue [is] the law of kindness.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 - Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 19:17 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Galatians 6:10 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
1 Peter 3:9 - Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
1 John 3:18 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Philippians 2:1-30 - If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
6. Goodness – Bible Verses About Goodness (KJV)
Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Psalms 23:6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Psalms 31:19 - [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (Read More...)
Psalms 145:15 - 127:19 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Romans 12:9 - [Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
James 3:13 - Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Psalms 27:13 - [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 6:10 - As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Psalms 34:8 - O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.
Micah 6:8 - He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 12:35 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Psalms 65:4 - Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.
Psalms 25:7 - Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
John 3:16-17 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
7. Faithfulness – Bible Verses About Faithfulness (KJV)
Proverbs 28:20 - A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Luke 16:10-12 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Deuteronomy 28:1-68 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 Corinthians 5:7 - (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Luke 12:42-44 - And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his household, to give [them their] portion of meat in due season?
1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Corinthians 10:13 - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].
John 14:15 - If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Psalms 91:4 - He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
1 Corinthians 4:2 - Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Proverbs 3:3-4 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Psalms 89:33 - Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
2 Timothy 2:13 - If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
8. Gentleness –
Bible Verses About Gentleness
(KJV)
Titus 3:2 - To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
1 Peter 3:15 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Psalms 18:35 - Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
2 Timothy 2:24-26 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Proverbs 15:1 - A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Galatians 6:1 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Matthew 11:29 - Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Ephesians 4:2 - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
James 1:19-20 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
2 Samuel 22:36 - Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 - Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Isaiah 40:11 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.
Galatians 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
9. Self Control-Bible Verses About Self Control (KJV)
Proverbs 25:28 - He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
Galatians 5:19-25 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Titus 1:8 - But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
2 Peter 1:5-6 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
1 Peter 4:7 - But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
Titus 2:6 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
Romans 12:19 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
James 1:20 - For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
2 Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Romans 12:1-2 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Matthew 26:52-54 - Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Galatians 5:23 - Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Matthew 5:38-39 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Proverbs 25:26 - A righteous man falling down before the wicked [is as] a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Definition of humility: freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble
Bible Verses: OT
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
Deuteronomy 22:4 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Judges 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
1 Kings 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
2 Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
2 Chronicles 12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
2 Chronicles 34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
Job 22:29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Psalms 9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalms 10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Psalms 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalms 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalms 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms 113:6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
Proverbs 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Isaiah 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Lamentations 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Ezekiel 22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Ezekiel 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. Daniel 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
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Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
APOCRYPHA
2 Esdras 8:49 In that thou hast humbled thyself, as it becometh thee, and hast not judged thyself worthy to be much glorified among the righteous.
2 Esdras 10:7 How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sore?
Tobit 4:19 Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.
Judith 4:9 Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and with great vehemency did they humble their souls:
Additions to Esther 14:2 And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish and mourning: and instead of precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.
Ecclesiasticus 2:17 They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,
Ecclesiasticus 3:18 The greater thou art, the more humble thyself, and thou shalt find favour before the Lord.
Ecclesiasticus 7:11 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one which humbleth and exalteth.
Ecclesiasticus 7:17 Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.
Ecclesiasticus 12:11 Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away.
Ecclesiasticus 18:21 Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins shew repentance.
Ecclesiasticus 35:17 The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgment.
Ecclesiasticus 40:3 From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes;
Baruch 2:19 Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
Prayer of Azariah 1:16 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted.
Prayer of Azariah 1:65 O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
Bible Verses: OT
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
Deuteronomy 22:4 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Judges 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
1 Kings 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
2 Kings 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 12:6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
2 Chronicles 12:7 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles 33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
2 Chronicles 34:27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
Job 22:29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Psalms 9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalms 10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Psalms 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalms 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalms 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms 113:6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
Proverbs 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Proverbs 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Isaiah 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Lamentations 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Ezekiel 22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Ezekiel 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. Daniel 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
NT
Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
2 Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
APOCRYPHA
2 Esdras 8:49 In that thou hast humbled thyself, as it becometh thee, and hast not judged thyself worthy to be much glorified among the righteous.
2 Esdras 10:7 How that Sion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sore?
Tobit 4:19 Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.
Judith 4:9 Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and with great vehemency did they humble their souls:
Additions to Esther 14:2 And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish and mourning: and instead of precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.
Ecclesiasticus 2:17 They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,
Ecclesiasticus 3:18 The greater thou art, the more humble thyself, and thou shalt find favour before the Lord.
Ecclesiasticus 7:11 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one which humbleth and exalteth.
Ecclesiasticus 7:17 Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.
Ecclesiasticus 12:11 Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away.
Ecclesiasticus 18:21 Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins shew repentance.
Ecclesiasticus 35:17 The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgment.
Ecclesiasticus 40:3 From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes;
Baruch 2:19 Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
Prayer of Azariah 1:16 Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted.
Prayer of Azariah 1:65 O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.