Bible verses about "religion" | Godbey

⁵⁰ this is the bread coming down from heaven, that any one may eat of it, and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread, having come down from heaven; if any one may eat of me the bread, he will live forever: and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. ⁵² Then the Jews were contending with one another, saying, How is this One able to give unto us His flesh to eat? ⁵³ Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Unless you may eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up in the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. ⁵⁶ The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father; truly the one eating me, shall also live through me. ⁵⁸ He is the bread having come down from heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died: the one eating this bread shall live forever. ⁵⁹ And He spoke these things in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Then many of His disciples, hearing, said, This is a hard sermon; who is able to hear it? ⁶¹ And Jesus knowing in Himself that His disciples are murmuring concerning it, said to them, Does this offend you? ⁶² If then you may see the Son of man ascending up, where He was formerly? ⁶³ The Spirit is the One who creates life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ But there are certain ones of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning that there are certain ones not believing, and there is one going to betray Him. ⁶⁵ And He said, Therefore I have said unto you, that no one is able to come unto me, unless it may have been given unto him of the Father. ⁶⁶ Moreover from this many of His disciples went back, and walked with Him no more. ⁶⁷ Then Jesus said to the twelve, Do you also wish to go away? ⁶⁸ Simon Peter responded to Him, Lord, to whom shall we go away? thou hast the words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ we have believed and we know that thou art the Holy One of God. ⁷⁰ Jesus responded to them, Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is devilish? ⁷¹ But He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon, for he was going to betray Him, being one of the twelve.

⁶ who also rendered us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit creates life.

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. ² For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death. ³ For there was an impotency of the law, in which it was weak through depravity, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the sin of depravity and for sin, condemned sin in depravity: ⁴ in order that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to depravity, but according to the spirit. ⁵ For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit: ⁶ for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be. ⁸ But those being in depravity are not able to please God. ⁹ But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you. ¹² Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity. ¹³ For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself witnesses along with our spirit, that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us.

⁶ who will give to each one according to his works: ⁷ to those indeed who with patience of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: ⁸ but to those who are of self-seeking, and disobedient to the truth, but obedient to unrighteousness, there are indignation and wrath.

¹⁰ For whosoever may keep the whole law, and fail in one item, has become guilty of all.

⁵ not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ not of works, in order that no one may boast:

¹ But take heed that you do not your righteousness before the people, in order to be seen by them: else you have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens: ² therefore when you may do alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be glorified by the people: truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ³ But thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: ⁴ in order that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee openly. ⁵ And when you pray, be not like the hypocrites: because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, in order that they may appear unto the people. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ⁶ But when thou mayest pray, enter into thy closet, and having closed thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly. ⁷ And praying do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard in their much speaking. ⁸ Therefore be not like unto them: for your Father knows of what things you have need, before you ask him. ⁹ Therefore pray ye after this manner: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be hallowed: ¹⁰ let thy kingdom come: let thy will be done, as in heaven, even so upon earth: ¹¹ give us this day our daily bread: ¹² and forgive us our debts, as we have also forgiven our debtors: ¹³ lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ¹⁴ For if you may not forgive the people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will not forgive you: ¹⁵ and if you do not forgive the people, your Father will not forgive you your trespasses. ¹⁶ And when you may fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a sad contenance: for they disfigure their faces, in order that they may appear unto the people fasting. Truly I say unto you, They exhaust their reward. ¹⁷ But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; ¹⁸ in order that thou mayest not appear unto the people fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly. ¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal: ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt, and thieves do not break through and steal: ²¹ for where your treasure is, there will be your heart also. ²² For the light of the body is the eye. If thine eye may be clear, thy whole body will he lighted. ²³ If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great. ²⁴ No one is able to serve two masters: for he will hate the one, and love the other; or cleave to the one, and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and mammon. ²⁵ Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment? ²⁶ Look unto the fowls of heaven, how they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not more excellent than they? ²⁷ And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence? ²⁸ And why are you solicitous concerning raiment? Know the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. ²⁹ But I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these. ³⁰ But if God so clothed the verdure of the field, existing today and tomorrow cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith? ³¹ Therefore be not solicitous, saying, What can we eat? or what can we drink? or with what can we be clothed? ³² For after all these things the heathen were seeking; for your heavenly Father knoweth that you need all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. ³⁴ Therefore be not solicitous unto the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

²⁶ But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain. ²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

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