Bible verses about "religion" | Goodspeed

⁵⁰ But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die. ⁵¹ I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!" ⁵² This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life. ⁵⁴ Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that has come down out of heaven—not like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever." ⁵⁹ Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?" ⁶¹ But Jesus, knowing that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them, "Does this stagger you? ⁶² Then what if you see the Son of Man go up where he was before? ⁶³ The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life. ⁶⁴ Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him. ⁶⁵ And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' " ⁶⁶ In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you mean to go away too?" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and we believe and are satisfied that you are the Holy One of God." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select all twelve of you? And even of you, one is an informer." ⁷¹ He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though he was one of the Twelve, was going to betray him.

⁶ and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

¹ So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus. ² For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death. ³ For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, ⁴ so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane. ⁵ People who are controlled by the physical think of what is physical, and people who are controlled by the spiritual think of what is spiritual. ⁶ For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace. ⁷ For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it. ⁸ Those who are physical cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you. ¹² So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control, ¹³ for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live. ¹⁴ For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons. ¹⁵ It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children, ¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too. ¹⁸ For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.

⁶ For he will pay every man for what he has done. ⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life, ⁸ but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

¹⁰ For anyone who obeys the whole of the Law but makes one single slip is guilty of breaking it all.

⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

⁸ For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. ⁹ It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

¹ "But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven. ² So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get! ³ But when you give to charity, your own left hand must not know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you. ⁵ "When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get! ⁶ But when you pray, go into your own room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you. ⁷ And when you pray, do not repeat empty phrases as the heathen do, for they imagine that their prayers will be heard if they use words enough. ⁸ You must not be like them. For God, who is your Father, knows what you need before you ask him. ⁹ This, therefore, is the way you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered! ¹⁰ Your kingdom come! Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven! ¹¹ Give us today bread for the day, ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors. ¹³ And do not subject us to temptation, But save us from the evil one.' ¹⁴ For if you forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will forgive you too. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will not forgive you for your offenses. ¹⁶ "When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get. ¹⁷ But when you fast, perfume your hair and wash your face, ¹⁸ so that no one may see that you are fasting, except your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret, will reward you. ¹⁹ "Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them, ²⁰ but store up your riches in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them, and where thieves cannot break in and steal them. ²¹ For wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also. ²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be light, ²³ but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be! ²⁴ No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money. ²⁵ Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they? ²⁷ But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life? ²⁸ Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin, ²⁹ and yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them. ³⁰ But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith? ³¹ So do not worry and say, 'What shall we have to eat?' or 'What shall we have to drink?' or 'What shall we have to wear?' ³² For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this. ³³ But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides. ³⁴ So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Let each day be content with its own ills.

²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account. ²⁷ A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.

¹⁵ And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation. ¹⁶ He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.