Bible verses about "wholeness" | Goodspeed
Mark 16:17-18
Luke 8:1-56
1 Soon afterward he went about among the villages and towns preaching and telling the good news of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve went with him,
2 and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness—Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven,
3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them with their means.
4 When a great throng was gathering and people were coming to him from one town after another, he said in his figurative way,
5 "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up.
6 And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.
7 And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.
8 And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"
9 His disciples asked him what this figure meant.
10 And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.
11 This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.
12 The ones by the path are those who hear, and then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved.
13 The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.
14 And what falls among the thorns means those who listen and pass on, and the worries and wealth and pleasures of life stifle them and they yield nothing.
15 But the seed in the good soil means those who listen to the message and keep it in good, true hearts, and yield unfailingly.
16 "Nobody lights a lamp and then covers it with a dish or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
17 For there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, nor kept secret that shall not be known and come to light.
18 So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."
19 His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd.
20 And the word came to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside; they want to see you."
21 He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!"
22 It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."
23 So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.
24 And they went to him and woke him up, and said to him, "Master! Master! We are lost!" Then he awoke and reproved the wind and the rough water, and they ceased, and there was a calm.
25 And he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and amazed, and said to one another, "Who can he be? For he gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey him!"
26 They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.
27 And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"
29 For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.
30 And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.
31 And they begged him not to order them off to the bottomless pit.
32 Now there was a large drove of pigs feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to give them leave to go into them. And he did so.
33 Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
34 When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.
35 And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.
36 And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.
37 Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.
38 The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,
39 "Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.
40 When Jesus returned, the people welcomed him, for they were all watching for him.
41 And a man named Jairus came up—he was leader of the synagogue—and he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,
42 because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he was going, the crowds of people almost crushed him.
43 And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom nobody had been able to cure,
44 came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once.
45 Jesus said, "Who was it who touched me?" And as everyone denied having done so, Peter said, "Master, the people are all around you and they are crowding you."
46 But Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I know that power passed from me."
47 When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.
48 And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace."
49 Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."
50 But Jesus heard it and said to him, "Do not be afraid; just have faith, and she will get well."
51 When he got to the house, he let no one go in with him but Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother.
52 And they were all wailing and beating their breasts for her. But he said, "Stop wailing! For she is not dead, she is asleep."
53 And they laughed at him, for they knew that she was dead.
54 But he grasped her hand and called out, "Get up, my child!"
55 And her spirit returned and she stood up immediately, and he directed them to give her something to eat.
56 And her parents were amazed, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-9
3 for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
4 For we know, brothers whom God so loves, that he has chosen you,
5 for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good.
6 And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, for though our message brought you great trouble, you welcomed it with joy inspired by the holy Spirit,
7 so that you set an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece.
8 For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it.
9 For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,
Revelation 21:1-22:21
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
2 And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.
3 I heard a loud voice from the throne say, "See! God's dwelling is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people and God himself will be with them,
4 and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away."
5 Then he who sat upon the throne said, "See! I am making everything new! Write this," he said, "for these words are trustworthy and true.
6 It is all over!" he told me, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end I will give anyone who is thirsty water without cost from the spring of the water of life.
7 He who is victorious will possess all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
8 But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
10 He carried me away in a trance to a great, high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God,
11 in all the glory of God. It shone with a radiance like that of some very precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal.
12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, which had carved upon them the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
13 There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
14 The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles.
15 The angel who talked with me had a gold measuring rod, with which to measure the city and its gates and wall.
16 The city was a square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city with his rod, and it was 12,000 furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height were the same.
17 He measured the wall and it was about 144 cubits (216 feet), as men measure, for that was the way the angel measured.
18 The material of the wall was jasper, but the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass.
19 The foundation stones of the wall of the city were ornamented with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate made of a single pearl. The principal street of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass.
22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp.
24 The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it.
25 Its gates will never be shut by day—for there will be no night there
26 and they will bring the splendor and the wealth of the heathen into it.
27 Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who indulges in abominable practices and falsehoods, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22:1-21
1 Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which issued from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
2 and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.
3 There will no longer be anything that is accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will worship him;
4 they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
5 There will no longer be any night and they will have no need of lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
6 "These words are trustworthy and true," he said to me; "For the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his slaves what must happen very soon.
7 See! I am coming very soon! Blessed is he who heeds the words of prophecy that are in this book."
8 It was I, John, who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I fell at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, to worship him.
9 But he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers the prophets and the men who heed the words of this book. Worship God!
10 "Do not seal up the words of prophecy that are in this book," he said to me, "for the time of their fulfilment is very near.
11 Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy."
12 "See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done.
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so as to have the right to approach the tree of life and to enter the gates of the city.
15 The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it.
16 "I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am of the line and family of David, I am the bright morning star."
17 "Come," say the Spirit and the bride. Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wants it come and take without cost living water.
18 I warn everyone who hears the message of prophecy in this book read, that if anyone adds anything to it, God will inflict upon him the plagues that are described in this book;
19 and if anyone removes from this book any of the prophetic messages it contains, God will remove from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city which are described in this book.
20 He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
21 The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ be with his people.
Matthew 10:1
1 Then he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power over the foul spirits so that they could drive them out, and so that they could heal any disease or illness.
John 14:12
12 I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father.
Colossians 1:17
17 He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.
1 Peter 5:10
10 And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.
John 12:25
25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
Romans 12:1
1 I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.
Philippians 4:13
13 I can do anything through him who gives me strength.
Colossians 2:9-10
John 16:13
13 but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.
James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.
John 10:10
10 A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.
James 1:1-27
1 James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered over the world.
2 You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,
3 for you know that the testing of your faith leads to steadfastness,
4 and steadfastness must have full play, so that you may be fully and perfectly developed without any defects.
5 If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.
6 But he must ask with faith, and without any doubt, for the man who doubts is like the billowing sea, driven and blown about by the wind.
7 Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord—
8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.
9 A brother of low position ought to be proud of his eminence,
10 but one who is rich ought to rejoice at being reduced in circumstances, for the rich will disappear like the wild flowers.
11 For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flowers wither, and all their beauty is gone. That is the way rich men will fade and die in the midst of their pursuits.
12 Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will be given the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
13 No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.
14 When anyone is tempted, it is by his own desire that he is enticed and allured.
15 Then desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is mature, it brings forth death.
16 Do not be misled, my dear brothers.
17 Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.
18 Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
19 You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to be angry,
20 for men's anger does not produce the uprightness God wishes.
21 So strip yourselves of everything that soils you, and of every evil growth, and in a humble spirit let the message that has the power to save your souls be planted in your hearts.
22 Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves.
23 For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him,
24 and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like.
25 But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.
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.