Luke 1:75 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁷⁵ And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

²¹ She will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for it is he who is to save his people from their sins."

⁴ Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.

¹⁰ For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

¹ Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God—as indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

⁷ God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

¹³ We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

⁹ He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

¹¹ For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men, ¹² training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world, ¹³ while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant, ¹⁵ but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

⁴ Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature. ⁵ For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, ⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love. ⁸ For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.