Bible verses about "reflecting" | MNT

¹ I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

¹⁰ "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest. ¹¹ "For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

¹² For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

¹ Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ. ² Indeed I praise you for remembering me in everything, and because you are holding fast to the traditions just as you received them. ³ But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ. ⁴ Every man who prays or prophesies with head veiled dishonors his Head; ⁵ but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven. ⁶ If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled. ⁷ A man, indeed, ought not to have his head veiled, for he is an image and glory of God; but woman is a glory of man. ⁸ For it is not man who was made from woman, but woman was made from man. ⁹ And man was not created for woman, but woman for man. ¹⁰ For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels. ¹¹ However, in the Lord neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman; ¹² for just as the woman was made from the man, so also is the man born of the woman, while they both come from God. ¹³ Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled. ¹⁴ Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair, ¹⁵ but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil. ¹⁶ If, however, any one is inclined to be disputatious regarding such a custom, let him know that neither I nor the churches of God hold to such a custom. ¹⁷ But in giving you the following instructions, I cannot praise you; your solemn assemblies do more harm than good. ¹⁸ To begin with, I am told—and I believe there is some truth in it—that when you meet at a church there are divisions among you. ¹⁹ For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known. ²⁰ Again, when you meet together, there is no true eating of the Lord's Supper; ²¹ for each one of you begins to eat his own supper; one goes hungry, while another gets drunk. ²² What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you. ²³ For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread, ²⁴ and when he had given thanks, he broke it, saying, "This is my body, broken for you; this do in memory of me." ²⁵ In the same way also, he took the cup after supper, saying. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in memory of me." ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming your Lord's death until he come. ²⁷ So he that eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthy must answer for a sin against the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ Let each man scrutinize himself, and thus let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For whoever eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks condemnation to himself. ³⁰ This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep. ³¹ If however, we were judging ourselves aright, we should not now be condemned; ³² but through our condemnation by the Lord, we are trained so that we may not be condemned; ³³ So, my brothers, whenever you come together for this meal, wait for one another. ³⁴ If any one is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings do not bring condemnation upon you. The other matters I will adjust when I come.

¹ Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children, ² and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness." ³ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them; ⁴ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience; ⁷ therefore do not become sharers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord. ⁹ Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth. ¹⁰ Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them. ¹² For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret; ¹³ but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light. ¹⁴ For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!" ¹⁵ See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men. ¹⁶ Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil. ¹⁷ For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is. ¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit, ¹⁹ when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord; ²⁰ and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ. ²² Wives likewise to their husbands as to the Lord, ²³ because a husband is the head of his wife even as Christ is head of the church, his body, which he saves. ²⁴ But as the church submits itself to Christ, so also wives to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, ²⁷ so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless. ²⁸ That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it as Christ does the church; ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. ³² There is a deep mystery here—I am speaking of Christ and his church. ³³ But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.