Bible verses about "depressed" | Moffatt

³¹ So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

¹ Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus; ² the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order to secure the fulfilment of the Law's requirements in our lives, as we live and move not by the flesh but by the Spirit. ⁵ For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit. ⁶ The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace. ⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot). ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. ¹⁰ On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives. ¹² Well then, my brothers, we owe a duty — but it is not to the flesh! It is not to live by the flesh! ¹³ If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live. ¹⁴ For the sons of God are those who are guided by the Spirit of God. ¹⁵ You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!", ¹⁶ it is this Spirit testifying along with our own spirit that we are children of God; ¹⁷ and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ — for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory. ¹⁸ Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed. ¹⁹ Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For creation was not rendered futile by its own choice, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject, ²¹ the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God. ²² To this day, we know, the entire creation sighs and throbs with pain; ²³ and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship. ²⁴ We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already? ²⁵ But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently. ²⁶ So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words, ²⁷ and He who searches the human heart knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, since the Spirit pleads before God for the saints. ²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything. ²⁹ For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son — that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood. ³⁰ Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified. ³¹ Now what follows from all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides! ³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits, ³⁴ who shall condemn? Will Christ? — the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us! ³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? ³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) ³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, ³⁹ no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;

¹ Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see. ² It was for this that the men of old won their record. ³ It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible. ⁴ It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still. ⁵ It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven, so that he never died (he was not overtaken by death, for God had taken him away). For before he was taken to heaven, his record was that he had satisfied God; ⁶ and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him. ⁷ It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith. ⁸ It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go. ⁹ It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise; ¹⁰ he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God. ¹¹ It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it — because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise. ¹² Thus a single man, though he was physically impotent, had issue in number like the stars in heaven, countless as the sand on the seashore. ¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.' ¹⁴ Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland. ¹⁵ If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back, ¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.) ¹⁷ It was by faith, when Abraham was put to the test, that he sacrificed Isaac, he was ready to sacrifice his only son, although he had received the promises ¹⁸ and had been told that it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned — ¹⁹ for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection. ²⁰ It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in connexion with the future. ²¹ It was by faith that, when Jacob was dying, he blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bending in prayer over the head of his staff. ²² It was by faith that Joseph at his end thought about the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders about his own bones. ²³ It was by faith that Moses was hidden for three months after birth by his parents, because they saw the child was beautiful, and had no fear of the royal decree. ²⁴ It was by faith that Moses refused, when he had grown up, to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures — for he had an eye to the Reward. ²⁷ It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched. ²⁸ It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born. ²⁹ It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea like dry land — and when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned. ³⁰ It was by faith that the walls of Jericho collapsed, after being surrounded for only seven days. ³¹ It was by faith that Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, as she had welcomed the scouts peaceably. ³² And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets — ³³ men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness won to strength, proved valiant in warfare, and routed hosts of foreigners. ³⁵ Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection; ³⁶ others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment — ³⁷ they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated ³⁸ (men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies. ³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain. ⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

¹³ May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

²⁶ you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus

²⁶ Be angry but do not sin; never let the sun set upon your exasperation,

³¹ Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice;

² Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

¹³ Is anyone of you in trouble? let him pray. Is anyone thriving? let him sing praise.

¹⁰ The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

² Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial, ³ sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.