Bible verses about "wholeness" | WPNT

¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; ¹⁸ they will remove ‘snakes’; and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them at all; they will lay hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

¹ Now it happened after this that He started going around town by town, village by village, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God, and the twelve were with Him; ² also certain women who had been healed of malignant spirits and infirmities: Mary (the one called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had gone out; ³ and Joanna the wife of Chuza, an official of Herod; and Susanna, and many others—these were providing for Him from their substance. ⁴ Now when a large crowd had gathered, with people coming to Him from town after town, He spoke by a parable: ⁵ “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed some fell along the road and it got trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. ⁶ And some fell on the rock ledge, and upon sprouting it withered, because it had no moisture. ⁷ And some fell among thorns, and springing up together the thorns choked it. ⁸ The rest fell into the good ground, and growing up it produced fruit a hundredfold.” Upon saying these things He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” ⁹ Then His disciples asked Him saying, “What does this parable mean?” ¹⁰ So He said: “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest only in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand’. ¹¹ “Now here is the parable: The seed is the Word of God. ¹² Those along the road are those who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, in order that they not be saved, having believed. ¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.” ¹⁶ Upon saying these things He called out: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear! No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but he sets it on a lamp stand, so that those who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ Further, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, nor anything concealed that will not be made known and come into the open. ¹⁸ So be careful how you hear: Because whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.” ¹⁹ Then His mother and brothers came to Him, and they could not get near Him because of the crowd. ²⁰ And it was told Him by some saying, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you”. ²¹ But in answer He said to them, “My mother and my brothers are these, the ones who hear the word of God and do it!” ²² Now it happened on one of those days that He got into a boat with His disciples; and He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake”. So they launched out. ²³ But as they sailed He fell asleep. A windstorm descended on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in jeopardy. ²⁴ So they came and awakened Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then He got up and rebuked the wind and the waves of water—and they stopped, and there was a calm! ²⁵ So He said to them, “Where is your faith?” But being terrified they marveled, saying to each other: “Who can this be? Because He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!” ²⁶ Then they sailed to the district of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. ²⁷ Well when He stepped out on the land, a certain man of that town met Him, who had had a demon for a long time—he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house, but among the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus he gave a yell, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!” ²⁹ Because He had commanded the unclean spirit to get out of the man (it had seized him many times—he would be bound with chains and shackles, being kept under guard; then bursting the bonds he would be driven by the demon into deserted places). ³⁰ Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion” (because many demons had gone into him). ³¹ And he kept imploring Him that He would not order them to go away into the Abyss. ³² Now a herd of many pigs was feeding there on the hillside; and they started begging Him that He would allow them to go into those; so He gave them permission. ³³ Then the demons exited the man and entered the pigs—and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned! ³⁴ Well when the herders saw what had happened they ran away and reported it in the town and in the countryside. ³⁵ So they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus; they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. ³⁶ Also, the eyewitnesses reported to them how the demonized man was healed. ³⁷ Then the whole multitude from the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, because they were overcome by fear. So He got into the boat and returned. ³⁸ Now the man from whom the demons had gone out had started begging Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹ “Return to your house and recount how much God has done for you”. So he went his way and proclaimed all over town how much Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰ Now it happened, when Jesus returned, that the crowd welcomed Him, because they were all waiting for Him. ⁴¹ And then, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue; he fell down at Jesus’ feet and started begging Him to come to his house, ⁴² because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. Now as He was going, the crowds were pressing against Him. ⁴³ And a woman—suffering with a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent her whole livelihood on physicians, but could not be healed by any— ⁴⁴ approaching from behind touched the border of His garment; and immediately the flow of her blood stopped! ⁴⁵ So Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said: “Master, the people are pressing against you and crowding in, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’” ⁴⁶ But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, because I noticed power going out from me”. ⁴⁷ Now when the woman saw that she could not hide, she came trembling, and falling down before Him she told Him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she was healed immediately. ⁴⁸ So He said: “Courage, daughter, your faith has healed you. Go into peace.” ⁴⁹ While He was still speaking, here came someone from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying to him: “Your daughter has died. Don’t bother the teacher.” ⁵⁰ But upon hearing it Jesus reacted by saying to him, “Don’t be afraid; just believe and she will be healed”. ⁵¹ When He arrived at the house, He allowed no one to go in except Peter, John, James, the father of the child, and her mother. ⁵² Now all were weeping and mourning for her; but He said, “Do not weep; she is not dead, but sleeping”. ⁵³ They started ridiculing Him, knowing that she had died. ⁵⁴ So He put them all outside, and grasping her hand He called, saying, “Child, arise!” ⁵⁵ Then her spirit returned, and she got right up! And He directed that she be given something to eat. ⁵⁶ Her parents were astonished, but He charged them to tell no one what had happened.

³ continually remembering before our God and Father your work for the Faith and your labor coming from the Love and your perseverance based on the Hope, our Lord Jesus Christ being their source, ⁴ knowing as we do, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen. ⁵ You see, our Gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with complete certainty (of course you know what sort of men we proved to be among you for your sake). ⁶ Yes you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the Word with the Holy Spirit’s joy, in spite of severe affliction, ⁷ so that you became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ That’s because the Word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia but also in every place—your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we do not need to say anything. ⁹ They themselves report about you what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to be slaves to the living and true God,

¹ Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; also, the ocean was no more. ² And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Take note, the tabernacle of God is with men and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people. Yes, God Himself will be with them. ⁴ And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain —they will exist no more because the first things have gone.” ⁵ Then He who sat on the throne said, “Take note, I make everything new!” And He says to me, “Write, because these words are true and faithful!” ⁶ Then He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give of the spring of the water of Life freely. ⁷ He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be God to him and he will be a son to me. ⁸ But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and sinners and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters, and all who are false, their portion is in the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which 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 with me saying, “Come, I will show you the woman, the Lamb’s bride.” ¹⁰ So he transported me in spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the splendor of God. Her radiance was similar to a most precious stone, like a crystalline jasper stone; ¹² she had a tremendous, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, namely the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel; ¹³ looking from the east, three gates, and from the north, three gates, and from the south, three gates, and from the west, three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names, of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ Now he who spoke with me had a measure, a golden reed, so that he might measure the city and her gates. ¹⁶ The city is laid out as a square; that is, her length is equal to her width. So he measured the city with the reed at twelve thousand and twelve stadia. Her length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured her wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man (which is of an angel). ¹⁸ The material of her wall was jasper, and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. ¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation had jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates are twelve pearls; each individual gate was composed of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. ²² I saw no sanctuary in her, because the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are her sanctuary. ²³ And the city has no need of the sun or the moon, that they should shine on her, because the very glory of God illumines her, and the Lamb is her light. ²⁴ And the nations will walk in her light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into her. ²⁵ Her gates will absolutely not be closed by day (and no night will exist there). ²⁶ And they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into her. ²⁷ But anything ‘common’ or anyone perpetrating an abomination or a lie will absolutely not enter her; only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb, ² in the middle of her street. And on either side of the river was a tree of life producing twelve fruits, yielding each month’s fruit monthly; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. ³ There will be no accursed thing there, but the throne of God and of the Lamb are in her, and His slaves will minister to Him. ⁴ They will see His face and His name is on their foreheads. ⁵ Night will not exist there and they will need neither lamp nor sunlight, because the Lord God illuminates them. And they will reign forever and ever. ⁶ Then he says to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent His angel to show to His slaves the things that must shortly take place. ⁷ Take note, I am coming swiftly! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.” ⁸ Now I, John, who heard and saw these things, when I had heard and seen I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things, ⁹ but he says to me, “Don’t! I am your fellow slave and of your brothers the prophets, those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” ¹⁰ Then he says to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. ¹¹ He who acts unjustly let him act unjustly still, and let the filthy one be filthy still, and let the righteous one still practice righteousness, and let the holy one still be sanctified.” ¹² “Take note, I am coming swiftly, and my reward is with me to give to each one according to his work. ¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, the First and the Last.” ¹⁴ (Blessed are those who do His commands, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, even to enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ Outside are the ‘dogs’ and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.) ¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you, in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning Star. ¹⁷ Both the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever hears say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever thirsts come; whoever wants to, let him take the water of life free of charge. ¹⁸ “I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If any one adds to them, may God add to him the seven plagues written in this book! ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God remove his share from the tree of life and out of the Holy City, that stand written in this book!” ²⁰ He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming swiftly!” Oh yes!! Come, Lord Jesus! ²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

¹ So summoning His twelve disciples He gave them authority over unclean spirits so as to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every illness.

¹² “Most assuredly I say to you, the one believing into me, he too will do the works that I do; in fact he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

¹⁷ Yes, He is before all, and in Him all things subsist.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all grace, who called you into His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen and ground you—after you have suffered a while.

²⁵ The one ‘loving’ his life will waste it, and the one ‘hating’ his life, in this world, will preserve it into eternal life.

¹ Now then, brothers, I exhort you, in view of God’s compassions, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, satisfying to God—your intelligent duty.

¹³ I can handle anything through Christ who strengthens me.

⁹ Because all the Fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him in bodily form, ¹⁰ and you are complete in Him who is the head over all rule and authority.

¹³ However, when He, the Spirit of the Truth, has come, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also communicate to you the things that are coming.

¹⁷ every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

¹⁰ The thief comes only in order to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

¹ James, a slave of God and of Sovereign Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the Dispersion: Greetings. ² Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ but let that endurance have a complete work, so that you may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing. ⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶ However, let him ask in faith, with no doubting, because he who doubts is like a sea wave driven and tossed by the wind— ⁷ such a man should not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Now the lowly brother should glory in his high position, ¹⁰ but the rich brother in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of wild grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with its burning heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its face perishes. Just so the rich man will be withered in his undertakings. ¹² A man who endures testing is blessed, because upon becoming approved he will receive the crown of the life that the Lord has promised to those loving Him. ¹³ Let no one, upon being tempted, say, “I am being tempted by God,” because God is untemptable by evil, so He Himself does not tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted by his own craving, being taken in tow and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the craving, upon conceiving, gives birth to sin, and the sin, upon completion, delivers death. ¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers: ¹⁷ every good giving and every perfect gift is from Above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed it, He brought us forth by a word of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of His products. ¹⁹ So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; ²⁰ because a man’s anger does not achieve God’s righteousness. ²¹ Therefore, laying aside all filthiness and overflow of evil, receive with meekness the implanted Word which is able to save your souls. ²² Further, become word doers and not just hearers, deceiving yourselves. ²³ Because if anyone is a law hearer and not a doer, the same is like a man observing his physical face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, then goes away and promptly forgets what he’s like. ²⁵ But he who looks carefully into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, he—not being a forgetful hearer but a work doer—he will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone among you thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity; to keep oneself unspotted from the world.