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Romans 15:30
Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers to God on my behalf.
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Philemon 1:23
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you greetings, and so do
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Colossians 1:7
You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,
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Colossians 1:22
But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him—
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1 Corinthians 2 6
We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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John 12:26
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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1 Corinthians 14 20
Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
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2 Corinthians 13 11
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice. Become mature, be encouraged, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
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Romans 15:14
My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
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Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
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Matthew 5:48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,
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Galatians 4:19
My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.
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Colossians 1:9
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
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Hebrews 5:14-6:1
But solid food is for the mature— for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God,
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James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
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Luke 22:44
Being in anguish, he prayed more fervently, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
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Galatians 1:10
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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Philippians 3:12-15
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.
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Colossians 4:1-2
Masters, deal with your slaves justly and fairly, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
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2 Peter 1 1
Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those who have received a faith equal to ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 5 23
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 5:7
During his earthly life, he offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
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Colossians 2:1-23
For I want you to know how greatly I am struggling for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me in person.I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of complete understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery— Christ.In him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with arguments that sound reasonable.For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him,being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,and you have been filled by him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,when you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses.He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is Christ.Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated by empty notions of their unspiritual mind.He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.If you died with Christ to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:“ Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.Although these have a reputation for wisdom by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.
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James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings.
