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Romans 15:30
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
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Philemon 1:23
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
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Colossians 1:7
just as you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,
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Colossians 1:22
yet He has now reconciled you in His body of flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—
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1 Corinthians 2 6
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
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John 12:26
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
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1 Corinthians 14 20
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
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2 Corinthians 13 11
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, mend your ways, be comforted, be like minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
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Romans 15:14
And concerning you, my brothers and sisters, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
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Colossians 1:28
We proclaim Him, admonishing every person and teaching every person with all wisdom, so that we may present every person complete in Christ.
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Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, 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, blameless with great joy,
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Galatians 4:19
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—
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Colossians 1:9
For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it, have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
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Hebrews 5:14-6:1
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward 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. A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much.
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Luke 22:44
And being in agony, He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground].
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Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a bond servant of Christ.
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Philippians 3:12-15
Not that I have already grasped it all or have already become perfect, but I press on if I may also take hold of that for which I was even taken hold of by Christ Jesus.Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.Therefore, all who are mature, let’s have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that to you as well;
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Colossians 4:1-2
Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;
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2 Peter 1 1
Simon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by 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 entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 5:7
In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior.
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Colossians 2:1-23
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have in your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and that they would attain to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.I say this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.For even though I am absent in body, I am nevertheless with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your orderly manner and the stability of your faith in Christ.Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.See to it that there is no one who takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception in accordance with human tradition, in accordance with the elementary principles of the world, rather than in accordance with Christ.For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over every ruler and authority;and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,having been 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 your wrongdoings and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our wrongdoings,having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.Therefore, no one is to act as your judge in regard to food and drink, or in respect to a festival or a new moon, or a Sabbath day—things which are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.Take care that no one keeps defrauding you of your prize by delighting in humility and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,and not holding firmly to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,“ Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”( which all refer to things destined to perish with use)— in accordance with the commandments and teachings of man?These are matters which do have the appearance of wisdom in self made religion and humility and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.
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James 1:1
James, a bond servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
