Finishing What You
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Key
verses for series:
“Whatever you do, work
heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.”
Colossians 3:23 ESV
“And let us not grow
weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
Galatians 6:9 ESV
“You crown the year
with Your bounty;
Your wagon tracks
overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65:11 ESV
“I hasten and do not
delay to keep Your commandments.”
Psalm 119:60 ESV
How
to use this guide:
We
have organized over 100 helpful verses for finishing what you start to stay on
task in completing your work, goals and vision.
Use these passages for daily study, motivation and encouragement.
Meditate
on key words or phrases as to the direction God is/was leading, such as: “rise
up and go” and “with all eagerness” for leading or prompting from the Holy Spirit.
The
scriptures are divided into three listing for convenience:
If
“taken from” is noted, refer to the entire passage listed for complete
scripture or chapter.
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Acts 9:10-12 ESV
Now
there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a
vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.” And the Lord said to him,
“Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for
a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, and he has seen in a
vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might
regain his sight.”
Acts 17:11 ESV
Now
these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word
with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were
so.
Acts 20:24 ESV
But
I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may
finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to
testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Colossians 3:23 ESV
Whatever
you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.
Paul,
called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother
Sosthenes, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in
Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place
call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to
you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to
my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ
Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all
knowledge.
Do
you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the
prize? So, run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in
all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable
(one).
Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold,
the new has come.
For
our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become
the righteousness of God.
Now therefore perform the
doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will,
so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
10)
And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have
begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11)
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a
readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that
which ye have.
12)
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to
that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
2 Corinthians 8:10-12 ESV (taken from)
And
in this matter, I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started
not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as
well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing
it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable
according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
So
now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be
matched by your completing it out of what you have.
For
I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia,
saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up
most of them.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV
Better
is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better
than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 KJV
Better is the
end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in
spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV
For
by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it
is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:9 ESV
Not
a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV
For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Let
all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you,
along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Exodus 4:18-31 ESV (taken
from)
Moses
went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back
to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said
to Moses, “Go in peace.” And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt,
for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” So, Moses took his wife
and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt.
And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. And the Lord said to Moses, “When
you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I
have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let
the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my
firstborn son.
Exodus 5:1-23 ESV (taken
from)
Afterward
Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my
people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” But Pharaoh
said, “Who is the Lord,
that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and
moreover, I will not let Israel go.” Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews
has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness
that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with
pestilence or with the sword.” But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and
Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your
burdens.” And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and
you make them rest from their burdens!”
Ezra 4:4-6 ESV (taken
from)
Then
the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to
build and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the
days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an
accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 6:14 ESV
And
the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai
the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by
decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes
king of Persia.
Ezra 6:14 KJV
And
the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of
Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and
finished it, according to the commandment of the God of
Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes
king of Persia.
Galatians 2:20 ESV
I
have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 6:9 ESV
And
let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do
not give up.
Genesis 1:1 ESV
In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 2:1-3 ESV
Thus,
the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the
seventh day God finished His work that He had done, and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work that He had done. So, God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done
in creation.
Genesis 2:1–3 KJV
1)
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2)
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on
the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
3)
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had
rested from all His work which God created and made.
Haggai 1:9-11 ESV (taken
from)
You
looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I
blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in
ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. Therefore, the
heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its
produce. And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the
grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and
beast, and on all their labors.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV
For
the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and
discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 10:35 ESV
Therefore,
do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 10:38-39 ESV (taken
from)
But
my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no
pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed,
but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV
Now
faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV (taken
from)
Now
faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand
that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not
made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more
acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous,
God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he
died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see
death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken,
he was commended as having pleased God.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And
without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to
God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV
Therefore,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside
every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV
Looking
to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set
before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right
hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-3 ESV
Therefore,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside
every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance
the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of
our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him
who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not
grow weary or fainthearted.
Hebrews 12:7 ESV
It
is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For
what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Isaiah 10:23 ESV
For
the Lord God of
hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
Isaiah 10:23 KJV
For
the Lord GOD of
hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Isaiah 43:1-28 ESV (taken
from)
But
now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have
redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through
the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not
overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the
flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One
of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange
for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I
give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I
am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I
will gather you.
Isaiah 58:13-14 ESV
“If
you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy
day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor
it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the
earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of
the Lord has
spoken.”
James 1:3 ESV
For
you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1:12 ESV
Blessed
is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he
will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.
James 1:22 ESV
But
be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 2:17 ESV
So
also, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
James 2:14-18 ESV
(taken from)
What
good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking
in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and
filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
So also, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will
say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your
works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:26 ESV
For
as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is
dead.
Jeremiah 29:1-32 ESV (taken
from)
These
are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to
the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all
the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials
of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from
Jerusalem. The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and
Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said: “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to
Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
For
I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not
for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
1 John 1:9 ESV
If
we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 3:2 ESV
This
man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a
teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is
with Him.”
John 3:16-17 ESV
For
God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.
John 4:34 ESV
Jesus
said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to accomplish His
work.”
John 4:34 KJV
Jesus
saith unto them, “My meat is to do the will of Him that
sent me, and to finish His work.”
John 5:24 ESV
Truly,
truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has
eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to
life.
John 14:27 ESV
Peace
I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to
you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 17:1-26 ESV
(taken from)
When
Jesus had spoken these words, He lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said,
“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify You,
since You have given Him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all
whom You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they know You the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on earth, having
accomplished the work that You gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify Me in Your
own presence with the glory that I had with You before the world existed.
John 19:28-30 ESV
After
this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the
Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a
sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to His mouth. When
Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished,” and He bowed His
head and gave up His spirit.
Luke 14:28-30 ESV
For
which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the
cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a
foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying,
‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Mark 1:15 ESV
And
saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and
believe in the gospel.”
Matthew 11:28 ESV
Come
to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 21:28 ESV
What
do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go
and work in the vineyard today.’
Matthew 21:28-32 ESV
(taken from)
What
do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go
and work in the vineyard today.’ And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward
he changed his mind and went. And he went to the other son and said the same.
And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did the will of
his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you,
the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him,
but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw
it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV
(taken from)
“For
it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted
to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another
one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received
the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents
more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had
received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.”
Matthew 25:34-36 ESV
Then
the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for You from the foundation of the world. For I
was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a
stranger and you welcomed Me, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and
you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.’
Nehemiah 2:1-20 ESV
(taken from)
In
the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was
before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad
in his presence. And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are
not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much
afraid. I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face
be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its
gates have been destroyed by fire?” Then the king said to me, “What are you
requesting?” So, I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, “If it
pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you
send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.”
Nehemiah 6:15-16 ESV
So,
the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two
days. And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were
afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work
had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Nehemiah 6:15–16 KJV
15)
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the
month Elul, in fifty and two days.
16)
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all
the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were
much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought
of our God.
1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV
(taken from)
Peter,
an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus
Christ and for sprinkling with His blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to
you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His
great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is
imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's
power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in
the last time.
1 Peter 1:1–25 KJV
1)
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2)
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification
of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:
Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3) Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us
again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and
undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5) Who are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6) Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now
for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7) That the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might
be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8) Whom having not seen, you love; in whom,
though now you see Him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory:
9) Receiving the end of your faith, even the
salvation of your souls.
10) Of which salvation the prophets have
inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should
come unto you:
11) Searching what, or what manner of time
the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified
beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto
themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,
be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at
the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14) As obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15) But as He which hath called you is holy,
so be holy in all manner of conversation;
16) Because it is written, be holy; for I am
holy.
17) And if you call on the Father, who
without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time
of your sojourning here in fear:
18) Forasmuch as you know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19) But with the precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20) Who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21) Who by him do believe in God, that raised
him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in
God.
22) Seeing you have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23) Being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.
24) For all flesh is as grass, and
all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower
thereof falls away:
25) But the word of the Lord endures forever.
And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV
Casting
all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.
Philippians 1:5 ESV
Because
of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
Philippians 1:6 ESV
And
I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion
at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6 KJV
Being
confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will
perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 3:5 ESV
Circumcised
on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew
of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee.
Brothers,
I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting
what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward
the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6 ESV
Do
not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4:7 ESV
And
the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:8 ESV
Finally,
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever
is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence,
if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:13 ESV
I
can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:19 ESV
And
my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in
Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 13:19 ESV
A
desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an
abomination to fools.
Proverbs 13:19 KJV
The
desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to
fools to depart from evil.
Psalm 28:1 ESV
Of
David. To you, O Lord,
I call; My rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like
those who go down to the pit.
Psalm 65:11 ESV
You
crown the year with Your bounty; Your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psalm 119:60 ESV
I
hasten and do not delay to keep Your commandments.
Psalm 119:60 KJV
I
made haste, and delayed not to keep Thy commandments.
Revelation 1:1 ESV
The
revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the
things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending His angel to His
servant John.
Revelation 3:2 ESV
Wake
up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your
works complete in the sight of my God.
Revelation 3:2 KJV
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which
remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect
before God.
Romans 3:23 ESV
For
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 8:11 ESV
If
the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised
Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His
Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:18–25 KJV
18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us.
19) For the earnest expectation of the
creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20) For the creature was made subject to
vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in
hope,
21) Because the creature itself also shall be
delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the
children of God.
22) For we know that the whole creation groans
and travails in pain together until now.
23) And not only they, but
ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body.
24) For we are saved by hope: but hope that
is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why doth he yet hope for?
25) But if we hope for that we see not, then do
we with patience wait for it.
Romans 8:18-25 ESV (taken
from)
For
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing
with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager
longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to
futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the
creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the
freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole
creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
Romans 8:29 ESV
For
those whom He foreknew H also predestined to be conformed to the image of His
Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 12:1 ESV
I
appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual worship.
Romans 12:2 ESV
Do
not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable
and perfect.
Romans 15:13 ESV
May
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the
power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
1 Timothy 6:20 ESV
O
Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and
contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
For
God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:14 ESV
By
the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
2 Timothy 2:5 ESV
An
athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
2 Timothy 3:5 ESV
Having
the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV
All
Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for
correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 4:6-8 ESV
For
I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure
has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept
the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which
the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me
but also to all who have loved His appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7 ESV
I
have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:10 ESV
For
Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica.
Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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Thank you Jingo. I pray that it encourages people to keep going in achieving the goals the Lord has set before them. May the Lord richly bless you!
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