FORGIVING OTHERS

    If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
    Father will also forgive you.
    But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, nei-
    ther will your Father forgive your trespasses.
    MATTHEW 6:14, 15

    Then Peter came to Him and said, �Lord, how often
    shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
    Up to seven times?�
    Jesus said to him, �I do not say to you, up to seven
    times, but up to seventy times seven.�
    MATTHEW 18:21, 22

    Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against
    you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
    LUKE 17:3

    Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything
    against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in
    heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
    MARK 11:25

    Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another,
    if anyone has a complaint against another; even as
    Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
    COLOSSIANS 3:13

    Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended;
    but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
    behind and reaching forward to those things which are
    ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the
    upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
    PHILIPPIANS 3:13, 14

    Do not remember the former things,
    Nor consider the things of old.
    Behold, I will do a new thing,
    Now it shall spring forth;
    Shall you not know it?
    I will even make a road in the wilderness
    And rivers in the desert.
    ISAIAH 43:18, 19

    For we know Him who said, �Vengeance is Mine, I
    will repay,� says the Lord. And again, �The Lord will
    judge His people.�
    HEBREWS 10:30

    Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteous-
    ness� sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
    Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you,
    and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My
    sake.
    Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your
    reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets
    who were before you.
    MATTHEW 5:10-12


SPIRITUAL GROWTH

    Who are kept by the power of God through faith for
    salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
    In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little
    while, if need be, you have been grieved by various
    trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much
    more precious than gold that perishes, though it is
    tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and
    glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having
    not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him,
    yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and
    full of glory.
    1 PETER 1:5-8

    Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
    Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now
    and forever. Amen.
    2 PETER 3:18

    As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word,
    that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted
    that the Lord is gracious.
    1 PETER 2:2, 3

    For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our
    Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in
    heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you,
    according to the riches of His glory, to be strength-
    ened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
    that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith;
    that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be
    able to comprehend with all the saints what is the
    width and length and depth and height - to know
    the love of Christ which passes all understanding;
    that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
    EPHESIANS 3:14-19

    For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do
    not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be
    filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
    spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of
    the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every
    good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
    strengthened with all might, according to His glorious
    power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy.
    COLOSSIANS 1:9-11

    Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to
    them, that your progress may be evident to all.
    1 TIMOTHY 4:15

    Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary
    principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not
    laying again the foundation of repentance from dead
    works and of faith toward God.
    HEBREWS 6:1

    Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wis-
    dom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms
    and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in
    your hearts to the Lord.
    COLOSSIANS 3:16

    Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a
    worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
    dividing the word of truth.
    2 TIMOTHY 2:15

    The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
    He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
    PSALM 92:12

    But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mir-
    ror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into
    the same image from glory to glory, just as by the
    Spirit of the Lord.
    2 CORINTHIANS 3:18


PLEASING GOD

    Everyone who is called by My name,
    Whom I have created for My glory;
    I have formed him, yes, I have made him,
    This people I have formed for Myself;
    They shall declare My praise.
    ISAIAH 43:7, 21

    But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true
    worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth;
    for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
    God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
    worship in spirit and truth.
    JOHN 4:23, 24

    You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual
    house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacri-
    fices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
    But you are a chosen generation, a royal priest-
    hood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you
    may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out
    of darkness into His marvelous light.
    1 PETER 2:5, 9

    Indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and
    singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in
    praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted
    up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
    instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying:
    �For He is good, for His mercy endures forever,� that
    the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a
    cloud, so that the priests could not continue minis-
    tering because of the cloud; for the glory of the
    Lord filled the house of God.
    2 CHRONICLES 5:13, 14

    Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice
    of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving
    thanks to His name.
    But do not forget to do good and to share, for with
    such sacrifices God is well pleased.
    HEBREWS 13:15, 16

    You are worthy, O Lord,
    To receive glory and honor and power;
    For You created all things,
    And by Your will they exist and were created.
    REVELATION 4:11

    That you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing
    Him, being fruitful in every good work and increas-
    ing in the knowledge of God.
    COLOSSIANS 1:10

    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
    God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
    holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
    service.
    And do not be conformed to this world, but be
    transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you
    may prove what is that good and acceptable and per-
    fect will of God.
    ROMANS 12:1, 2

    Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers,
    intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all
    men �
    For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God
    our Savior.
    I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere,
    lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
    1 TIMOTHY 2:1, 3, 8