Sunday Morning: May 9, 1999
Text: 2 Peter 1:5-7 "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7. And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity [love]."
2 Peter 1:10 "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2 Peter 1:11 "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now abideth faith, hope, charity [love], these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
1 Peter 1:3-5 "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 (for/leading to) an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation (soul verse 9) ready to be revealed in the last time."
Colossians 1:27 "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"
Acts 24:26 "He (Felix) hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him."
2 Peter 1:8 "For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 15:13 "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing [present active], that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
2 Peter 3:14 "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless."
1 Thessalonians 4:7 "For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."
Ephesians 4:1 "I therefore, &ldots; beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation (calling) wherewith ye are called,"
Ephesians 4:4 "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;"
1 Thessalonians 2:12 "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory."
Ephesians 1:15,17-18 "Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints," (I prayed verse 16)
"17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,"
Romans 15:4 "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort [exhortation] of the scriptures might have hope."
1 Thessalonians 4:4 "That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;"
Hebrews 13:5 "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
Romans 8:24-25 "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, 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 2:6-7 "Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:"
Revelation 14:12 "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
Philippians 1:21 "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
1 Timothy 4:7-8 "&ldots;exercise (practice naked) thyself rather unto godliness. 8. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."
2 Peter 2:9 "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:"
James 1:12 "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried [approved], he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."
1 Corinthians 10:13 "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
1 Peter 1:21-22 "Who by him (Christ) do believe [faithful ones] in God, that raised him (Christ) up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope (of glory) might be in God. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
1 John 3:15 "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."
1 John 4:20-21 "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also."
1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now abideth faith, hope, charity [love], these three; but the greatest of these is charity [love]."
1 Corinthians 13:2 "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing."
Galatians 5:5-6 "For we through the Spirit (of adoption) wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
Hebrews 3:6 "But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."
Hebrews 10:23 "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith [elpis, hope] without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)"
Hebrews 10:36 "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."