4. BIBLE REFERENCESTO CONSIDER
Proverbs 4:23-Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Psalm 118:8-It is better to trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence in man.
Matthew 7:16-You will know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
6. BIBLE REFERENCESTO CONSIDER
Mark 8:34-36-When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples
also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to
save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the
gospel’s will save it. 36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole
world, and loses his own soul?
Matthew 20:16-So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but
few chosen.”
Acts 20:28-Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which
the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He
purchased with His own blood.
8. BIBLE REFERENCESTO CONSIDER
James 2:18 -but someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me
your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Matthew 23:25-26-Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse
the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and [l]self-
indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the
outside of them may be clean also.
Romans 5:11-And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
10. BIBLE REFERENCESTO CONSIDER
Matthew 6:33-But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all
these things shall be added to you.
Psalm 37:4- Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of
your heart.
Matthew 22:37-38-Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’This is the first and great
commandment.
12. BIBLE REFERENCESTO CONSIDER
I John 4:19-We love Him because He first loved us.
Romans 13:8-Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he
who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Mark 12:30-And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your
soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
This is the first commandment.
14. BIBLE REFERENCESTO CONSIDER
Mark 11:23-.For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be
removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes
that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Proverbs 18:21-Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Romans 4:17-(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the
presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls
those things which do not exist as though they did;
Hebrews 11:6-ut without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to
God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
seek Him.
15. THE POWER OFTHEWORD OF GOD
Matthew 10:34-Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I
did not come to bring peace but a sword.
Hebrews 4:12- For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5-For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in
God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing
that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ,