The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty... For you shalt worship no other god.
Exodus 34:6-7,14 (2 Samuel 22:31-33,36-47)
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace... You shall call upon Me, and pray unto Me...
And seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 (Matthew 7:7-11; Luke 11:9-13)
The LORD spake... And He declared unto you His Covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments... that you might do them.
Deuteronomy 4:12-14
Know therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the LORD He is God in Heaven above,
and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Deuteronomy 4:35,39 (Isaiah 45:5-6,18,22)
And God spake... saying, I Am the LORD your God... You shall have no other gods before Me... You shall not make any... image...
not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them... You shall not take the Name of the LORD your God in vain... the LORD will not hold him guiltless.
Exodus 2:1-7 (Leviticus 19:12)
Remember the Sabbath day... keep it holy. Six days shall you labour and do all your work... The Seventh day is the Sabbath
of the LORD your God... For in six days the LORD made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is in them...
Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
Exodus 20:8-11
Honour your father and your mother; that your days may be prolonged in the land the LORD your God gives you... You shall not kill...
You shall not commit adultery... You shall not steal... You shall not covet your neighbour's house... your neighbour's wife... nor any thing
that is your neighbour's.
Exodus 20:12-17 (Luke 18:19-20)
If ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:5 (Deuteronomy 7:6-12)
And ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Exodus 19:6
Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:5 (Revelation 1:4-8)
Speak unto all the congregation... and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God Am Holy.
Leviticus 19:2 (Leviticus 20:7-8)
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God... the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?... For the temple of God is holy.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the LORD Am Holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be Mine.
Leviticus 20:26 (Romans 1:1)
Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?... the people rejoiced, for... they offered willingly to the LORD.
1 Chronicles 29:5,9 (2 Chronicles 5:1-5,11-14)
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost Who is in you... and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:19 (2 Corinthians 6:16,18)
God: Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling... according to His Own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
2 Timothy 1:9 (2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 3:13)
Ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God.
Isaiah 61:6 (Hebrews 3:1; Hebrews 12:2-3,14,28)
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD... for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He... covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Isaiah 61:10 (Romans 3:22-26)
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness... I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints will shout aloud for joy.
Psalm 132:9,16
Chosen... a royal priesthood, an holy nation... that ye should show forth the praises of Him Who hath called you... into His marvellous light.
1 Peter 2:9-10
[Consecrated by God-appointed sacrifice and shed blood for salvation]
The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17:11
Aaron shall offer his... sin offering... and make an atonement for himself, and for his household.
Leviticus 16:6,7-10,15-22
The First Covenant had... regulations of divine service and the earthly sanctuary. For there was a Tabernacle made... the first... called the Sanctuary.
And after the second veil, the Tabernacle... called the Holiest of all; which had... the Ark of the Covenant... And... the Mercy-seat.
Hebrews 9:1-5
Those things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went
the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.
Hebrews 9:6-8
But Christ being... an High Priest... by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle... neither by... blood of goats and calves, but by His Own Blood
He entered in Once into the Holy Place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:11-13
How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who by the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the Living God? And for this cause He is the Mediator of the New Testament.
Hebrews 9:14-15
Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram... kill the ram, and take of his blood... and sprinkle it upon Aaron... and he shall be hallowed.
Exodus 29:19-21 (Hebrews 12:24)
[Consecrated by God-appointed anointing for fully belonging to God]
Take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him... and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
Exodus 29:7,9 (Numbers 18:20; Deuteronomy 10:8-9)
I Am their inheritance: and... I Am their possession.
Ezekiel 44:28
[God gave Moses His Pattern for Acceptable Worship, And His Tabernacle]
Let them make Me a Sanctuary... According to all... the Pattern of the Tabernacle.
Exodus 25:1-9;10-40 (Exodus 26:1-37; Exodus 27:1-21)
[Later in History God gave His Pattern Details to Build His Temple in Jerusalem: to David]
David gave to Solomon his son the Pattern... of all that he had by the Spirit... Said David... The LORD made me understand in writing by His hand... all the... Pattern... Be strong and do it.
1 Chronicles 28:2-3,6,11-21 (1 Chronicles 29:1-2,9-20)
Behold... saith the LORD... I will make a new covenant... I will put My Law... in their hearts... for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 31:31,33-34 (Hebrews 8:7-12)
This Man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood... He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him,
seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them... An High Priest... Who Is Holy... made higher than the heavens... The Son Who is consecrated for evermore.
Hebrews 7:21-28
Christ is... in the Presence of God for us... He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself... Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
Hebrews 9:22-28
We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all... After He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the Right Hand of God.
Hebrews 10:10-14
[God anoints His people with His Holy Spirit]
Now He Who stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22
In Whom ye also trusted, after... ye heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after you believed, ye were sealed with that
Holy Spirit of promise... unto the praise of His glory.
Ephesians 1:13-14
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Corinthians 6:20
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God... ordained that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10,13,18-22
Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself.
Daniel 1:8
It is God Who worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13 (2 Thessalonians 1:11-12; Ephesians 3:20-21)
Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6 (John 6:35; Psalm 107:9; Mark 11:22-24)
I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit... and My blessing.
Isaiah 44:3 (Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 55:1-3,6-7)
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you... How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
Luke 11:9,13 (Matthew 18:19; John 14:13-17; John 16:23-24)
[Determined to even think in God’s way by His mighty power]
(For the weapons of our warfare are... mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) Casting down... every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (Romans 12:3)
Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me.
Acts 1:8 (Acts 2:4,38-39; Acts 4:10-12,31-33)
This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us... we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.
1 John 5:14-15,20
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also... No man can serve two masters...Ye cannot serve God and wealth.
Matthew 6:21,24 (1 Timothy 6:6-11,14)
Do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 (Romans 1:1)
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world... For all that is in the world... is not of the Father.
1 John 2:15-16 (Exodus 20:17)
Know ye not that… friendship of the world is enmity with God?
James 4:4,6-8 (Romans 8:5-9)
Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:2 (Matthew 22:37; Ephesians 4:22-24; Ephesians 5:8-10)
[The Lord Jesus' Prayer For Us To His Father]
I have given them Thy Word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not... I pray... keep them from the evil.
John 17:14-18
He ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 7:25 (1 John 2:1)
Be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
2 Corinthians 6:17 (2 Corinthians 7:1)
At the Name of JESUS every knee should bow.
Philippians 2:9-11 (Ephesians 1:21-22; Isaiah 45:22-23; Matthew 28:18)
Unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy Kingdom... And, Thou, Lord,
in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.
Hebrews 1:8-12 (Psalm 45:6-7; Psalm 102:12,25-27)
God... hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, Whom He hath appointed Heir of all things.
Hebrews 1:1-3 (Revelation 19:13,16)
Therefore let all... know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus... both Lord and Christ.
Acts 2:36 (Romans 14:9; John 20:31)
My son, give Me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe My ways.
Proverbs 23:26 (Proverbs 22:17-19; Proverbs 3:5)
Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:1 (1 Peter 1:18-19)
They... first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
2 Corinthians 8:5
Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God.
John 20:27-28,29 (Acts 9:4-6)
[Saul (renamed Paul) surrendered to Jesus as Lord]
Who art Thou, Lord? And He said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, Whom thou persecutest... And I said, What shall I do, Lord?
Acts 22:8-10
[Jesus accepted Saul’s surrender to Him]
Arise, and go... it shall be told thee… all things which are appointed for thee... God... hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know His will,... be His witness.
Acts 22:10-15
I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things... that I may win Christ.
Philippians 3:7-9
[Gird up your mind, to be living as obedient children of God]
As obedient children... according to the Holy One Who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct; because it is written, Be holy; because I Am Holy.
1 Peter 1:13-16 (Leviticus 19:2)
And why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Luke 6:46
Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father.
Matthew 7:21
Levi... left all, rose up, and followed Him.
Luke 5:27-28
This poor widow hath cast in more than they all... all the living that she had.
Luke 21:1-4
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac... accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead..
Hebrews 11:17-19 (Genesis 22:1-18; James 2:21-23)
By faith Moses... choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God... esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.
Hebrews 11:24-27
Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus... the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
John 12:3
The apostles... beaten... departed... rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His Name. And daily... they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Acts 5:40-42 (Acts 4:18-20,29-31)
[Stephen, full of faith continued preaching God's Word when threatened]
He, being full of the Holy Ghost... saw the glory of God, and Jesus... said... I see... the Son of man standing on the right hand of God...
They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Acts 7:55-60 (Acts 7:1-50)
[Obedient disciple at Damascus named Ananias]
The Lord said... Arise and go... and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul... Go... for he is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My Name before the Gentiles... kings, and the children of Israel.
Acts 9:10-22
That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings... I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:10-16
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9 (Ephesians 1:3-10; Ephesians 2:4-10)
[For Feast of Passover When He was twelve they went to Jerusalem]
As they returned, the boy Jesus remained in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know... not finding Him. They returned, looking for Him.
Luke 2:41-45
They found Him in the Temple sitting among the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them... Seeing Him, they were astonished... He said... Why did you look for Me?
Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?
Luke 2:46-52
[God the Father's Purpose Shown in Scripture: An Atonement by His Promised Saviour of the World]
Who has believed our report?... He is despised and rejected by men... Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows... He was wounded for our transgressions...
All we like sheep have gone astray... The LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:1-6 (Isaiah 53:7-12)
All they that see Me laugh Me to scorn... They pierced My hands and My feet... they look and stare upon Me. They part My garments among them, and cast lots.
Psalm 22:7-8,14-18 (Matthew 27:35-38,44-54)
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all... nations shall worship Thee. For this Kingdom is the LORD's... They shall... declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this.
Psalm 22:27-28,31 (Luke 23:33-48,50-56)
Come ye near unto Me, hear ye this... Now the Lord GOD, and His Spirit, hath sent Me. Thus saith the LORD thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I Am the LORD thy God.
Isaiah 48:16-17 (Isaiah 61:1-3)
[The Lord Jesus Always Taught and Did as God His Father Led Him]
I came down from Heaven, not to do Mine Own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me... This is the Father's will Who... sent Me, that everyone who seeth the Son,
and believeth on Him, may have Everlasting Life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:38-40 (John 3:16-18,36)
Search the Scriptures... they are they that testify of Me.
John 5:39
Then said Jesus... When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, Then shall ye know I Am He... I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father hath taught Me... He that sent Me is with Me...
for I do always those things that please Him.
John 8:28-29
God annointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.
Acts 10:38,42-43
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep... I lay it down of Myself...
and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father... My sheep
hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life... My Father
Who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck them out of My Father's hand.
I and the Father are One!
John 10:10-16,17-18,27-30
[Jesus came to pray in Gethsemene, before He suffered and died as Saviour]
He fell on His face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me;
yet not as I will, but as You will...
Matthew 26:36-39,42
Jesus... For the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-3 (Psalm 110:1)
He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a Name which is above every name: that at the Name of Jesus, every knee should bow... and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:8-11
In Whom also we have obtained an inheritance... according to the purpose of Him... In Whom also after you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise... unto the praise of His glory.
Ephesians 1:11-14