12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
*** Phillipians 2:12-13 ***
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6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
*** Phillipians 1:6 ***
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18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
*** Ephesians 2:18-20 ***
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16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
*** 2 Corinthians 4:16 ***
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13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
*** Acts 4:13 ***
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32 With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.
*** Daniel 11:32B ***
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6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
*** Colossians 2:6 ***
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27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
*** Acts 17:27 ***
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8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
*** Romans 14:8 ***
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18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
*** Isaiah 43:18-19 ***