Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 55:11
So also will be the word that I speak--- it will not fail to do what I plan for it; it will do everything I send it to do.
Romans 2:16
And so, according to the Good News I preach, this is how it will be on that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge the secret thoughts of all.
2 Corinthians 4:3
For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost.
Galatians 1:8-12
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But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel that is different from the one we preached to you, may he be condemned to hell!
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We have said it before, and now I say it again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel that is different from the one you accepted, may he be condemned to hell!
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Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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Let me tell you, my friends, that the gospel I preach is not of human origin.
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I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.
Galatians 2:2
I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.
2 Thessalonians 2:14
God called you to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:8
Remember Jesus Christ, who was raised from death, who was a descendant of David, as is taught in the Good News I preach.
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1 Thessalonians 2:13
And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you God's message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.
1 Corinthians 4:20
For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of words but of power.
2 Corinthians 3:6
it is he who made us capable of serving the new covenant, which consists not of a written law but of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
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Psalm 10:2
The wicked are proud and persecute the poor; catch them in the traps they have made.
Psalm 10:3
The wicked are proud of their evil desires; the greedy curse and reject the LORD.
Mark 16:20
The disciples went and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and proved that their preaching was true by the miracles that were performed.]
Acts 11:21
The Lord's power was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts 16:14
One of those who heard us was Lydia from Thyatira, who was a dealer in purple cloth. She was a woman who worshiped God, and the Lord opened her mind to pay attention to what Paul was saying.
Romans 1:16
I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.
Romans 15:18
I will be bold and speak only about what Christ has done through me to lead the Gentiles to obey God. He has done this by means of words and deeds,
Romans 15:19
by the power of miracles and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. And so, in traveling all the way from Jerusalem to Illyricum, I have proclaimed fully the Good News about Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:24
but for those whom God has called, both Jews and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 2:4
and my teaching and message were not delivered with skillful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God's Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:5
Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plant, but it was God who made the plant grow.
2 Corinthians 10:4
The weapons we use in our fight are not the world's weapons but God's powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments;
2 Corinthians 10:5
we pull down every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-20
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and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.
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I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people,
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and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength
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which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.
Ephesians 2:4
But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,
Ephesians 2:5
that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:10
God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.
Ephesians 3:20
To him who by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for, or even think of:
Philippians 2:13
because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.
James 1:16-18
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Do not be deceived, my dear friends!
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Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.
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By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.
1 Peter 1:3
Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he gave us new life by raising Jesus Christ from death. This fills us with a living hope,
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John 16:7-15
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But I am telling you the truth: it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you.
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And when he comes, he will prove to the people of the world that they are wrong about sin and about what is right and about God's judgment.
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They are wrong about sin, because they do not believe in me;
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they are wrong about what is right, because I am going to the Father and you will not see me any more;
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and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.
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"I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear.
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When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of what he hears and will tell you of things to come.
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He will give me glory, because he will take what I say and tell it to you.
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All that my Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit will take what I give him and tell it to you.
Acts 2:33
He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.
Acts 10:44-46
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While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit came down on all those who were listening to his message.
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The Jewish believers who had come from Joppa with Peter were amazed that God had poured out his gift of the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles also.
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For they heard them speaking in strange tongues and praising God's greatness. Peter spoke up:
Acts 11:15-18
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And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came down on them just as on us at the beginning.
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Then I remembered what the Lord had said: 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
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It is clear that God gave those Gentiles the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, then, to try to stop God!"
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When they heard this, they stopped their criticism and praised God, saying, "Then God has given to the Gentiles also the opportunity to repent and live!"
1 Corinthians 3:16
Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!
1 Corinthians 12:7-11
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The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all.
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The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge.
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One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal.
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The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.
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But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.
2 Corinthians 6:6
By our purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God's servants---by the Holy Spirit, by our true love,
Galatians 3:2-5
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Tell me this one thing: did you receive God's Spirit by doing what the Law requires or by hearing the gospel and believing it?
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How can you be so foolish! You began by God's Spirit; do you now want to finish by your own power?
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Did all your experience mean nothing at all? Surely it meant something!
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Does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do what the Law requires or because you hear the gospel and believe it?
Galatians 5:5
As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith.
Galatians 5:22
But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:23
humility, and self-control. There is no law against such things as these.
Titus 3:5
he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.
Titus 3:6
God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Hebrews 2:4
At the same time God added his witness to theirs by performing all kinds of miracles and wonders and by distributing the gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his will.
1 Peter 1:12
God revealed to these prophets that their work was not for their own benefit, but for yours, as they spoke about those things which you have now heard from the messengers who announced the Good News by the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things which even the angels would like to understand.
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Colossians 2:2
I do this in order that they may be filled with courage and may be drawn together in love, and so have the full wealth of assurance which true understanding brings. In this way they will know God's secret, which is Christ himself.
Hebrews 2:3
How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true.
Hebrews 6:11
Our great desire is that each of you keep up your eagerness to the end, so that the things you hope for will come true.
Hebrews 6:18
There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.
Hebrews 6:19
We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary.
Hebrews 10:22
So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.
2 Peter 1:10
So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.
2 Peter 1:19
So we are even more confident of the message proclaimed by the prophets. You will do well to pay attention to it, because it is like a lamp shining in a dark place until the Day dawns and the light of the morning star shines in your hearts.
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1 Thessalonians 2:1-11
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Our friends, you yourselves know that our visit to you was not a failure.
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You know how we had already been mistreated and insulted in Philippi before we came to you in Thessalonica. And even though there was much opposition, our God gave us courage to tell you the Good News that comes from him.
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Our appeal to you is not based on error or impure motives, nor do we try to trick anyone.
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Instead, we always speak as God wants us to, because he has judged us worthy to be entrusted with the Good News. We do not try to please people, but to please God, who tests our motives.
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You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed---God is our witness!
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We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,
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even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you. But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.
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Because of our love for you we were ready to share with you not only the Good News from God but even our own lives. You were so dear to us!
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Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.
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You are our witnesses, and so is God, that our conduct toward you who believe was pure, right, and without fault.
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You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.
Acts 20:18
When they arrived, he said to them, "You know how I spent the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.
Acts 20:19
With all humility and many tears I did my work as the Lord's servant during the hard times that came to me because of the plots of some Jews.
Acts 20:33-35
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I have not wanted anyone's silver or gold or clothing.
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You yourselves know that I have worked with these hands of mine to provide everything that my companions and I have needed.
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I have shown you in all things that by working hard in this way we must help the weak, remembering the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, 'There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.' "
1 Corinthians 2:2-5
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For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross.
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So when I came to you, I was weak and trembled all over with fear,
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and my teaching and message were not delivered with skillful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God's Spirit.
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Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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For it seems to me that God has given the very last place to us apostles, like people condemned to die in public as a spectacle for the whole world of angels and of human beings.
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For Christ's sake we are fools; but you are wise in union with Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! We are despised, but you are honored!
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To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;
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we wear ourselves out with hard work. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
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when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words. We are no more than this world's garbage; we are the scum of the earth to this very moment!
1 Corinthians 10:33
Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.
2 Corinthians 4:1
God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.
2 Corinthians 4:2
We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.
2 Corinthians 6:3-10
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We do not want anyone to find fault with our work, so we try not to put obstacles in anyone's way.
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Instead, in everything we do we show that we are God's servants by patiently enduring troubles, hardships, and difficulties.
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We have been beaten, jailed, and mobbed; we have been overworked and have gone without sleep or food.
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By our purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God's servants---by the Holy Spirit, by our true love,
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by our message of truth, and by the power of God. We have righteousness as our weapon, both to attack and to defend ourselves.
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We are honored and disgraced; we are insulted and praised. We are treated as liars, yet we speak the truth;
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as unknown, yet we are known by all; as though we were dead, but, as you see, we live on. Although punished, we are not killed;
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although saddened, we are always glad; we seem poor, but we make many people rich; we seem to have nothing, yet we really possess everything.
Philippians 4:9
Put into practice what you learned and received from me, both from my words and from my actions. And the God who gives us peace will be with you.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
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You yourselves know very well that you should do just what we did. We were not lazy when we were with you.
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We did not accept anyone's support without paying for it. Instead, we worked and toiled; we kept working day and night so as not to be an expense to any of you.
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We did this, not because we do not have the right to demand our support; we did it to be an example for you to follow.
1 Timothy 4:12-16
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Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for the believers in your speech, your conduct, your love, faith, and purity.
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Until I come, give your time and effort to the public reading of the Scriptures and to preaching and teaching.
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Do not neglect the spiritual gift that is in you, which was given to you when the prophets spoke and the elders laid their hands on you.
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Practice these things and devote yourself to them, in order that your progress may be seen by all.
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Watch yourself and watch your teaching. Keep on doing these things, because if you do, you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
1 Peter 5:3
Do not try to rule over those who have been put in your care, but be examples to the flock.
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1 Corinthians 9:19-23
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I am a free man, nobody's slave; but I make myself everybody's slave in order to win as many people as possible.
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While working with the Jews, I live like a Jew in order to win them; and even though I myself am not subject to the Law of Moses, I live as though I were when working with those who are, in order to win them.
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In the same way, when working with Gentiles, I live like a Gentile, outside the Jewish Law, in order to win Gentiles. This does not mean that I don't obey God's law; I am really under Christ's law.
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Among the weak in faith I become weak like one of them, in order to win them. So I become all things to all people, that I may save some of them by whatever means are possible.
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All this I do for the gospel's sake, in order to share in its blessings.
2 Timothy 2:10
and so I endure everything for the sake of God's chosen people, in order that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.