Bible Cross References
lacketh
2 Peter 1:5-7
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For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;
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to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;
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to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
Mark 10:21
Jesus looked straight at him with love and said, "You need only one thing. Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me."
Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me."
Galatians 5:6
For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
Galatians 5:13
As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.
James 2:14-26
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My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you?
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Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to eat.
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What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!"---if you don't give them the necessities of life?
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So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions, then it is dead.
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But someone will say, "One person has faith, another has actions." My answer is, "Show me how anyone can have faith without actions. I will show you my faith by my actions."
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Do you believe that there is only one God? Good! The demons also believe---and tremble with fear.
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You fool! Do you want to be shown that faith without actions is useless?
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How was our ancestor Abraham put right with God? It was through his actions, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar.
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Can't you see? His faith and his actions worked together; his faith was made perfect through his actions.
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And the scripture came true that said, "Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous." And so Abraham was called God's friend.
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You see, then, that it is by our actions that we are put right with God, and not by our faith alone.
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It was the same with the prostitute Rahab. She was put right with God through her actions, by welcoming the Israelite spies and helping them to escape by a different road.
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So then, as the body without the spirit is dead, also faith without actions is dead.
blind
John 9:40
Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, "Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?"
John 9:41
Jesus answered, "If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty."
2 Corinthians 4:3
For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost.
2 Corinthians 4:4
They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
1 John 2:9-11
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If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.
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If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.
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But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.
Revelation 3:17
You say, 'I am rich and well off; I have all I need.' But you do not know how miserable and pitiful you are! You are poor, naked, and blind.
that he
2 Peter 1:4
In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.
2 Peter 2:18-20
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They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.
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They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits---for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.
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If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
Romans 6:1-4
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What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase?
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Certainly not! We have died to sin---how then can we go on living in it?
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For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death.
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By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.
Romans 6:11-4
Ephesians 5:26
He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,
Hebrews 9:14
Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.
1 Peter 3:21
which was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 John 1:7
But if we live in the light---just as he is in the light---then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.