Quotes About Spirituality

What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you beforehand and make arrangements for the bountiful gift you had promised. This way, your gift will be prepared generously and not begrudgingly.

I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

And I know that this man—whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows—

The true marks of an apostle—signs, wonders, and miracles—were performed among you with great perseverance.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

For I certify to you, brothers, that the gospel I preached was not devised by man.

I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.