Quotes About Spirituality

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.

In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for to this you were called as members of one body. And be thankful.