Quotes About Transformation

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because Godís seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

So I took the small scroll from the angelís hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

The beast that was, and now is not, is an eighth king, who belongs to the other seven and is going into destruction.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”