Christian walk life application bible study

I want to be sure that people are careful and mindful of the purposes of our being saved. I also want people to be mindful of their Christian walk, too, that they do all things to glorify God. I hope people find this encouraging. It is pretty long but this is intended as a bible study so it can be done over bit by bit, as there is A LOT of scripture included. I am going to start this discussion and study in Ephesians chapter 2, which states how we were dead by our trespasses but God saved us by His grace and mercy :

(Ephesians 2:1)  And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

 

(Ephesians 2:2)  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--

 

(Ephesians 2:3)  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

 

(Ephesians 2:4)  But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

 

(Ephesians 2:5)  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--

 

(Ephesians 2:6)  and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

 

(Ephesians 2:7)  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

 

(Ephesians 2:8)  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

 

(Ephesians 2:9)  not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

 

(Ephesians 2:10)  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

 

(Ephesians 2:11)  Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--

 

(Ephesians 2:12)  remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

 

(Ephesians 2:13)  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

 

(Ephesians 2:14)  For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

 

(Ephesians 2:15)  by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one peace,

(Ephesians 2:16)  and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

 

(Ephesians 2:17)  And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

 

(Ephesians 2:18)  For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

 

(Ephesians 2:19)  So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

 

(Ephesians 2:20)  built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

 

(Ephesians 2:21)  in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

 

(Ephesians 2:22)  In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

 

The next place I am going to go is 2 Peter chapter 3 where He does say the Lord wants all to come to repentance but he also says that people are to live holy lives as much as we are capable of(we all are imperfect, however)

(2Peter 3:8)  But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

 

(2 Peter 3:9)  The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

 

(2 Peter 3:10)  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

 

(2 Peter 3:11)  Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

 

(2 Peter 3:12)  waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

 

(2 Peter 3:13)  But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

 

(2 Peter 3:14)  Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

 

(2 Peter 3:15)  And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

 

(2 Peter 3:16)  as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

 

The first six verses in 1 Timothy 2 say that God wants all to be saved and come to the truth about the Lord Jesus.

(1 Timothy 2:1)  First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

 

(1 Timothy 2:2)  for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

 

(1 Timothy 2:3)  This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

 

(1 Timothy 2:4)  who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

 

(1 Timothy 2:5)  For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

 

(1 Timothy 2:6)  who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

 

The next verses from Romans 3  say there is no distinction between any we are all guilty of sin, but Jesus also came to justify all and this is by faith and NOT by works(which strengthens what is said in Ephesians

(Romans 3:21)  But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it--

 

(Romans 3:22)  the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

 

(Romans 3:23)  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

 

(Romans 3:24)  and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

 

(Romans 3:25)  whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

 

(Romans 3:26)  It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

 

(Romans 3:27)  Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

 

(Romans 3:28)  For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

 

(Romans 3:29)  Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

 

(Romans 3:30)  since God is one--who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

 

(Romans 3:31)  Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

 

Romans chapter 6 stresses the fact that while we are indeed under grace we are not to continue to live in sin that grace may about, but do our best, since we have been crucified with Jesus as the text says:

(Romans 6:1)  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

 

(Romans 6:2)  By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

 

(Romans 6:3)  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

 

(Romans 6:4)  We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

 

(Romans 6:5)  For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

 

(Romans 6:6)  We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

 

(Romans 6:7)  For one who has died has been set free from sin.

 

(Romans 6:8)  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

 

(Romans 6:9)  We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

 

(Romans 6:10)  For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.

 

(Romans 6:11)  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

 

(Romans 6:12)  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

 

(Romans 6:13)  Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

 

(Romans 6:14)  For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

 

(Romans 6:15)  What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

 

(Romans 6:16)  Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

 

(Romans 6:17)  But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

 

(Romans 6:18)  and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

 

(Romans 6:19)  I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

 

(Romans 6:20)  For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

 

(Romans 6:21)  But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

 

(Romans 6:22)  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

 

(Romans 6:23)  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

We are saved for good works, and it is not easy for in this passage in Matthew 7 we are reminded to take the narrow way and not the broad road, to beware of false prophets, to stay within God’s will and to hear His word

(Matthew 7:13)  "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

 

(Matthew 7:14)  For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

 

(Matthew 7:15)  "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

 

(Matthew 7:16)  You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

 

(Matthew 7:17)  So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

 

(Matthew 7:18)  A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

 

(Matthew 7:19)  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

 

(Matthew 7:20)  Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

 

(Matthew 7:21)  "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

 

(Matthew 7:22)  On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?'

 

(Matthew 7:23)  And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

 

(Matthew 7:24)  "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

 

(Matthew 7:25)  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

 

(Matthew 7:26)  And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

 

(Matthew 7:27)  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

 

Through God’s grace and mercy it is all possible of course. He is good and His mercy lasts forever.

Next up is a warning in Galatians 5 is to walk by the spirit and to not satisfy the desires of the flesh, for we are under the grace of God:

(Galatians 5:13)  For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

 

(Galatians 5:14)  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

 

(Galatians 5:15)  But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

 

(Galatians 5:16)  But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

 

(Galatians 5:17)  For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

 

(Galatians 5:18)  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

 

(Galatians 5:19)  Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

 

(Galatians 5:20)  idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

 

(Galatians 5:21)  envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

(Galatians 5:22)  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

 

(Galatians 5:23)  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

 

(Galatians 5:24)  And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

 

(Galatians 5:25)  If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

 

(Galatians 5:26)  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

 

Here is a similar message in Colossians 3 to put off the deeds of the flesh and to do the deeds of the spirit, in love.

(Colossians 3:1)  If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

 

(Colossians 3:2)  Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

 

(Colossians 3:3)  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

 

(Colossians 3:4)  When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

 

(Colossians 3:5)  Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

 

(Colossians 3:6)  On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

 

(Colossians 3:7)  In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

 

(Colossians 3:8)  But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

 

(Colossians 3:9)  Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

 

(Colossians 3:10)  and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

 

(Colossians 3:11)  Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

 

(Colossians 3:12)  Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

 

(Colossians 3:13)  bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

 

(Colossians 3:14)  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

 

(Colossians 3:15)  And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

 

(Colossians 3:16)  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

 

(Colossians 3:17)  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

 

This last verse is also stated in another way  1 Corinthians 10 in the first of these three verses. It is important to do all for God’s glory

(1 Corinthians 10:31)  So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

 

(1 Corinthians 10:32)  Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

 

(1 Corinthians 10:33)  just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

 

Here is a good word from 1 Peter exhorting all to humble themselves and to beware of the devil for he seeks to devour anyone he can:

(1 Peter 5:6)  Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

 

(1 Peter 5:7)  casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

 

(1 Peter 5:8)  Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

 

(1 Peter 5:9)  Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

 

(1 Peter 5:10)  And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

 

(1 Peter 5:11)  To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

 

In this verse James also exhorts to resist the devil

(James 4:7)  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

 

Don’t be afraid to ask prayer from others, confessing

(James 5:16)  Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

 

As these verses say in Matthew say do it in a group, so that the prayer be more powerful, Jesus is there when two or three are gathered in His name:

(Matthew 18:18)  Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

 

(Matthew 18:19)  Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

 

(Matthew 18:20)  For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."

 

Also remember what 1 John 1 says about confessing and not confessing our sins to God. Remember too God wants to forgive and cleanse us from sins and unrighteousness

(1 John 1:5)  This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

 

(1 John 1:6)  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

 

(1 John 1:7)  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

 

(1 John 1:8)  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

 

(1 John 1:9)  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

(1 John 1:10)  If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

 

That is a powerful promise that He is faithful to forgive us of the sins that we confess and cleanse us too.

I also include the first five verses of 1 John 2 to strengthen and reinforce these scriptures

(1 John 2:1)  My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

 

(1 John 2:2)  He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

 

(1 John 2:3)  And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

 

(1 John 2:4)  Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

 

(1 John 2:5)  but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

 

Be careful to put on the whole armor of God each day as well as instructed to do so in the book of Ephesians chapter 6

(Ephesians 6:10)  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

 

(Ephesians 6:11)  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

 

(Ephesians 6:12)  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

 

(Ephesians 6:13)  Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

 

(Ephesians 6:14)  Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

 

(Ephesians 6:15)  and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

 

(Ephesians 6:16)  In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

 

(Ephesians 6:17)  and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

 

(Ephesians 6:18)  praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

 

 

The fourth chapter of the Philippians has some good advice to not be anxious about nothing and focus on what is good.

(Philippians 4:4)  Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.

 

(Philippians 4:5)  Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

 

(Philippians 4:6)  do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

 

(Philippians 4:7)  And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

 

(Philippians 4:8)  Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

 

(Philippians 4:9)  What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me--practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

 

(Philippians 4:10)  I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.

 

(Philippians 4:11)  Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

 

(Philippians 4:12)  I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

 

(Philippians 4:13)  I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

 

As does the fifth chapter in 1 Thessalonians with various exhortations

(1Thessalonians 5:9)  For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:10)  who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:11)  Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:12)  We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:13)  and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:14)  And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:15)  See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:16)  Rejoice always,

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:17)  pray without ceasing,

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:18)  give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:19)  Do not quench the Spirit.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:20)  Do not despise prophecies,

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:21)  but test everything; hold fast what is good.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:22)  Abstain from every form of evil.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:23)  Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:24)  He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

 

There is more powerful advice here in Ephesians chapter 4 to put off our old self and be in the new self, not giving any room to the devil.

(Ephesians 4:17)  Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

 

(Ephesians 4:18)  They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

 

(Ephesians 4:19)  They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

 

(Ephesians 4:20)  But that is not the way you learned Christ!--

 

(Ephesians 4:21)  assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

 

(Ephesians 4:22)  to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

 

(Ephesians 4:23)  and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

 

(Ephesians 4:24)  and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

 

(Ephesians 4:25)  Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

 

(Ephesians 4:26)  Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

 

(Ephesians 4:27)  and give no opportunity to the devil.

 

(Ephesians 4:28)  Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

 

(Ephesians 4:29)  Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

 

(Ephesians 4:30)  And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

 

(Ephesians 4:31)  Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

 

(Ephesians 4:32)  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

 

And always remember to do ALL in love or it does not count at all, as it so strongly says in 1 Corinthians 13- the love chapter of the bible

(1 Corinthians 13:1)  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:2)  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:3)  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:4)  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

 

(1 Corinthians 13:5)  or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

 

(1 Corinthians 13:6)  it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

 

(1Corinthians 13:7)  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:8)  Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:9)  For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

 

(1 Corinthians 13:10)  but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:11)  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:12)  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

 

(1 Corinthians 13:13)  So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Romans Chapter 8 has been put in to remind us that we are under the spirit, are to live under the spirit and NOT the flesh, and that absolutely NOTHING can separate us from His love.

(Romans 8:1)  There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

 

(Romans 8:2)  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

 

(Romans 8:3)  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

 

(Romans 8:4)  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 

(Romans 8:5)  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

 

(Romans 8:6)  For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

 

(Romans 8:7)  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

 

(Romans 8:8)  Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

 

(Romans 8:9)  You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

 

(Romans 8:10)  But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

 

(Romans 8:11)  If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

 

(Romans 8:12)  So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

 

(Romans 8:13)  For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

 

(Romans 8:14)  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

 

(Romans 8:15)  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

 

(Romans 8:16)  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

 

(Romans 8:17)  and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

 

(Romans 8:18)  For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

 

(Romans 8:19)  For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

 

(Romans 8:20)  For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

 

(Romans 8:21)  that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

 

(Romans 8:22)  For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

 

(Romans 8:23)  And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

 

(Romans 8:24)  For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

 

(Romans 8:25)  But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

 

(Romans 8:26)  Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

 

(Romans 8:27)  And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

 

(Romans 8:28)  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

 

(Romans 8:29)  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

 

(Romans 8:30)  And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

 

(Romans 8:31)  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

 

(Romans 8:32)  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

 

(Romans 8:33)  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

 

(Romans 8:34)  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

 

(Romans 8:35)  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

 

(Romans 8:36)  As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

 

(Romans 8:37)  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

 

(Romans 8:38)  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

 

(Romans 8:39)  nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

My last scriptures are for those who want to seek God’s love or to return to it, this is the scriptures of salvation:

(Romans 10:8)  But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

 

(Romans 10:9)  because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

 

(Romans 10:10)  For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

 

(Romans 10:11)  For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

 

(Romans 10:12)  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

 

(Romans 10:13)  For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

 

Yes, all who call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved. I wrap this  all up with a salvation prayer for all those who want to come or return to the Lord I strongly suggest that you pray the following prayer with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.