Your effort to read the Bible will produce the spiritual sweetness of Jesus within you.

Your effort to read the Bible will produce the spiritual sweetness of Jesus within you.

“Then I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet [glukus] as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.” (Rev 10:10)
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” (Matt 5:6)
“And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” (Jn 6:35)
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” (Jn 6:53)
“Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep [tereo] My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (Jn 14:23)
“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” (2Cor 2:14)
“that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Eph 3:19)
“And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit” (Eph 5:18)
“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.” (1Jn 4:15)
“that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” (Eph 3:17)
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom” (Col 3:16)
“And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling [euodia] aroma.” (Eph 5:2)
“The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.” (Jn 6:41)
“I am the bread of life.” (Jn 6:48)
“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col 1:27)
“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.” (Rom 8:9)
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” (Rom 8:11)
“He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.” (2Jn 1:9)
“How sweet [malats] are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Ps 119:103)
“For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things. I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles.” (Ezek 20:40-41)
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (Jn 1:14)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” (Jn 1:1-3)
Reading: Rev 8-10; Mk 7