Your efforts toward godliness will bring you life more abundantly.

Your efforts toward godliness will bring you life more abundantly.

“…exercise [gumnazo] yourself toward godliness.” (1Tim 4:7)

“For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.” (1Tim 4:8)

“Meditate on these things; give yourself [isthi] entirely to them, that your progress [prokope] may be evident to all.” (1Tim 4:15)

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” (1Cor 15:10)

“Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.” (1Tim 4:16)

“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2Pet 1:8)

“Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent [spoudazo] to make [poieo] your call and election sure, for if you do [poieo] these things you will never stumble [ptaio]” (2Pet 1:10)

“Be diligent [spoudazo] to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2Tim 2:15)

“Let us therefore be diligent [spoudazo] to enter that rest” (Heb 4:11)

“be diligent [spoudazo] to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless” (2Pet 3:14)

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God” (Rom 12:1)

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (Jn 10:10)

“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)

“For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself” (Jn 5:26)

“these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” (Jn 20:31)

“He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” (1Jn 5:12)

Reading: 1Tim 4-6; Rom 16