FEARING GOD. Prov. ix: 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding. Prov. xix: 23 The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. Exod. xx: 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. Deut. viii: 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. Deut. vi: 2 That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. I Saml. xii: 24 Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. Ps. cxxviii: Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. Ps: xxxiv: 9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. II Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Ps. lxxxix: 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. Psal. xxv: 12 What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. Ps. xxxiii: 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. Psal. ciii: Luke i: Luke xii: Heb. xii: II For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 50 His mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. 4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire. TEMPERANCE. Prov. xxiii: 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? Hab. ii: 30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Prov. xxiii: 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of Isa. v: I Cor. vi: flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. II Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine are their feasts: but they regard not the work of the the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Io Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. I Thes. v: 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. Eph. v: II Pet. i: Gal. v: Tit. i: I Cor. ix: 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. 5 And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; 6 And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. SELF-DENIAL. Luke ix: Rom. vi: I Pet. ii: Matt. v: Tit. ii: Rom. xv: 23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instnuments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. II Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. II For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. I We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. II Tim. ii: 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. I Cor. ix: I Cor. x: Phil. ii: 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life: that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Luke xiv: 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. CHARITY. Col. iii: James ii: I Tim. i: Heb. vi: Rev. ii: 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 8 If ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well. 5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. I Thes. iv: 9 But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. II Thes. i: 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. I Pet. iv: 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. I Cor. xiii: 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and underderstand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. CONSCIENCE. I Tim. iv: I Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Tit.i: 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron. 15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. I Cor. viii: 12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. .II Cor. v: II Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also we are made manifest in your consciences. II Cor. iv: 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Acts xxiv: 16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. II Cor. i: I Tim. i: I Tim. iii: Heb. ix: 1 Tim. i: I Pet. iii: 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to youward. 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck. 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves; 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of a faith unfeigned. 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. Heb. xiii: 18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. Heb. x: 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. |