LOVE PERFECTED

1 JOHN 2:5-6  5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

1 JOHN 4:12  … If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1 JOHN 4:20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

PROVERBS 10:12  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

1 JOHN 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

PROVERBS 17:17  A friend loveth at all times, …

1 JOHN 2:10  He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

BIBLE VERSES FOR TODAY  : 

COMMANDMENT KEEPING IS A RELATIONSHIP

1 JOHN 2:3-4   3 … we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 JOHN 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

REVELATION 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

REVELATION 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, …

PSALM 111:7-8  7 … all his commandments are sure. 8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

JOHN 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

BISATISFY THE JUSTICE OF GOD

1 JOHN 2:1-2  1 … these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 JOHN 4:10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:21  20 … be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

GALATIANS 3:13  Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

GALATIANS 3:26,29  26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

TIME FOR CONFESSION

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.

PROVERBS 28:13  He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

ROMANS 10:10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

PSALM 51:2  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

HEBREWS 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

MATTHEW 1:21  …thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

HOW TO KEEP FROM STUMBLING

1 JOHN 1:7,5  7  if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, … the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 5  … God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

PSALM 27:1  The LORD is my light and my salvation; …

JOB 29:3  … by his light I walked through darkness;

PSALM 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

JOHN 1:9-10  9  the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10 … the world was made by him, …

JOHN 12:35  … Jesus said … , Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: …

JOHN 8:12  Then spake Jesus… , saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

KEEP OUR EYES ON JESUS

2 PETER 3:17-18  17 … beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. …

2 PETER 1:10  … brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

JUDE 24  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

REVELATION 3:5  He that overcometh, … shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, …

REVELATION 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, …

MATTHEW 1:21 …  thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

LET’S ALL BE A PART OF THE NEW EARTH

2 PETER 3:13-15  13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; …

REVELATION 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; …

2 PETER 3:10  … the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up

REVELATION 5:9-10  9 … hast redeemed us to God by thy blood  … 10 … we shall reign on the earth.

MATTHEW 5:5  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

ISAIAH 66:22,23  22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, … 23 And it shall come to pass, … from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

READY OR NOT, HERE I COME

2 PETER 3:9-10  9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come …

EXODUS 34:6-7  6 The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, …

HEBREWS 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

HEBREWS 9:28   … unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

MATTHEW 24:44  …  be … ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

REVELATION 22:7,12,20  7 Behold, I come quickly:  … 12 And, behold, I come quickly; … 29  … Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus

BACKSLIDDEN, REPENT

2 PETER 2:21-22  21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

PROVERBS 26:11  As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly

HEBREWS 6:4-6  4 … those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

REVELATION 2:4-7  4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; … 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; …

MATTHEW 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

LUKE 15:7  … joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, …

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.

WARNING, WARNING, WARNING

2 PETER 2:1-2  1 … there shall be false teachers among you, who … shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, … . 2 … truth shall be evil spoken of.

2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4  3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

1 TIMOTHY 4:1  … in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;                   

2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-12  3 Let no man deceive you by any means: … 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.       

LUKE 21:8  … Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.                 

JOHN 8:31-32  31 Then said Jesus … continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.         

JOHN 14:6  Jesus saith … I am the way, the truth, and the life: …