Matt 7:13 (KJV) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: {strait: or, narrow} 14 Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}
Hebr 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims> ["exiles"-RSV] on the earth. {in faith: Gr. according to faith} 1Pet 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers ["aliens"-RSV] and pilgrims ["exiles"-RSV], abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other] people. And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from [other] people, that ye should be mine. --- Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called: --- Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. --- And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. --- Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. --- Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; {glorious...: Gr. the appearance of the glory of the great God, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ} Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. --- For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, --- And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. {sanctified...: or, truly sanctified} --- Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Please refer to this document with any
...add a | Essays | Bible F.A.Q.'S | Journal | Salt-Licks | Soul Food | Poems | Quotes |
| Books | Links | Testimony | Daygleans | Read-E-Mail | God's Names | Proverbs | -Home |