Bible Verses about “practical christian living”

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

“All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”

“‹But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.›”

“Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”

“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”

“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”

“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”

“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”

“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.”

“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”

“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”

“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”

“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”

“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”

“But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?”

“That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”

“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.”

“But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”

“For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;”

“For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;”

“Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”

“And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.”

“Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment:”

“So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”

“When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.”

“And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men [and] brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.”

“And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as [he did] unto us;”

“And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men [and] brethren, hearken unto me:”

“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”