Tom Northrup

Do good, justice

Isaiah 1:17 (ESV)
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Beat the air

1 Corinthians 9:26-27 (ESV)
So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

1 Corinthians 7:5

1 Corinthians 7:5 (ESV)
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 4:16

1 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV)
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Fathets

1 Corinthians 4:15 (ESV)
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Cost of apostle

1 Corinthians 4:9 (ESV)
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

Work will be tested

1 Corinthians 3:13 (ESV)
each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

Burden of love for sheep

Exodus 28:30 (ESV)
And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the Lord. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the Lord regularly.

full and able to teach

Romans 15:14 (ESV)
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Ephesians 4:2-3

Ephesians 4:2-3 (ESV)
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

faith of a centurion

Matthew 8:5 (ESV)
When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him,

Matthew 8:9-10 (ESV)
For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."

blessings from God for those who obey

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 (ESV)
"And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:6 (ESV)
Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

blessed to suffer

Acts 5:41 (ESV)
Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.

obey God over man

Acts 5:28-32 (ESV)
saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

dead to sin, alive in Christ

Romans 6:5-11 (ESV)
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

Romans 6:12

Romans 6:12 (ESV)
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

By my Spirit

Zechariah 4:6 (ESV)
Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13 (ESV)
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Christ in me

Galatians 2:20 (ESV)
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

obey his commands

1 John 2:3-6 (ESV)
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

Romans 14:23

Romans 14:23 (ESV)
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Romans 14:23

Romans 14:23 (ESV)
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Death to self

Psalm 78:34 (ESV)
When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.

Put on Christ

Romans 13:14 (ESV)
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.