Matt Rider

Romans 4:1

Romans 4:1 (MSG)
So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things? If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we're given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story. What we read in Scripture is, "Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own."

Ephesians 4:11

Ephesians 4:11 (NIV)
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,

Ephesians 4:12

Ephesians 4:12 (NIV)
to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up

Ephesians 4:13

Ephesians 4:13 (NIV)
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

Ephesians 4:14 (NIV)
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.

Ephesians 4:15

Ephesians 4:15 (NIV)
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Ephesians 4:16

Ephesians 4:16 (NIV)
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Exodus 18:26

Exodus 18:26 (MSG)
They took over the everyday work of judging among the people. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but in the routine cases they were the judges.

James 2:18

James 2:18 (NASB)
But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works."

2 Peter 3:5

2 Peter 3:5 (KJV)
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

2 Peter 3:4

2 Peter 3:4 (KJV)
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

2 Peter 3:3

2 Peter 3:3 (KJV)
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Isaiah 40:31

Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:30

Isaiah 40:30 (KJV)
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Isaiah 40:29

Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Isaiah 40:28

Isaiah 40:28 (KJV)
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

2 Timothy 3:15

2 Timothy 3:15 (KJV)
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:14

2 Timothy 3:14 (KJV)
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;