Pete Schwager

Neighbors

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 (ESV)
"If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Ephesians 1:16-21

Ephesians 1:16-21 (ESV)
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

Present yourself

2 Timothy 2:15 (ESV)
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Blessed are those...

Matthew 5:11 (ESV)
"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Colossians 2:8

Colossians 2:8 (ESV)
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

God's temple

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (ESV)
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Bear each others burdens

Galatians 6:2 (ESV)
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

2 Samuel 14:14

2 Samuel 14:14 (ESV)
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

raised in Him

Colossians 2:10 (ESV)
and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Colossians 2:12 (ESV)
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

complete in Him

Colossians 2:10 (ESV)
and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.

Jesus and the law

Matthew 5:17-19 (ESV)
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Continual sin

1 John 3:4 (ESV)
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

False Christs

Matthew 24:22-24 (ESV)
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Ephesians 2:10

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Eph 2:8

Ephesians 2:8 (NKJV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Luke 6:27

Luke 6:27 (ESV)
"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Luke 6:28

Luke 6:28 (ESV)
bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Luke 6:29

Luke 6:29 (ESV)
To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.

Luke 6:30

Luke 6:30 (ESV)
Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.

Luke 6:31

Luke 6:31 (ESV)
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Luke 6:32

Luke 6:32 (ESV)
"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Luke 6:33

Luke 6:33 (ESV)
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Luke 6:34

Luke 6:34 (ESV)
And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

Luke 6:35

Luke 6:35 (ESV)
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Luke 6:36

Luke 6:36 (ESV)
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.