Gift of Life

Romans 6:23English Standard Version (ESV)

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 19:16English Standard Version (ESV)

The Rich Young Man

16 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”

John 17:3English Standard Version (ESV)

3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Jesus, Friend of Sinners

Mark 2:17English Standard Version (ESV)

17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 11:19English Standard Version (ESV)

19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”[a]

Judges 5:31English Standard Version (ESV)

31 “So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
    But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.”

And the land had rest for forty years.

Who is this King of Glory?

Psalm 24:8English Standard Version (ESV)

8 Who is this King of glory?
    The Lord, strong and mighty,
    the Lord, mighty in battle!

Matthew 24:30-31English Standard Version (ESV)

30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Banner of Love

Matthew 22:39English Standard Version (ESV)

39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

James 2:8English Standard Version (ESV)

8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Song of Solomon 2:4English Standard Version (ESV)

4 He brought me to the banqueting house,[a]
    and his banner over me was love.

Faithful God

Deuteronomy 7:9English Standard Version (ESV)

9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Psalm 86:15English Standard Version (ESV)

15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Zechariah 8:8English Standard Version (ESV)

8 and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”

Mind on the Spirit

Romans 8:6-8English Standard Version (ESV)

6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

John 1:4English Standard Version (ESV)

4 In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men.

Genesis 32:30English Standard Version (ESV)

30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,[a] saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

Do I Stand in Grace?

Romans 5:1-2English Standard Version (ESV)

Peace with God Through Faith

5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith[b] into this grace in which we stand, and we[c] rejoice[d] in hope of the glory of God.

Revelation 20:12English Standard Version (ESV)

12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books,according to what they had done.