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The World Hates the Disciples
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
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The Believers Share Their Possessions
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
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“You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”
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But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
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We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said.
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At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane.”
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The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
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Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
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but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
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Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
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Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
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The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
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The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
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And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
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“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
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Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.
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Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
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May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had,
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so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
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A Church Divided Over Leaders
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
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However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
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for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing.
