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Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test!(A)

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40 Let us test and examine our ways
    and return to the Lord.(A)

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28 Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.(A)

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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my thoughts.(A)
24 See if there is any wicked[a] way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.[b](B)

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  1. 139.24 Heb hurtful
  2. 139.24 Or the ancient way

27 but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.(A)

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Remember, then, from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

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All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.(A)

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15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.(A)

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31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not be judged.(A)

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20 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,[a] who loved me and gave himself for me.(A)

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  1. 2.20 Or by faith in the Son of God

16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.(A)

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23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(A)

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Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
    test my heart and mind.(A)

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10 But if Christ is in you, then the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit[a] is life because of righteousness.

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  1. 8.10 Or spirit

59 When I think of your ways,
    I turn my feet to your decrees;(A)

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Wake up and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.(A)

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The Rest That God Promised

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it.(A)

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“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

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24 Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.(A)

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16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?[a](A)

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  1. 3.16 In 3.16 and 3.17 the Greek word for you is plural

Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.(A)

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Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.(A)

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If you try my heart, if you visit me by night,
    if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me;
    my mouth does not transgress.(A)

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Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

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17 and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.

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