Hebrews 12:14
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Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace
14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 7:1
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7 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and of spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.(A)
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1 Peter 1:15-16
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15 Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct,(A) 16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”(B)
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1 Thessalonians 4:7
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7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
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Matthew 5:8-9
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8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.(A)
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.(B)
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1 Peter 3:11
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11 let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.
Romans 14:19
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19 Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.(A)
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Romans 12:18
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18 If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.(A)
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Proverbs 16:7
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7 When the ways of people please the Lord,
he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.(A)
3 John 11
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11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 3:13
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13 And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.[a](A)
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- 3.13 Other ancient authorities add Amen
Romans 6:22
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22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.(A)
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Isaiah 51:1
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Blessings in Store for God’s People
51 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
you who seek the Lord.
Look to the rock from which you were hewn
and to the quarry from which you were dug.(A)
Psalm 34:14
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14 Depart from evil, and do good;
seek peace, and pursue it.(A)
1 Timothy 6:11
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The Good Fight of Faith
11 But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.
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Revelation 22:11-15
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11 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”(A)
12 “See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work.(B) 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes,[a] so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral[b] and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.(C)
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Ephesians 5:5
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5 Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(A)
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2 Peter 3:11
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11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness,
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Hebrews 12:10
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10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.(A)
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Mark 9:50
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50 Salt is good, but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it?[a] Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”(A)
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- 9.50 Or how can you restore its saltiness?
1 John 3:2-3
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2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he[a] is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.(A) 3 And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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1 Corinthians 1:10
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Divisions in the Church
10 Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you but that you be knit together in the same mind and the same purpose.(A)
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Proverbs 15:1
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15 A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.(A)
Revelation 22:3-4
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3 Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him;(A) 4 they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.(B)
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Revelation 21:24-27
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24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.(A) 25 Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.(B) 26 People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(C)
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