Psalm 85:13
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13 Righteousness will go before him
and will make a path for his steps.(A)
John 13:34
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34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.(A)
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Psalm 89:14
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14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.(A)
1 John 2:6
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6 whoever says, “I abide in him,” ought to walk in the same way as he walked.(A)
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1 Peter 4:1
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Good Stewards of God’s Grace
4 Since, therefore, Christ suffered in the flesh,[a] arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin),(A)
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1 Peter 2:18-24
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The Example of Christ’s Suffering
18 Slaves, be subject to your masters with all respect,[a] not only those who are good and gentle but also those who are dishonest. 19 For it is a commendable thing if, being aware of God, a person endures pain while suffering unjustly. 20 If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this is a commendable thing before God.(A) 21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.(B)
22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.(C) 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[b] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[c] you have been healed.(D)
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Hebrews 12:1-2
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The Example of Jesus
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,[a] and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,(A) 2 looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of[b] the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.(B)
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Philippians 2:5-8
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5 Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus,(A)
6 who, though he existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,(B)
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,(C)
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.(D)
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Ephesians 5:1-2
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Galatians 2:20
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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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2 Corinthians 3:18
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18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.(A)
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John 13:14-16
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14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.(A) 15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.(B) 16 Very truly, I tell you, slaves are not greater than their master, nor are messengers[a] greater than the one who sent them.(C)
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Matthew 20:27-28
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27 and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave, 28 just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”(A)
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Isaiah 58:8
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8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your healing shall spring up quickly;
your vindicator[a] shall go before you;
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.(A)
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Psalm 119:35
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35 Lead me in the path of your commandments,
for I delight in it.
Psalm 72:2-3
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2 May he judge your people with righteousness
and your poor with justice.(A)
3 May the mountains yield prosperity for the people,
and the hills, in righteousness.(B)
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