Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:7
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Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:7
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As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. The glances of his eyes outshine the sun: the beauties of his face are fairer than the choicest flowers: no fragrance is like the breath of his mouth. Gems of the mine, and pearls from the sea, are worthless things when measured by his preciousness. Peter tells us that Jesus is precious, but he did not and could not tell us how precious, nor could any of us compute the value of God's unspeakable gift. Words cannot...
Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:7
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Before you, seated in the cavern of this world, the wizard of this world causes to appear, one after another, scenes of beauty, dissolving scenes that scarce have presented themselves to your vision before they have gone, leaving you in darkness. The wizard shows them to you that he may bind you to himself forever. "All these things will I bestow upon you," he says, " if you fall down and worship me." " The realities are in my chambers," he says; "I give them to whomsoever I will."...
Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:7
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To you who believe, He is precious. (1 Peter 2:7)
If you or I claim
to have more light, more revelation –
God forbid
that we
should ever make claims like that! – but if we should think that it is so, the
proof and the value is – do people see more of Christ in us than others? For
God never moves...
Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:7
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Christ … has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. § Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious. § God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. § In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.If you love Me, keep My commandments. § The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. § The...
Bible Verses: Song of Solomon 1:3Ephesians 5:21 Peter 2:7Philippians 2:9Philippians 2:10Colossians 2:9John 14:15Romans 5:5John 12:3Acts 4:13Psalms 8:1Matthew 1:23Isaiah 9:6Proverbs 18:10
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God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. § The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. § To you who believe, He is precious. § We love Him because He first loved us. § The love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.You yourselves are taught...
Bible Verses: Galatians 5:221 John 4:16Romans 5:51 Peter 2:71 John 4:192 Corinthians 5:142 Corinthians 5:151 Thessalonians 4:9John 15:121 Peter 4:8Ephesians 5:2
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To you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, … “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” § The way of the Lord is strength for the upright, but destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.He who has ears to hear, let him hear! § Whoever is wise will observe these things, and they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord. § The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. § If anyone wills to...
Bible Verses: Hosea 14:91 Peter 2:71 Peter 2:8Proverbs 10:29Matthew 11:15Psalms 107:43Matthew 6:22John 7:17Matthew 13:12John 8:47John 5:40John 10:27
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If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. § We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. § To you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become...
Bible Verses: Galatians 5:11Matthew 16:24James 4:4Acts 14:22Romans 9:331 Peter 2:71 Peter 2:8Galatians 6:14Galatians 2:20Galatians 5:242 Timothy 2:12
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Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?[He is] the brightness of [God’s] glory and the express image of His person. § The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen. § “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”Lord, I believe!...
Bible Verses: John 9:35John 9:36Hebrews 1:31 Timothy 6:151 Timothy 6:16Revelation 1:8John 9:382 Timothy 1:121 Peter 2:61 Peter 2:7
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Yes: Jesus is precious to every believer. However Christians may differ upon some points, they all agree in this, JESUS IS PRECIOUS. They cannot always feel towards Him as they wish, but have always one and the same opinion of Him.
He is precious in His person, word, work, blood, righteousness, and intercession: as Prophet, Priest, and King: in every name He wears, every character He bears, every relation He fills, and every office He sustains: so precious that none can be compared...