Bible Verses about “practical christian living”

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”

“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”

“knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,”

“Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

“Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”

“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.”

“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”

“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”

“But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.”

“Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.”

“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”

“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”

“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”

“He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

“For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.”

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.”

“Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.”

“he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.”

“Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.”

“Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.”

“Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.”

“But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;”

“For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.”

“James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.”

“But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?”

“that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."”

“but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.”

“but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”

“Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;”

“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:”

“For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:”

“Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”

“He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.”

“Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;”

“We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.”

“Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.”

“When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.”

“God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.”

“After they were silent, James answered, "Brothers, listen to me.”

“Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.”