Bible Verses About Compared To Saints

When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

But now they are many members, but one body.

Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;