Bible Verses About Compared To Saints

After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

Stay united with me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can’t put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can’t bear fruit apart from me.

“I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can’t do a thing.

After breakfast, Yeshua said to Shim‘on Kefa, “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, do you love me more than these?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I’m your friend.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

Don’t you know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one wins the prize? So then, run to win!

But as it is, there are indeed many parts, yet just one body.

Now you together constitute the body of the Messiah, and individually you are parts of it.

Brothers, don’t be children in your thinking. In evil, be like infants; but in your thinking, be grown-up.

so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without defect in the midst of a twisted and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the sky,

Accept your share in suffering disgrace as a good soldier of the Messiah Yeshua.

No soldier on duty gets involved with civilian affairs, since he has to please his commanding officer.

Also an athlete can’t win a contest unless he competes according to the rules.

In a large house there are dishes and pots not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. That is, some are meant for honorable use and some for dishonorable.

So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment — that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement — and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us,

As people who obey God, do not let yourselves be shaped by the evil desires you used to have when you were still ignorant.

and be like newborn babies, thirsty for the pure milk of the Word; so that by it, you may grow up into deliverance.

you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you;