Bible Verses About Compared To Saints

and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.'

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

and now, indeed, are many members, and one body;

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

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

Beloved, I call upon you , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,