Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me

[2 Corinthians 12:5] On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. [2 Corinthians 12:6] For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me. [2 Corinthians 12:7] By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. [2 Corinthians 12:8] Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. [2 Corinthians 12:9] He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. [2 Corinthians 12:10] Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong. [2 Corinthians 12:11] I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing. [2 Corinthians 12:12] Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

[Hebrews 13:3] Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. [Hebrews 13:4] Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. [Hebrews 13:5] Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.” [Hebrews 13:6] So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?” [Hebrews 13:7] Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith. [Hebrews 13:8] Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

[Psalms 23:1] A Psalm by David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing. [Psalms 23:2] He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. [Psalms 23:3] He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. [Psalms 23:4] Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. [Psalms 23:5] You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. [Psalms 23:6] Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.

[John 10:25] Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. [John 10:26] But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. [John 10:27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. [John 10:28] I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. [John 10:29] My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. [John 10:30] I and the Father are one.” [John 10:31] Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. [John 10:32] Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

[Romans 8:33] Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. [Romans 8:34] Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. [Romans 8:35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [Romans 8:36] Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” [Romans 8:37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [Romans 8:38] For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, [Romans 8:39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[Romans 4:21] and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. [Romans 4:22] Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.” [Romans 4:23] Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, [Romans 4:24] but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, [Romans 4:25] who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

[1 Peter 2:22] who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.” [1 Peter 2:23] When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously. [1 Peter 2:24] He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds. [1 Peter 2:25] For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

[1 Corinthians 15:18] Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. [1 Corinthians 15:19] If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable. [1 Corinthians 15:20] But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruit of those who are asleep. [1 Corinthians 15:21] For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. [1 Corinthians 15:22] For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. [1 Corinthians 15:23] But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s at his coming. [1 Corinthians 15:24] Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

[Romans 6:4] We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. [Romans 6:5] For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; [Romans 6:6] knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. [Romans 6:7] For he who has died has been freed from sin. [Romans 6:8] But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, [Romans 6:9] knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! [Romans 6:10] For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. [Romans 6:11] Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Romans 6:12] Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. [Romans 6:13] Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. [Romans 6:14] For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. [Romans 6:15] What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! [Romans 6:16] Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

[John 8:32] You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” [John 8:33] They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?” [John 8:34] Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. [John 8:35] A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. [John 8:36] If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. [John 8:37] I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. [John 8:38] I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

[Galatians 2:18] For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. [Galatians 2:19] For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. [Galatians 2:20] I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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. [Galatians 2:21] I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

[Philippians 1:1] Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: [Philippians 1:2] Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. [Philippians 1:3] I thank my God whenever I remember you, [Philippians 1:4] always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, [Philippians 1:5] for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; [Philippians 1:6] being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. [Philippians 1:7] It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. [Philippians 1:8] For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

[John 14:1] “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. [John 14:2] In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. [John 14:3] If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. [John 14:4] You know where I go, and you know the way.” [John 14:5] Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

[2 Corinthians 4:14] knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also through Jesus, and will present us with you. [2 Corinthians 4:15] For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. [2 Corinthians 4:16] Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:17] For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, [2 Corinthians 4:18] while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

[Galatians 2:18] For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. [Galatians 2:19] For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. [Galatians 2:20] I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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. [Galatians 2:21] I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

[2 Timothy 4:5] But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry. [2 Timothy 4:6] For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. [2 Timothy 4:7] I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. [2 Timothy 4:8] From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing. [2 Timothy 4:9] Be diligent to come to me soon, [2 Timothy 4:10] for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.