1 Timothy 4:8 KJV For bodily exercise profiteth little:
but godliness is profitable unto all things,
having promise of the life that now is,
and of that which is to come.
1 Peter 2:7-10 KJV Unto you therefore which believe He is precious:
but unto them which be disobedient,
the stone which the builders disallowed,
the same is made the head of the corner,
[8] And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence,
even to them which stumble at the word,
being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
[9] But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;
that ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
[10] Which in time past were not a people,
but are now the people of God:
which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Genesis 1:27 KJV So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
Philippians 1:27-28 KJV
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ:
that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition,
but to you of salvation, and that of God.
James 1:26-27 KJV If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,
but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
[27] Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Psalm 127:1-5 KJV
Except the LORD build the house,
they labour in vain that build it:
except the LORD keep the city,
the watchman waketh but in vain.
[2] It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows:
for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
[3] Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
[4] As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
so are children of the youth.
[5] Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Luke 1:68-79 KJV Blessed be the Lord God of Israel;
for He hath visited and redeemed His people,
[69] And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David;
[70] As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
[71] That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
[72] To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant;
[73] The oath which He sware to our father Abraham,
[74] That He would grant unto us, that we
being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear,
[75] In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
[76] And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest:
for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways;
[77] To give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission of their sins,
[78] Through the tender mercy of our God;
whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
[79] To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
2 Peter 1:12-21 KJV
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things,
though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
[13] Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,
to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
[14] Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
[15] Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able
after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
[16] For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
when we made known unto you the power and coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
[17] For he received from God the Father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
[18] And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount.
[19] We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
[20] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
[21] For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.