Let us not become weary in doing good

Let us not become weary in doing good

Gal 6:9

⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 

1 Cor 15:58

⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

2 Cor 4:1

Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  Let us not become weary in doing good

2)  Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

3)  Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.

The one who sows to please the Spirit will reap eternal life

The one who sows to please the Spirit will reap eternal life

Gal 6:8

⁸ Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Jas 3:18

¹⁸ Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

Hos 10: 12

¹² Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.

2 Cor 9:6

⁶ Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  The one who sows to please the Spirit will reap eternal life

2)  Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

3)  Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.

Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Submit to one another out of reverence of Christ

Submit to one another out of reverence of Christ

Eph 5:21

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Gal 5:13

¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh^[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 

¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

¹⁵ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

1 Pet 5:5

⁵ In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ

2)    We were called to be free, use your freedom to serve one another humbly in love

3)    For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.

4)    If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

5)    All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another

6)    God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble

Carry each other’s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ

Carry each other’s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ

Gal 6:2

² Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Cor 9:21

²¹ To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 

²² To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 

²³ I do all this for the sake of the gospel that I may share in its blessings.

Jas 2:8

 ⁸ If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”^[a] you are doing right.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

2)  We have to try to win some people for the sake of the gospel that we may share in its blessings.

We are to win some people for Christ for the sake of Gospel by showing His love

Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ

Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ

Rom 13:14

¹⁴ Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.^[c]

Gal 6:8

⁸ Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Col 2:11

¹¹ In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[b] was put off when you were circumcised by^[c] Christ, 

¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh

2)  Our whole self ruled by the flesh^[b] was put off when we were circumcised by^[c] Christ

Living according to Spirit

Living according to Spirit

Rom 8:3 -5, 8, 9, 12, 13

³ For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.^[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh,⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

⁵ Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

                                               

⁸ Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 

¹² Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.

2)  God condemned sin in the flesh,⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

3)  Those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

4)  We, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in us.

5)  If by the Spirit we put to death the misdeeds of the body, we will live.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires

Gal 5:24

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Rom 6:6

⁶ For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— ⁷ because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Rom 7: 5, 18

⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh,^[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

¹⁸ For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)   Those who belong to Christ have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires

2)  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin

3)  For we know that good itself does not dwell in our sinful nature