10 Core Doctrines with
Supporting Scriptures
​Biblical Authority – Scripture Alone (Sola Scriptura)
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[2Ti 3:16-17 CSB] 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
[Isa 55:11 CSB] 11 "so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do."
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[Psa 19:7-8 CSB] 7 The instruction of the LORD is perfect, renewing one's life; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making the inexperienced wise. 8 The precepts of the LORD are right, making the heart glad; the command of the LORD is radiant, making the eyes light up.
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[Heb 4:12 CSB] 12 For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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[Mat 4:4 CSB] 4 He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
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[Jhn 17:17 CSB] 17 "Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
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[Jas 1:22-25 CSB] 22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works ​-- ​this person will be blessed in what he does.
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[Pro 30:5 CSB] 5 Every word of God is pure; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
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[Rom 15:4 CSB] 4 For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.
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[1Pe 1:23-25 CSB] 23 because you have been born again ​-- ​not of perishable seed but of imperishable ​-- ​through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.
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Divine Providence – God’s Sovereignty
[Rom 11:36 CSB] 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
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[Psa 115:3 CSB] 3 Our God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases.
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[Isa 46:9-10 CSB] 9 "Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and no one is like me. 10 "I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.
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[Dan 4:35 CSB] 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and he does what he wants with the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can block his hand or say to him, "What have you done? "
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[Pro 16:9 CSB] 9 A person's heart plans his way, but the LORD determines his steps.
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[Eph 1:11 CSB] 11 In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,
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[Gen 50:20 CSB] 20 "You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result ​-- ​the survival of many people.
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[Job 42:2 CSB] 2 I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted.
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[Mat 10:29-31 CSB] 29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's consent. 30 "But even the hairs of your head have all been counted. 31 "So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
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[Lam 3:37-38 CSB] 37 Who is there who speaks and it happens, unless the Lord has ordained it? 38 Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
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Human Sinfulness – Total Depravity
[Rom 3:10-12 CSB] 10 as it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away; all alike have become worthless. There is no one who does what is good, not even one.
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[Jer 17:9 CSB] 9 The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable ​-- ​who can understand it?
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[Eph 2:1-3 CSB] 1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins 2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. 3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
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[Gen 6:5 CSB] 5 When the LORD saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,
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[Isa 64:6 CSB] 6 All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
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[Jhn 3:19-20 CSB] 19 "This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20 "For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
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[Rom 8:7-8 CSB] 7 The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God's law. Indeed, it is unable to do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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[Psa 51:5 CSB] 5 Indeed, I was guilty when I was born; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
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[Tit 1:15-16 CSB] 15 To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled. 16 They claim to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
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[1Co 2:14 CSB] 14 But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God's Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
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Sovereign Grace – Unconditional Election
[Eph 1:4-5 CSB] 4 For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. 5 He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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[Rom 9:15-16 CSB] 15 For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.
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[Jhn 15:16 CSB] 16 "You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
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[2Th 2:13 CSB] 13 But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
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[Act 13:48 CSB] 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and honored the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.
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[Rom 8:29-30 CSB] 29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
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[2Ti 1:9 CSB] 9 He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
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[Deu 7:6-8 CSB] 6 "For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 "The LORD had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 "But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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[Mat 22:14 CSB] 14 "For many are invited, but few are chosen."
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[Rev 13:8 CSB] 8 All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.
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Definite Atonement – Limited Atonement
[Jhn 10:14-15 CSB] 14 "I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me, 15 "just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
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[Mat 1:21 CSB] 21 "She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."
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[Isa 53:11-12 CSB] 11 After his anguish, he will see light and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will carry their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will give him the many as a portion, and he will receive the mighty as spoil, because he willingly submitted to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
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[Heb 9:28 CSB] 28 so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
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[Eph 5:25-27 CSB] 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
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[Rev 5:9-10 CSB] 9 And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and you purchased people for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation. 10 You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth.
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[Jhn 17:9 CSB] 9 "I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they are yours.
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[Rom 8:32-34 CSB] 32 He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything? 33 Who can bring an accusation against God's elect? God is the one who justifies. 34 Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.
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[Tit 2:14 CSB] 14 He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do good works.
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[Mat 20:28 CSB] 28 "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
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Effectual Calling – Irresistible Grace
[Jhn 6:37 CSB] 37 "Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.
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[Jhn 6:44 CSB] 44 "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
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[Eze 36:26-27 CSB] 26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 "I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
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[Act 16:14 CSB] 14 A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.
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[2Co 4:6 CSB] 6 For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
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[Rom 8:30 CSB] 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
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[Psa 110:3 CSB] 3 Your people will volunteer on your day of battle. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to you.
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[Isa 55:10-11 CSB] 10 "For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return there without saturating the earth and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, 11 "so my word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do."
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[Jas 1:18 CSB] 18 By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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[1Co 1:23-24 CSB] 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. 24 Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,
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Perseverance of the Saints
[Phl 1:6 CSB] 6 I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
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[Jhn 10:27-29 CSB] 27 "My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 28 "I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 "My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
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[Rom 8:38-39 CSB] 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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[Jde 1:24-25 CSB] 24 Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.
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[1Pe 1:5 CSB] 5 You are being guarded by God's power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
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[Heb 10:14 CSB] 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
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[2Ti 4:18 CSB] 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
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[Psa 37:23-24 CSB] 23 A person's steps are established by the LORD, and he takes pleasure in his way. 24 Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, because the LORD supports him with his hand.
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[1Co 1:8-9 CSB] 8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful; you were called by him into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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[Heb 7:25 CSB] 25 Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to intercede for them.
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God’s Redemptive Plan – Covenant Theology
[Heb 9:15 CSB] 15 Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
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[Gen 12:2-3 CSB] 2 I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
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[Jer 31:33 CSB] 33 "Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days" ​-- ​the LORD's declaration. "I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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[Gal 3:29 CSB] 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.
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[Luk 22:20 CSB] 20 In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
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[Rom 4:13 CSB] 13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
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[2Co 3:6 CSB] 6 He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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[Gen 17:7 CSB] 7 "I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.
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[Eph 2:12-13 CSB] 12 At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
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[Rev 21:3 CSB] 3 Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God's dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God.
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Salvation Through Faith – Justification by Faith Alone
[Rom 5:1 CSB] 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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[Gal 2:16 CSB] 16 and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
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[Eph 2:8-9 CSB] 8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift ​-- ​ 9 not from works, so that no one can boast.
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[Phl 3:9 CSB] 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ ​-- ​the righteousness from God based on faith.
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[Tit 3:5-7 CSB] 5 he saved us ​-- ​not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy ​-- ​through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 He poured out his Spirit on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
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[Jhn 5:24 CSB] 24 "Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
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[Act 13:38-39 CSB] 38 "Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers and sisters, that through this man forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you. 39 "Everyone who believes is justified through him from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.
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[Rom 3:28 CSB] 28 For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
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[Heb 10:10 CSB] 10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
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[Luk 18:13-14 CSB] 13 "But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner! ' 14 "I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
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The Glory of God as the Chief End​​
[1Co 10:31 CSB] 31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
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[Isa 43:7 CSB] 7 "everyone who bears my name and is created for my glory. I have formed them; indeed, I have made them."
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[Rom 11:36 CSB] 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.
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[Psa 19:1 CSB] 1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands.
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[Rev 4:11 CSB] 11 Our Lord and God, you are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and by your will they exist and were created.
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[1Pe 4:11 CSB] 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God's words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
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[Isa 6:3 CSB] 3 And one called to another: Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Armies; his glory fills the whole earth.
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[Hab 2:14 CSB] 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD's glory, as the water covers the sea.
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[Jhn 17:24 CSB] 24 "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world's foundation.
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[Phl 2:9-11 CSB] 9 For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow -- in heaven and on earth and under the earth -- 11 and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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