47.

1D1: Image of God

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over
the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth."
Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God
made man in his own image.
Psalm 8:4-8 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care
for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned
him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the
field, 8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths
of the seas.
Psalm 63:1 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my
flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 [The author is writing about the end times] and the dust returns to the
earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Matthew 10:28 do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear
him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 22:37 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind.
Luke 3:38 [At the end of the genealogy tracing Christ to Adam] the son of Enos, the son
of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Romans 8:10 if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life
because of righteousness.
Colossians 2:5 I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good
order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and
may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
48. 3D2: Depravity of man
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Psalm 14:2-5 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there
are any who understand, who seek after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they
have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. 4 Have they no
knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call
upon the LORD? 5 There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the
righteous.
Isaiah 64:6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are
like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us
away.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can
understand it?
Matthew 15:19-20 19 out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual
immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with
unwashed hands does not defile anyone."
John 5:42 [Jesus is talking to some Jews who are planning to kill Him] I know that you do
not have the love of God within you.
Romans 7:18 I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the
desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Romans 7:23-24 23 I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my
mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched
man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Romans 8:7-8 7 the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to
God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Ephesians 2:1-3 1 you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked,
following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—3 among whom we all once lived in the
passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by
nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 4:17-19 17 I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the
Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding,
alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their
hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to
sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 1 in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be
lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not
loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such
people.
Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is
pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Titus 3:3 we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various
passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating
one another.
Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart,
leading you to fall away from the living God.
49. 3D3: Original sin
Genesis 3:6 when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Romans 5:12-14 12 just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through
sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—13 for sin indeed was in the
world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the
transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
1 Corinthians 15:21-22 21 as by a man came death, by a man has come also the
resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made
alive.
50. 3D4: Sin nature
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
Psalm 14:2-5 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there
are any who understand, who seek after God. 3 They have all turned aside; together they
have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. 4 Have they no
knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call
upon the LORD? 5 There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the
righteous.
Isaiah 64:6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are
like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us
away.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can
understand it?
Matthew 15:19-20 19 out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual
immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with
unwashed hands does not defile anyone."
Romans 7:15-24 15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I
do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is
good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that
nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right,
but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not
want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it,
but sin that dwells within me. 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies
close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my
members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to
the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me
from this body of death?
Romans 8:7-8 7 the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to
God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is
pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart,
leading you to fall away from the living God.
51. 3D5: Sanctification
Psalm 51:2, 7-12 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! ...
7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 9 Hide your
face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not
your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a
willing spirit.
John 17:17 [Jesus is praying about His people] Sanctify them in the truth; your word is
truth.
Galatians 5:22-23 22 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 3:18 we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes
from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Philippians 3:8-14 8 I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and
count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a
righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in
Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—10 that I may know him and the
power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11
that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have
already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because
Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my
own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies
ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ
Jesus.
Philippians 3:20-21 20 our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the
power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and
may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one
will see the Lord.
James 1:21-22 21 put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with
meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
1 Peter 1:14-16 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your
former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
16
since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."
52. 3D6: Repentance
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O
God, you will not despise.
Ezekiel 33:11 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil
ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Matthew 3:8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
Acts 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out
Acts 26:19-20 19 O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but
declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of
Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing
deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Romans 2:4 do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience,
not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
1 John 1:8-9 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
53. 3D7: Regeneration
John 1:9-13 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He
was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive
him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were
born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:3-6 3 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the
kingdom of God." 4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can
he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom
of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent
me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
2 Corinthians 5:17 if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away;
behold, the new has come.
Romans 6:13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness,
but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and
your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Galatians 6:15 neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new
creation.
Ephesians 2:4-5 4 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he
loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ—by grace you have been saved
Ephesians 4:22-24 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life
and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24
and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and
holiness.
Titus 3:5 4 when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he
saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own
mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his
great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead
1 Peter 1:22-23 22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere
brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born
again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of
God
1 John 3:9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him,
and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the
brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and
everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 John 5:18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on
sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.