Philippians 1:10

The goal of growing love and discernment is to approve what is best and live sincere and blameless until Christ returns. Wise love produces pure character.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
• Eph 5:10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Th 5:21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
• 1 Cor 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Matt 16:23But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Matt 18:6–7but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
• Josh 24:14“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
• Rom 14:20–21Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
• Eph 5:27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• Isa 7:15–16He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
• Amos 5:14–15Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
• 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
• Job 34:3For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
• Heb 5:12–14For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
• Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Job 12:11Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
• Gen 20:5Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Matt 26:33But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
• Gal 5:11But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
• John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
• Rom 16:17Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• 2 Cor 6:3We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
• Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• Rom 7:16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
• Phil 1:16The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
• 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Eph 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
• Eph 6:24Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

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