The Missing Cross to Purity


Bible Verses are Referred to as Scriptures,
not the Word of God

The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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  1. John 5:37-40
    You have neither heard the Father's voice nor seen his form.
    But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.
    You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.
    But you are not willing to come to me that you may have life.

    Here Jesus makes a clear distinction between the word of God, and the Scriptures.
    Jesus speaks of His word abiding in you. The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart. Rom 10:8

  2. Daniel 9:2
    in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

    As seen above, the scriptures and the word of the Lord are different.
    The word of God is living and active,     Heb 10:12
    Jesus said, The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63

  3. 2 Peter 3:15-17
    and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,
    as also in all his [Paul's] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
    You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;
    (Peter also categorizes Paul's epistles as scriptures.)

  4. Matthew 21:42
    Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes    ?

  5. Matthew 22:29
    Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

  6. Matthew 26:54
    But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?"

  7. Matthew 26:56
    But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

  8. Mark 12:24
    And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

  9. Mark 14:49
    I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

  10. Luke 24:27
    And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

  11. Luke 24:32
    And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

  12. Luke 24:45
    Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.

  13. Acts 17:2
    And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures.

  14. Acts 17:11
    These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

  15. Acts 18:24
    And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

  16. Acts 18:28
    For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

  17. Romans 1:2
    (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

  18. Romans 15:4
    For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

  19. Romans 16:26
    But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.

  20. 1 Corinthians 15:3
    For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.

  21. 1 Corinthians 15:4
    And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

  22. 2 Timothy 3:15
    And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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free from sin
by benefiting from the changing power of God through the cross,
which leads to union with God in his Kingdom.