• Ephesians 2:4-10
  But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
   
• Hebrews 5:9-11
  And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
   
• Romans 4:17-21
  (as it is written, 'I have made you a father of many nations') in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, 'So shall your descendants be.' And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
   
• Romans 11:27-36
  For this is My covenant with them,
  When I take away their sins." Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
  'For who has known the mind of the LORD?
  Or who has become His counselor?'
  'Or who has first given to Him
  And it shall be repaid to him?' For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
   
• Hebrews 2:9-10
  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
   
• Hebrews 2:16-18
  For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
   
• Hebrews 13:20-21
  Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
   
• 1 Peter 2:9-10
  But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
   
• Deuteronomy 8:2-3
  And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.
   
• Isaiah 46:3-4
  “ Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
  And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
  Who have been upheld by Me from birth,
  Who have been carried from the womb:
  Even to your old age, I am He,
  And even to gray hairs I will carry you!
  I have made, and I will bear;
  Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
  
   
• Romans 5:20-21
  Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
   
• Romans 8:34-35
  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
   
• 2 Corinthians 2:14-15
  Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
   
• 2 Corinthians 4:16-17
  Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
   
• James 1:2-3
  My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
   
• 1 John 1:8-9
  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
   

Related Scriptures

• 2 Peter 1:4
  by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
   
• John 6:29-30
  Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." Therefore they said to Him, “What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?
   
• 1 Corinthians 15:49
  And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
   
• Ephesians 4:12
  for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
   
• Romans 9:17-18
  For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.' Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
   
• Romans 9:22-23
  What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
   
• James 1:17
  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
   
• Revelation 19:7
  Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."
   
• Genesis 2:8
  The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
   
• Psalm 27:14
  Wait on the LORD;
  Be of good courage,
  And He shall strengthen your heart;
  Wait, I say, on the LORD!
  
   
• Isaiah 32:13-18
  On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers,
  Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;
  Because the palaces will be forsaken,
  The bustling city will be deserted.
  The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
  A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
  Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
  And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
  And the fruitful field is counted as a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
  And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
  The work of righteousness will be peace,
  And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
  My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation,
  In secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places,
  
   
• John 5:24
  'Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
   
• 2 Thessalonians 3:5
  Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.