Holiness in the New TestamentHoliness in the New TestamentPart 1Part 1

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- Mercy- Truth- Infinite- Spirit

- Personal - Faithful- Unified- Good

- Peace- Omnipotent - Omniscient- Omnipresent

- Just- Love- Wisdom- Jealous

- Independent- Unchanging- Knowledge- Beautiful

- Wrath- Timeless- Grace - Free

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1 Corinthians 1:21 Corinthians 1:2 – I am writing – I am writing to God’s church in Corinth, to to God’s church in Corinth, to you who have been called by you who have been called by God to be God to be his own holy people. his own holy people. He made you holy He made you holy by means by means of of Christ Jesus,Christ Jesus, just as he did for all just as he did for all people everywhere who call on people everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. Christ, their Lord and ours. NLTNLT

Your Role -> Your Role -> Roman 12:1-2Roman 12:1-2 – – And so, dear brothers and And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let all he has done for you. Let them be them be a living and holy a living and holy sacrificesacrifice—the kind he will find —the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.to worship him.

22Don’t copyDon’t copy the behavior and the behavior and customs of this world, but customs of this world, but let God let God transform you transform you into a new person into a new person by changing the way you think. by changing the way you think. Then Then you will learn to know you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. and pleasing and perfect. NLTNLT

God’s Role -> God’s Role -> 2 Corinthians 2 Corinthians 3:183:18 – So all of us who have had – So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like makes us more and more like himhim as we are changed into his as we are changed into his glorious image. glorious image. NLTNLT

1 Corinthians 13:121 Corinthians 13:12 – Now we – Now we see things see things imperfectly,imperfectly, like like puzzlingpuzzling reflections in a mirror, reflections in a mirror, but then but then we will we will see everything see everything with with perfect clarity. perfect clarity. All that I know All that I know now is now is partialpartial and and incomplete, incomplete, but then I will know everything but then I will know everything completely, just as God now completely, just as God now knows me completely. knows me completely. NLTNLT

2 Timothy 3:16-172 Timothy 3:16-17 – All Scripture – All Scripture is breathed out by God and is breathed out by God and profitable for profitable for teaching, teaching, for for reproof, reproof, for for correction, correction, and for and for training in training in righteousness,righteousness, 1717that the man of that the man of God may be complete, equipped God may be complete, equipped for every good work. for every good work. ESVESV

John 15:7John 15:7 – If you abide in me, – If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. done for you. ESVESV

John 15:5John 15:5 – …without me you – …without me you can do nothing. can do nothing. NLTNLT

Galatians 4:19Galatians 4:19 – my little – my little children, for whom I am again in children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until the anguish of childbirth until Christ is Christ is formedformed in you! in you! ESVESV

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