Helpful Bible Verses for Christian Living
Luke 21:34-35
34“Be careful! Don’t spend your time feasting and drinking. Or don’t be too busy with worldly things. If you do that, you will not be able to think straight. And then that day might come when you are not ready. 35It will close like a trap on all people on earth.
Romans 8:5-8
5Those who live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about the things that the Spirit wants them to do. 6If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is death. But if his thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace. 7This is true because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then he is against God. He refuses to obey God’s law. And really he is not able to obey God’s law. 8Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God.
Romans 12:1-2
1So brothers, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him. This is the spiritual way for you to worship. 2Do not change yourselves to be like the people of this world. But be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you. And you will be able to know what is good and pleasing to God and what is perfect.
II Corinthians 6:14-18
14You are not the same as those who do not believe. So do not join yourselves to them. Good and bad do not belong together. Light and darkness cannot share together. 15How can Christ and Belial, the devil, have any agreement? What can a believer have together with a non-believer? 16The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols. And we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God. And they will be my people.”
17 “Leave those people,and make yourselves pure, says the Lord.
Touch nothing that is unclean, and I will accept you.” Isaiah 52:11; Ezekiel 20:34, 41
18 “I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord All-Powerful.”
2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8
Ephesians 5:11-12
11Do not do the things that people in darkness do. That brings nothing good. But do good things to show that the things done in darkness are wrong. 12It is shameful even to talk about what those people do in secret.
I Timothy 2:8-10
8I want men everywhere to pray. These men who lift up their hands in prayer must be holy. They must not be men who become angry and have arguments.
9I also want women to wear clothes that are right for them. They should dress with respect and right thinking. They should not use fancy braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes to make themselves beautiful. 10But they should make themselves beautiful by doing good deeds. Women who say they worship God should make themselves beautiful in that way.
I Timothy 4:12
12You are young, but do not let anyone treat you as if you were not important. Be an example to show the believers how they should live. Show them with your words, with the way you live, with your love, with your faith, and with your pure life.
Titus 2:12
12It teaches us not to live against God and not to do the evil things the world wants to do. That grace teaches us to live on earth now in a wise and right way—a way that shows that we serve God.
James 4:4
4So, you people are not loyal to God! You should know that loving the world is the same as hating God. So if a person wants to be a friend of the world, he makes himself God’s enemy.
I John 2:15-17
15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16These are the evil things in the world: wanting things to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, being too proud of the things we have. But none of those things comes from the Father. All of them come from the world. 17The world is passing away. And everything that people want in the world is passing away. But the person who does what God wants lives forever.