Scriptural Confirmations (Whitehead) n. 84

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84. Two. The animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot know them (1 Cor. 2:14). The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God (1 Cor. 3:19). Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19, 20)? Ye are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God (1 Cor. 6:11). God doth not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation make also a way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it (1 Cor. 10:13). Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but that we are sufficient is from God, who hath made us sufficient as ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter but of the spirit: for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life (2 Cor. 3:5, 6). The god of this age hath blinded the sense of the unbelieving that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them (2 Cor. 4:4). If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Cor. 5:17). Ye are a temple of the living God; as God hath said, for I will dwell in them and walk around in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (2 Cor. 6:16). I have espoused you to one man, that I might present a pure virgin to Christ (2 Cor. 11:2).


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