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Irish Hare, post:1, topic:310038"]
I’m trying to find the Bible reference I heard after Christmas at Mass. I’ve searched for it on Google, but, bizzarrely, without success.
Here it is:
‘‘I urge you to give up everything that does not lead to God.’’
Could not find the precise quote; but these Do support hat message
1Sam.14: 36 Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and despoil them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near hither to God.”
Ps.51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Jonah.3: 8 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
Luke 10: 25 He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Rom.12: 1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
1Pet.2: 5 and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ
Rom.13: 12,14 “the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Eph.4: 24 “And put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Eph.6: 11, 14 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Col.3: 10,12, 14 and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
1Thes.5: 8 But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.
