"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that shall last." (John 15:16) He doesn't choose...

"For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified."(John 17:19) Not that he was not yet consecrated to God, for he was...

"Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth." (John 17:17) Sanctify (Greek: hagiazo means 'to set apart for sacred use; make holy'.)...

"A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not everyone of you."(John...

"Unless I wash you, you have no part with me." (John 13:8) Having loved his own who were in the world, Jesus showed them the full extent...

God chose a band of slaves and rescued them from the hands of the most powerful nation on earth to birth a nation that would bring forth...

"A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign."(Matthew 12:39) Jesus' description of the generation of his time, while...

The High priest Caiaphas and the Governor Pontius Pilate derived their authority by virtue of the positions they held, which were...

"If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own." (John 7:17) The...

"This is my body given for you ... This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you."(Luke 22:19-20) He didn't...

"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." (Luke 23:34) Didn't they really know what they were doing? They thought...

"The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."(...

"If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love."( John 15:10) We...

"Feed my lambs ... Take care of my sheep."( John 21:15-17) Surprisingly, the only question Jesus asked Peter during his job interview...

"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard against men...

'Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made ... Though the world was made through him, the world...

"Be perfect, therefore as your heavenly Father is perfect."(Matthew 5:48) Creation was perfect in God's eyes until it was marred by sin....

"Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."(Matthew 6:4) Almost all of us live two lives: what people see...

"But seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." (Matthew 6:33) Since the Kingdom of...

"For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter...