PHILIPPIANS 3:8-9
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
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PSALM 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
PSALM 119:130
The unfolding of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple.
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LUKE 2:47
And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.
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HEBREWS 12:1-2
12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
ROMANS 6:6
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
ROMANS 6:11
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.