JOHN 16.24
until now you asked nothing in My Name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
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ROMANS 7.18
for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
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2 CORINTHIANS 12.7
and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted too much, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, that he might batter me, that I might not be exalted too much.
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PSALM 26.2
Try me, O YHWH, and prove me, || My reins and my heart [are] purified,
PSALM 139.23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart, || Try me, and know my thoughts, And see if a grievous way be in me, || And lead me in a perpetual way!
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MATTHEW 10.38
and whoever does not receive his cross and follow after Me, is not worthy of Me.