becoming a christian

Isaiah Chapter 1:1

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah Chapter 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah Chapter 1:3

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Isaiah Chapter 1:4

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Isaiah Chapter 1:5

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah Chapter 1:6

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isaiah Chapter 1:7

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah Chapter 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Isaiah Chapter 1:9

Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Isaiah Chapter 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah Chapter 1:11

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

Isaiah Chapter 1:12

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Isaiah Chapter 1:13

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isaiah Chapter 1:14

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

Isaiah Chapter 1:15

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah Chapter 1:16

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Isaiah Chapter 1:17

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah Chapter 1:18

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah Chapter 1:19

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Isaiah Chapter 1:20

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Isaiah Chapter 1:21

How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Isaiah Chapter 1:22

Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

Isaiah Chapter 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah Chapter 1:24

Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

Isaiah Chapter 1:25

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Isaiah Chapter 1:26

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Isaiah Chapter 1:27

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Isaiah Chapter 1:28

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

Isaiah Chapter 1:29

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Isaiah Chapter 1:30

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Isaiah Chapter 1:31

And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

John Chapter 1:12

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John Chapter 3:3

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John Chapter 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John Chapter 3:36

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

John Chapter 14:1

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John Chapter 14:2

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

John Chapter 14:3

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John Chapter 14:4

And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

John Chapter 14:5

Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

John Chapter 14:6

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John Chapter 14:7

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John Chapter 14:8

Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

John Chapter 14:9

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

John Chapter 14:10

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

John Chapter 14:11

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

John Chapter 14:12

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John Chapter 14:13

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John Chapter 14:14

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

John Chapter 14:15

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John Chapter 14:16

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

John Chapter 14:17

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John Chapter 14:18

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

John Chapter 14:19

Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

John Chapter 14:20

At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

John Chapter 14:21

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John Chapter 14:22

Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

John Chapter 14:23

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John Chapter 14:24

He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

John Chapter 14:25

These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

John Chapter 14:26

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John Chapter 14:27

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John Chapter 14:28

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

John Chapter 14:29

And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

John Chapter 14:30

Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

John Chapter 14:31

But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

John Chapter 15:1

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

John Chapter 15:2

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

John Chapter 15:3

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

John Chapter 15:4

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

John Chapter 15:5

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John Chapter 15:6

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

John Chapter 15:7

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

John Chapter 15:8

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

John Chapter 15:9

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

John Chapter 15:10

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

John Chapter 15:11

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

John Chapter 15:12

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

John Chapter 15:13

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John Chapter 15:14

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

John Chapter 15:15

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

John Chapter 15:16

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

John Chapter 15:17

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

John Chapter 15:18

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

John Chapter 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John Chapter 15:20

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

John Chapter 15:21

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

John Chapter 15:22

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

John Chapter 15:23

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

John Chapter 15:24

If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

John Chapter 15:25

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

John Chapter 15:26

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

John Chapter 15:27

And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

Acts Chapter 2:38

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts Chapter 2:39

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Acts Chapter 2:40

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

Acts Chapter 2:41

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Romans Chapter 3:23

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans Chapter 5:8

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans Chapter 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans Chapter 10:9

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

2 Corinthians Chapter 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians Chapter 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Galatians Chapter 5:23

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Ephesians Chapter 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Ephesians Chapter 2:9

Not of works, lest any man should boast.