2Pet 1:3-4 God promises that we can have His nature.
2Tim 4:18 God will deliver us from evil.
Jude 1:24 He is able to keep us from falling.
Phil 4:13 We can do ALL things through Christ, including overcoming sin.
Phil 1:6 If Jesus has gone to the infinite expense to save us, wont He see us through to the end by enabling us to live a righteous life?
Matt 1:21 Jesus whole mission on earth was to save us from our sins.
1Pet 2:24 Once Jesus forgives us for our sins, we become dead to sin and alive to God
John 17:15-20 Even though we are in the world, we dont have to be of the world. God promises to sanctify us through His word.
Matt 5:48 Jesus here commands us to be perfect, or sinless
Roma 6:14,18,22 We can and must be made free from sin
1Joh 3:1-10 This passage clearly indicates that those who claim to be sons of God will not sin.
1Joh 5:18 Those who are born of God wont sin.
Jame 1:12 Only those who endure temptation will receive a crown of life.
Reve 2:7,11,17,26,3:5,12,21
Reve 21:7 This is the ultimate promise, that those who overcome will be children of God.
John 15:5 Christ is the source of our strength.
Reve 3:10 These words, penned to the church at Philadelphia, are still true to Christians today.
Roma 8:1-4 Only Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can enable us to live a holy life.
Ephe 3:20 Not only is God all-powerful, His power works in us.
Phil 2:13 God works in us.
2Cor 2:14 We can always triumph in Christ.
Ephe 2:5-10 (v. 8) We must have faith in Christ in order to triumph over evil.
Roma 10:17 We learn to have faith in Christ by studying the Bible
Psal 119:11 We need to memorize scripture in order to resist temptation.
Luke 17:5 We can pray to God for faith
Mark 9:23-24
John 16:33 Jesus has overcome the world
Matt 4:4,7,10 Jesus said It is written whenever Satan came to him with a temptation.
Matt 4:11 In Gods strength, we can quote scripture to resist temptation and expect the same results
1Pet 2:21-24 We must follow Christs example
Jame 4:7-8 The most vital part to resisting temptation is to submit to God.
Matt 6:13 In the Lords prayer, Jesus prayed for God to protect us from temptation. We should pray the same thing.
Mark 14:38 These instructions to the disciples can be applied to all of Christs followers in all ages.
Psal 17:5 We should pray this prayer when we feel the pull of temptation
1Cor 10:13 God doesnt allow a temptation to come to us that we cant bear, and he provides the strength to resist the temptations.
Psalm 103:14 God knows our weakness, and He wont let any temptation come that is too strong for us to bear.
Gala 1:4 God promises to deliver us from evil.
John 17:15 Jesus prayed that God would keep us from evil.
Phil 4:13 Christ can enable us to do all things, including overcoming sin.
Mark 14:36 All things are possible to God, and He will do them for us if they are according to His will.
Mica 7:8 When we fall, we dont have to stay down, we shall arise.
Psalm 37:23-24 Though we fall, God will hold us up.
1Joh 2:1-2 Notice the phrase That ye sin not.
2Cor 5:17-21 Those who have Christs indwelling presence become a new creature.
Hebr 4:15-16 Christ resisted temptation, and he promises to give us the grace, or power, to help.
Rom 12:2 We must have a new mind.
Hebr 13:12 We are sanctified (enabled to live a holy life) through Jesus blood.
Tit 2:11-12 Gods grace enables us to live a victorious life
1Joh 5:4 Our faith in Christ is what enables us to overcome
1Cor 15:57 God gives us the victory.
Isai 41:10 Jesus promises to hold us up by His righteousness.
Rom 8:34-39 Nothing in the world can seperate us from Christs love, which is His enabling power.
Heb 7:25 He can save us to the uttermost.
2Pet 3:9 God will never break His promises.
2Cor 12:9
Ezek 18:30-32
Isa 55:6-7
2Chr 7:14
1Joh 1:9
Isaiah 1:18
Ezek 36:25-27
Jer 3:12-13
Psal 32:1-5
Prov 28:13
Acts 3:19
Psal 51:1-2, 7-14,
Mica 7:18-19
Isa 43:25
We must repent of our past sins and allow Christ to make a new heart in us. Without our past sins forgiven, there would be no way to resist evil. This is why Jesus died: to forgive our sins so that we can be free to accept his power and live the victorious Christian life. Justification (having our past sins pardoned) is vital and must preceed Sanctification (living the victorious Christian life).
Levi 8:30 In the Old Testament, the blood of animals was a symbol of sanctification.
Heb 9:13-14 Jesus death was the antitype of this ceremony
Reve 12:11 The only way to overcome is by Jesus blood.
Hebr 13:12 We are sanctified (enabled to live a holy life) through Jesus blood.
Hebr 13:20-21 By the power of Jesus blood, we are enabled to live the victorious Christian life.
Heb 10:29
Roma 8:14-17 According to the Bible, we actually become the children of God
Gala 3:26
John 3:3-8 We must be born again into this family
1Pet 1:23
Hebr 8:7-12 This is the new covenant: that God would write His law in our hearts and then enable us to keep it.
Ezek 36:25-27