Ten of Martin Luther's theses from October 31, 1517. 

 
 

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?  By no means!  ¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?  ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸ You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 
¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations.  Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.  ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.  ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of?  Those things result in death!  ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.  ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6:15-23 -- NIV)

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Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 

(Psalm 95:6 -- NIV)

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan!  For it is written:  'Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.'"   

(Matthew 4:10 -- NIV)

 

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By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.  (Hebrews 11:3 -- NIV)

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

(Philippians 2:14-16 -- ESV)

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Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. ¹⁴ But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

(Matthew 7:13-14 -- NIV)

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“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

 

(1 Peter 2:24 -- NIV)

 

 

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if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

 

(2 Chronicles 7:14 -- NIV)

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We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 

 

(1 John 5:19 -- NIV)

 

 

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In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

(Matthew 5:16 -- NIV)

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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

(John 3:16-18 -- NIV)

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And I will put enmity
between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.

(Genesis 3:15 -- NIV)

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Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

(John 14:6 -- ESV)

And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 

(Genesis 1:9-10 -- NIV)

John MacArthur said, "If the moon did not remain in its exact distance from the earth, the ocean tide would inundate the land completely twice a day.  And after the first one, we wouldn't care about the second one."

Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray continually, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

(1Thessalonians 5:16-18 -- NIV)

And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
(Genesis 1:14-19 -- NIV)

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