Spirituality
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Described as the great and enduring good
Luke 10:42
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Luke 10:42 -
Defined as love and devotion to God
Deut 6:5; Josh 22:5; 1 Kgs 8:23; Ps 1:2; 51:6
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy 6:55 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:523 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
1 Kings 8:232 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms 1:26 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Psalms 51:6 -
Brings peace
Isa 26:3; Jer 33:6; Rom 8:6; 14:17
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 26:36 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Jeremiah 33:66 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Romans 8:617 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Romans 14:17 -
Brings indifference to worldly good
1 Cor 7:29–31; Col 3:1–3
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
1 Corinthians 7:291 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:1 -
Engenders thirst for heavenly blessings
Matt 5:6; John 6:27
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:627 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John 6:27 -
Is produced by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
John 14:16, 17; Rom 8:4
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:1617 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 14:174 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:4
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
