What may be known about God is plain... because God has made it plain... For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.(Romans 1:19-20, NIV)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said... 'Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it...' God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.(Gen 1:1,27,28,31, NKJV)
The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge. There is no speech nor are there words -their voice is not heard -yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth.(Psalm 19:1-4, ISV)
As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. For who is God, except the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?(Psalm 18:30-31, NKJV)
Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures. Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve You.(Psalm 119:89-91, NIV)
The God who made the world and everything in it – He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands. Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things. From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. He did this so they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and exist...(Acts 17:24-28, HCSB)
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who diligently search for Him.(Heb 11:6, ISV)
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.(John 4:24, NASB)
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.(John 3:16, NIV)
Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.(John 17:3, NIV)
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'(John 8:12, ESV)
Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.(John 14:1, NASB)
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)
For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.(John 18:37, NASB)
Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.(Romans 10:17, ESV)
I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.(2 Cor 6:2, NIV)
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures...(1 Cor 15:3-4, NIV)
Now I understand that God shows no partiality. Indeed, whoever fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him in any nation... All the prophets testify to this: everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through His name.(Acts 10:34-35,43, ISV)
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.(Romans 10:9-10, ESV)
You, man of God... pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called...(1 Tim 6:11-12, NIV)
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.(Heb 3:14, ESV)
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.(2 Cor 5:17, ESV)
You have today declared the LORD to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice. The LORD has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you...(Deut 26:17-18, NASB)
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.(Romans 15:13, NASB)
God is light and in Him is no darkness at all... If we walk in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin... If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(1 John 1:5-9, NKJV)
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness...(Isa 61:10, KJV)
