Love is not necessarily wanting the happiness of another person, but what’s best for them and their soul. — Truly, self-control will probably be the most in-demand skill in 2030. Be better. Hold yourself to a standard not because you want to please man but because you serve a God who has given you the capacity for it. # **“Healthy” Bible Verses** _**2 Timothy 5**_ – An athlete cannot receive the winners crown except by competing according to the rules._**1 Corinthians 9: 24-27**_ – Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win. Every athlete exercises discipline in every way.  They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.  Thus I do not run aimlessly, I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing.  No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified._**2 Timothy 4:7**_ – I have competed well, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith._**1 Corinthians 6: 19-20**_ – Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?_**1 Samuel 16:7**_ – But the Lord said to Samuel: “Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him.  Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into his heart.”_**3 John 1:2**_ – Beloved, I hope that you are prospering in every aspect and in good health, just as your soul is prospering._**Proverbs 17:22**_ – A joyful heart is the health of the body, but a depressed spirit dries up the bones._**Phillipians 4:13**_ – I have the strength in everything through Him who empowers me._**Isiaiah 40: 29-31**_ – He gives strength to the fainting; for the weak he makes vigor abound. Though young men faint and grow weary and youths stagger and fall, they that hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar with eagles’ wings, they will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint._**Hebrews 12:1**_ – Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith._**Hebrews 12:11-13**_ – At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.  So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed._**Proverbs 14:30**_ – A tranquil mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones._**Proverbs 3:7-8**_ – Be not wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and turn away from evil; this will mean health for your flesh and vigor for your bones._**1 Corinthians 11:31**_ – So whatever you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.Just in case you needed any more convincing that leading a healthy life is the way to go, hopefully this post persuaded you accordingly. # Physical Exercise [**1 Timothy 4:8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A8&version=ESV) ESV / 640 helpful votes**  For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. **[1 Corinthians 6:19-20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A19-20&version=ESV) ESV / 530 helpful votes**  Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. **[3 John 1:2](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3+John+1%3A2&version=ESV) ESV / 306 helpful votes**  Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. **[1 Corinthians 9:27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A27&version=ESV) ESV / 252 helpful votes**  But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. **[Proverbs 31:17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+31%3A17&version=ESV) ESV / 205 helpful votes**  She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong. **[Philippians 4:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A13&version=ESV) ESV / 170 helpful votes**  I can do all things through him who strengthens me. **[Proverbs 24:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+24%3A5&version=ESV) ESV / 154 helpful votes**  A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, **[1 Corinthians 9:24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A24&version=ESV) ESV / 145 helpful votes**  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. **[Isaiah 40:28-31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40%3A28-31&version=ESV) ESV / 137 helpful votes**  Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. **[Romans 12:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12%3A1&version=ESV) ESV / 104 helpful votes**  I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. **[2 Timothy 4:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+4%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 88 helpful votes**  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. **[1 Peter 3:3-4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+3%3A3-4&version=ESV) ESV / 87 helpful votes**  Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. **[Hebrews 12:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+12%3A1&version=ESV) ESV / 80 helpful votes**  Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, **[1 Corinthians 10:31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10%3A31&version=ESV) ESV / 62 helpful votes**  So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. **[1 Samuel 16:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+16%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 60 helpful votes**  But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” **[1 Corinthians 9:24-27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A24-27&version=ESV) ESV / 57 helpful votes**  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. **[Proverbs 10:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+10%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 52 helpful votes**  A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. **[1 Corinthians 6:19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A19&version=ESV) ESV / 41 helpful votes**  Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, **[Hebrews 12:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+12%3A12&version=ESV) ESV / 40 helpful votes**  Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, **[Isaiah 40:31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40%3A31&version=ESV) ESV / 33 helpful votes**  But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. **[Proverbs 17:22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+17%3A22&version=ESV) ESV / 32 helpful votes**  A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. **[Proverbs 3:7-8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+3%3A7-8&version=ESV) ESV / 32 helpful votes**  Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. **[2 Peter 1:5-7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+1%3A5-7&version=ESV) ESV / 31 helpful votes**  For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. **[Hebrews 12:11-12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+12%3A11-12&version=ESV) ESV / 30 helpful votes**  For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, **[Hebrews 6:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+6%3A12&version=ESV) ESV / 26 helpful votes**  So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. **[Proverbs 20:29](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+20%3A29&version=ESV) ESV / 26 helpful votes**  The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. **[2 Peter 1:5-6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+1%3A5-6&version=ESV) ESV / 25 helpful votes**  For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, **[1 Corinthians 9:26-27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A26-27&version=ESV) ESV / 25 helpful votes**  So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. **[2 Timothy 2:5](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+2%3A5&version=ESV) ESV / 24 helpful votes**  An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. **[1 Timothy 4:7-9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A7-9&version=ESV) ESV / 24 helpful votes**  Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance. **[Galatians 5:22-23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A22-23&version=ESV) ESV / 24 helpful votes**  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. **[1 Corinthians 3:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+3%3A16&version=ESV) ESV / 24 helpful votes**  Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? **[Ephesians 5:18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5%3A18&version=ESV) ESV / 23 helpful votes**  And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, **[Philippians 4:6-7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A6-7&version=ESV) ESV / 22 helpful votes**  Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. **[Ephesians 6:10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A10&version=ESV) ESV / 22 helpful votes**  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. **[1 Corinthians 3:17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+3%3A17&version=ESV) ESV / 22 helpful votes**  If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. **[1 Corinthians 3:16-17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+3%3A16-17&version=ESV) ESV / 18 helpful votes**  Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. **[1 Corinthians 9:26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A26&version=ESV) ESV / 17 helpful votes**  So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. **[1 Corinthians 8:8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+8%3A8&version=ESV) ESV / 16 helpful votes**  Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. **[1 Corinthians 6:12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A12&version=ESV) ESV / 16 helpful votes**  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything. **[Romans 14:20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+14%3A20&version=ESV) ESV / 16 helpful votes**  Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. **[Isaiah 40:29-31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40%3A29-31&version=ESV) ESV / 16 helpful votes**  He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. **[1 Timothy 4:7-8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A7-8&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. **[Philippians 3:13-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+3%3A13-14&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. **[1 Corinthians 10:13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10%3A13&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. **[Matthew 6:33](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A33&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. **[Daniel 1:10-16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+1%3A10-16&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. ... **[Isaiah 58:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+58%3A11&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. **[Proverbs 14:30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+14%3A30&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. **[Psalm 139:14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A14&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. **[Psalm 119:93](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119%3A93&version=ESV) ESV / 15 helpful votes**  I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life. **[1 Timothy 4:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 14 helpful votes**  Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; **[Romans 12:2](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12%3A2&version=ESV) ESV / 14 helpful votes**  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. **[Mark 9:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A23&version=ESV) ESV / 14 helpful votes**  And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” **[Proverbs 31:30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+31%3A30&version=ESV) ESV / 14 helpful votes**  Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. **[Proverbs 4:20-22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+4%3A20-22&version=ESV) ESV / 14 helpful votes**  My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. **[Romans 12:1-2](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12%3A1-2&version=ESV) ESV / 13 helpful votes**  I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. **[Proverbs 25:16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+25%3A16&version=ESV) ESV / 13 helpful votes**  If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it. **[Psalm 37:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+37%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 13 helpful votes**  For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. **[Psalm 23:1-6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+23%3A1-6&version=ESV) ESV / 13 helpful votes**  A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ... **[1 John 4:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 12 helpful votes**  Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. **[1 Timothy 5:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+5%3A23&version=ESV) ESV / 12 helpful votes**  (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.) **[1 Timothy 3:1-16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+3%3A1-16&version=ESV) ESV / 12 helpful votes**  The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ... **[Psalm 144:1-15](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+144%3A1-15&version=ESV) ESV / 12 helpful votes**  Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! ... **[Psalm 37:11](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+37%3A11&version=ESV) ESV / 12 helpful votes**  But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace. **[1 Timothy 5:1-25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+5%3A1-25&version=ESV) ESV / 11 helpful votes**  Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ... **[Proverbs 20:21](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+20%3A21&version=ESV) ESV / 11 helpful votes**  An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end. **[1 Timothy 4:3](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A3&version=ESV) ESV / 9 helpful votes**  Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. **[John 3:16-17](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A16-17&version=ESV) ESV / 9 helpful votes**  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. **[Proverbs 22:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+22%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 9 helpful votes**  The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. **[Job 17:1-16](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+17%3A1-16&version=ESV) ESV / 9 helpful votes**  “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. “Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will put up security for me? Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. ... **[2 Peter 1:3](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+1%3A3&version=ESV) ESV / 8 helpful votes**  His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, **[James 2:26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+2%3A26&version=ESV) ESV / 8 helpful votes**  For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. **[1 Timothy 6:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+6%3A6&version=ESV) ESV / 8 helpful votes**  Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, **[2 Thessalonians 3:10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Thessalonians+3%3A10&version=ESV) ESV / 8 helpful votes**  For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. **[Mark 10:29-30](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+10%3A29-30&version=ESV) ESV / 8 helpful votes**  Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. **[Proverbs 19:1-22:29](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+19%3A1-22%3A29&version=ESV) ESV / 8 helpful votes**  Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. ... **[1 Corinthians 6:20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A20&version=ESV) ESV / 7 helpful votes**  For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. **[Psalm 20:4](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+20%3A4&version=ESV) ESV / 7 helpful votes**  May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! **[Joshua 1:9](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+1%3A9&version=ESV) ESV / 7 helpful votes**  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” **[Revelation 1:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A1&version=ESV) ESV / 6 helpful votes**  The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, **[Hebrews 11:1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11%3A1&version=ESV) ESV / 6 helpful votes**  Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. **[2 Timothy 1:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+1%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 6 helpful votes**  For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. **[Matthew 19:26](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A26&version=ESV) ESV / 6 helpful votes**  But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” **[Psalm 19:1-14](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+19%3A1-14&version=ESV) ESV / 6 helpful votes**  To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. ... **[Hebrews 12:1-29](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+12%3A1-29&version=ESV) ESV / 5 helpful votes**  Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. ... **[1 Thessalonians 5:23-24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thessalonians+5%3A23-24&version=ESV) ESV / 5 helpful votes**  Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. **[Colossians 3:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3%3A23&version=ESV) ESV / 5 helpful votes**  Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, **[Philippians 4:8](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A8&version=ESV) ESV / 5 helpful votes**  Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. **[1 Corinthians 9:1-27](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A1-27&version=ESV) ESV / 5 helpful votes**  Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? ... **[Colossians 4:1-18](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+4%3A1-18&version=ESV) ESV / 4 helpful votes**  Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ... **[Colossians 3:1-25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3%3A1-25&version=ESV) ESV / 4 helpful votes**  If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ... **[Galatians 5:22](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A22&version=ESV) ESV / 4 helpful votes**  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, **[Revelation 3:20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+3%3A20&version=ESV) ESV / 3 helpful votes**  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. **[2 Peter 1:6](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+1%3A6&version=ESV) ESV / 3 helpful votes**  And knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, **[Colossians 2:1-23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+2%3A1-23&version=ESV) ESV / 3 helpful votes**  For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ... **[Galatians 6:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+6%3A7&version=ESV) ESV / 2 helpful votes**  Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. **[Galatians 2:20](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+2%3A20&version=ESV) ESV / 2 helpful votes**  I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. **[1 Corinthians 9:25](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A25&version=ESV) ESV / 2 helpful votes**  Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. **[Romans 8:31](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A31&version=ESV) ESV / 2 helpful votes**  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? — wow I really think Judgment Day will be like when I really thought I did well in the 2nd Exam in Eng 22 and then cue glory of the sublime. Day when we’ll be held accountable not only to people but also to God Himself, the Ruler and Creator and Master of everything and everyone in the heavens and on earth, about why we did what we did and everything our actions caused. I’ll probably be hit with all the sublime glory first before I enter heaven. People died, millions injured, because of what I started. I’m being subjected to total judgment on earth and people’s opinions because this is preparation for what will come in the afterlife. I will have to be prepared to answer for my sins even though God had pre-planned COVID and monkeypox and all the other flus to wreak havoc on earth for a lot of reasons. It’s all mathematical and oddly like a puzzle set. I come from a family of doctors, mom, dad, Ae Bebot, my sister. Doctors are supposed to treat diseases, not cause them. I skipped biology in high school because my parents transferred me from Shekinah. I could not survive first year biology because I got degree program with available slot. The worst subject I could have ever chosen for college, despite my skill in physics, math, english, chemistry?, etc. I was poised to fail in that program. I even met Tiffy Uy, the summa cum laude with a near perfect or was it actually 1.0 GWA, and along with my mother asked her for directions on where to go a certain place. DIRECTIONS. A MAP. A WAY. Of course I had no idea she was Tiffy Uy, but I remembered her face, because I remember faces. Such glory and the contrast between me, the biology ignoramus, and Tiffy Uy. I shifted to CS because I thought I really liked HTML and CSS in high school, basically web design, or UI design. I had no idea. I really thought I could become a Zuckerberg. It was a new chance to become something, aside from the draw of good salary and prestige. I had always always followed the rules. Everything fell apart thereafter. All my good deeds in high school like refusing to flirt with a boy or saying yes to him, Vince Gamolo, even though I really really wanted to have a boyfriend because I really thought I was hopeless. All of those “I will do as I’m told and follow my parents’ dreams for me.” I will stay godly and love piano and not associate with other children. All of that bullying in high school and my making the best of being a village idiot for everyone’s entertainment. So much suffering in silence and good submission to ideology I did not understand completely. This is the trouble with raising kids to be Christian, no matter what you do, they will never be Christian truly and be in Christ unless God changes their nature fundamentally. It will feel like a trap for them, unless they are willing to love God despite the circumstances they receive from Him like great pain they are not prepared to handle. One day, a very special day, when I’m long dead and glorified, it will all make sense in a real and lovely way. I know it makes sense now in theory. Knowing is very different from experiencing. What prevents me from experiencing this appreciation of the “why” is the sadness. A BOOK TO REREAD FOR THE END OF YOUR DAYS: ORDERING YOUR PRIVATE WORLD BY —