Bible Verses About The Christian Life

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Direct conduct passage

In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Commandments, love, and walking in his ways are explicitly tied to life

For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Walking in God's ways and cleaving to him are tied to obedience

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

If only this life, Christian hope is vain

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Scriptures testify to eternal life in Christ

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

direct Bible passage on walking in commandments

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Old Testament command about walking in God's way

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

direct Bible call to holy conduct

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Another commandment/walking passage

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Gospel-worthy conduct fits this section

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

General rule of walking in statutes

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Bible call to holy conversation

The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

Blameless holy people if they keep commandments

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Good conscience and good conversation

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Sound speech and blameless conduct

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Purifies conscience from dead works to serve God

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Bible summary of holy living

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Bible call to cleanse flesh and spirit

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

citizenship in heaven as Christian orientation

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Bible call away from uncleanness

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

alive to God in Christ

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Holy and blameless before God

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Holy, righteous, blameless conduct

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Grace-filled speech and answering rightly

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

classic life-in-Christ verse

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Putting on the new self

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

concise life is Christ verse

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

Holiness and righteousness all days of life

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Christ described as your life