(Picture is from one of our backpacking trips)
Obedience
Attitudes/behaviors that hinder/are detrimental to growth/a heart of obedience:
1 Peter 2:1
malice, guile, hypocrisies, envies, evil speaking, deceit, insincerity (pretense,
grudges, jealousy) and slander.
Ephesians 4:25-32
falsity, wrath, stealing, foul or polluting language, evil words, unwholesome/worthless
talk, bitterness, indignation (rage, bad temper), resentment,
quarreling (contention), slander, malice (spite, ill will).
Colossians 3:5-9
sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, greed, covetousness, anger,
rage, bad feeling toward others, curses, slander, foul mouthed abuse,
shameful utterances, lying.
Attitudes/behaviors that enrich life as a Christian (cultivate these):
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babes you should crave the pure spiritual milk, that by it you
may by nurtured and grow unto salvation.
Ephesians 4:25-32
express the truth with his neighbor; do not ever let your wrath last until the sun
goes down; be industrious, make an honest living with your own hands so that you
can give to those in need; good/beneficial speech to the spiritual progress of
others, that it may be a blessing and give grace to those to those who hear it;
become useful and helpful and kind to one another, tenderhearted (compassionate
and understanding) forgiving one another.
Colossians 3:1-17
purified, holy, tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of
yourselves, gentle ways, patience, forbearing one another, readily pardoning one
another, love, peace, thankful.
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