Bible verses about "godliness" | Great

¹⁹ Ether knowe ye not, how that youre bodyes are the temple of the holy ghost, which dwelleth in you, whom ye haue of God, and how that ye are not youre awne? ²⁰ For ye are dearly bought. Therfore glorifye God in youre bodyes, and in youre spretes, which are Goddes.

⁷ But cast awaye vngostly and olde wyues fables. Exercyse thy selfe rather vnto godlynes. ⁸ For bodely exercyse profyteth lytell: but godlynes is profytable vnto all thynges, as a thinge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is nowe, & of the lyfe to come.

¹⁷ Charge them which are ryche in this world, that they be not hye mynded, ner trust in vncertayne ryches, but in the lyuinge God (which geueth vs aboundauntly all thynges to enioye them) ¹⁸ that they do good: that they be riche in good workes: that they be redy to geue & gladly to distribute, ¹⁹ laying vp in store for them selues a good fundacion against the tyme to come, that they maye obtayne eternall lyfe.

⁶ Godlynes is greate ryches If a man be content with that he hath. ⁷ For we brought nothynge into the worlde, nether maye we cary any thynge out.

²⁰ But ye derlye beloued, edifye youre selues in your most holy fayth, prayinge in the holy goost, ²¹ and kepe your selues in the loue of God, lokynge for the mercy of oure Lord Iesus Christ, vnto eternall lyfe.

³³ But rather seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of God, and the ryghteousnesse therof, and al these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

⁴ For ther are certayne vngodly men craftely crept in, of which it was written afore tyme vnto such iudgement. They turne the grace of oure God vnto wantannes, and denye God (which is the onely Lorde) and oure Lorde Iesus Christ.

⁸ I will shewe the, O man, what is good, & what the Lorde requyreth of the Namely, to do right, to haue pleasure in louinge kyndnesse, to be lowly, & to walcke wt thy God,

¹ I beseche you therfore brethren, by the mercyfulnes of God, that ye make yor bodies a quycke sacryfice, holy & acceptable vnto God: which is youre resonable seruynge of God

¹ Seynge that we haue soche promyses (dearely beloued) lett vs clense oure selues from all filthynes of the flesshe and sprete, and growe vp to full holynes wyth the feare of God.

⁷ in godlynes brotherly kyndnes, in brotherly kyndnes loue.

⁵ hauynge a symilitude of godlynesse, but haue denyed the power therof: and soch abhorre.

¹ Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the councel of the vngodly, ner stonde in the waye of sinners, & hath not sytt in the seate of the scornefull. ² But hys delyte is in the lawe of the Lorde: and in his lawe will he exercise him selfe daye & night. ³ And he shalbe lyke a tre planted by the watersyde, that wyll brynge forth hys frute in due season. His leafe also shall not wither: & loke whatsoeuer he doth, it shall prospere.

¹² Yee, and all they that wyll lyue godly in Christ Iesu shall suffre persecutyon.

⁵ And herunto geue all diligence: in youre fayth mynyster vertue: in vertue knowledge: ⁶ in knowledge temperaunce, in temperaunce pacience: in pacience godlynes, ⁷ in godlynes brotherly kyndnes, in brotherly kyndnes loue. ⁸ For yf these thynges be amonge you, and be plenteous, thy wyll make you that ye nether shalbe ydle nor vnfrutefull in the knowledge of oure Lorde Iesus Christ.

⁶ Godlynes is greate ryches If a man be content with that he hath.

¹¹ Seyng then that all these thinges shal perishe, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersacyon, and godlynes:

⁸ For bodely exercyse profyteth lytell: but godlynes is profytable vnto all thynges, as a thinge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is nowe, & of the lyfe to come.