You Complete Me
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These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
You have made known to me the paths of life;
you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well.”
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.
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
A saved mind
A saved mind
This verse says that God has given us a “sound mind.” This comes from the Greek word sophroneo, and it is a compound of the words sozo and phroneo. The word sozo is the Greek word for salvation. It means deliverance, protection, and soundness. The word phroneo is the root for the word mind. When these two words are put together as in this verse, the new word is translated sound mind. The idea presented by the word sophroneo is a mind that is saved and protected or a mind that is sound. It is just the opposite of a mind given to fear, panic, or unfounded and unreasonable thinking. This word describes a mind that is thinking correctly!
for he is like one who is inwardly calculating.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.