Present Yourself Well – A Footballers Story

 

Verses:

1 Peter 3:15-16 – Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life.  And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.  But do this in a gentle and respectful way.  Keep your conscience clear.  Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ (NLT)

Romans 12:1-2 – Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodiea a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (NASV)

Acts 23:33 – When they came to Caesarea and had delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. (NKJV)

Acts 1:1-3 – The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom he also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God (NKJV)

Hebrews 10:16 – This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; (KJV, see also Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26, Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10)

Romans 9:31 – But the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have no attained their goal (NIV 2011)

Romans 3:27 – Where then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. (NIV 2011)

Romans 10:17 – So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (NKJV)

John 5:39 – You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me (NKJV)

2 Corinthians 13:5 – Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you are disqualified. (NKJV)