Romans 7:15 ESV For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Proverbs 25:4 ESV Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel
Proverbs 21:2 ESV Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Proverbs 20:1 puts it this way: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.”
1 Corinthians 6:19 talks about respecting our bodies because: “[…] your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, […]”
“casting all [my] anxieties on [God], because he cares for [me],” according to 1 Peter 5:7
Jesus said in John 14:12 ESV “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
John 15:26 ESV “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Deuteronomy 4:28-29 ESV And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.