Spirituality

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Described as the great and enduring good

• Luke 10:42 But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Defined as love and devotion to God

• Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
• Joshua 22:5 But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
• 1 Kings 8:23 and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
• Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
• Psalm 51:6 Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Brings peace

• Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
• Jeremiah 33:6 Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
• Romans 8:6 The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
• Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Brings indifference to worldly good

• 1 Corinthians 7:29–31 What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing; and those who use the things of this world, as i…
• Colossians 3:1–3 Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

Engenders thirst for heavenly blessings

• Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
• John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”

Is produced by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit

• John 14:16–17 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
• Romans 8:4 so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.