639 verses about Transformation

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became white and dazzling.

Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

He must increase, but I must decrease.

So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Psalm 119:45

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

All the people saw him walking and praising God.

They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

All who heard him were amazed, and said, “Isn’t this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!”

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.

When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

“When I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,

“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,