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Virtuous Dispositions
-Toward Following God-
God uses scripture to teach his people what disposition they must have in the faith.
This list of virtues directs the believer's heart and mind towards following God.
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Sincere (Sincerity)
Instruction
Joshua 24:14 KJV — “Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.”
Imploration
2 Corinthians 8:8 KJV — “I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”
Philippians 1:9-10 KJV - "9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;"
Titus 2:6-7 KJV - "6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,"
Implication
Ephesians 6:24 KJV — “Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.”
Testimonials
2 Corinthians 1:12 KJV — “For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.”
2 Corinthians 2:17 KJV — “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”
Sincere
Instruction
Ephesians 6:5 KJV — "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;" (See Colossians 3:22)
Singleness is simplicity with sincerity
A solemn thing is sacred and observed with seriousness and veneration
Singleness
Desire (Desired)
Instruction
1 Peter 2:2-3 KJV - "2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."
Testimonials
Acts 13:7 KJV — “Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.”
Desire
Affirmation
Psalm 63:1 KJV - "A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;"
Psalm 84:2 KJV - "My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."
Singleness is simplicity with sincerity
A solemn thing is sacred and observed with seriousness and veneration
Longeth
Attentive (Attentively)
Instruction
Job 37:1-5 KJV - "1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. 2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. 3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. 4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard. 5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend."
Testimonials
Nehemiah 8:3 KJV - "And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law."
Luke 19:47-48 KJV - "47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, 48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him."
Attentive
Instruction
Joshua 24:23 KJV - "Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel."
Psalm 45:10 KJV - "Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;"
Psalm 78:1-2 KJV - "1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:"
Proverbs 4:20 KJV - "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings."
Learning
1 Kings 8:57-58 KJV - "57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: 58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers."
Psalm 119:36 KJV - "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.”
Psalm 141:4 KJV - "Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties."
Implication
Proverbs 2:1-5 KJV - "1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God."
Isaiah 55:3 KJV - "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David."
affirmation
Psalm 49:4 KJV - "I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp."
Testimonials
Psalm 119:112 KJV – “I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end."
Incline
Willing (Willingly)
Instruction
1 Chronicles 28:9 KJV — "And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever."
Wisdom
Matthew 26:41 KJV — “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
2 Corinthians 8:12 KJV — “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.”
Implication
1 Corinthians 9:17 KJV — “For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.”
Affirmation
Hebrews 13:18 KJV — “Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.”
Testimonials
Proverbs 31:13 KJV — “She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.”
Willing
Instruction
Romans 13:1, 5 KJV — “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God…. 5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.”
Imploration
Hebrews 12:9 KJV — “Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”
Testimonials
2 Corinthians 9:13 KJV — “Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;”
Subject
Instruction
James 4:7 KJV — “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
1 Peter 2:13 KJV — “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well."
Submit
Yield (Yielded)
Instruction
2 Chronicles 30:8 KJV - "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you."
Romans 6:13 KJV — “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Romans 6:16 KJV — “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
Romans 6:19 KJV — “I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”
Testimonials
Daniel 3:28 KJV - "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God."
Yield
Testimonials
2 Timothy 1:12 KJV — "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."
1 Peter 2:21-24 KJV — "21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."
Committed
Instruction
Proverbs 3:1 KJV - "My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:"
Learning
Psalm 78:5-7 KJV - "5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:"
Wisdom
Psalm 25:10 KJV - "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies."
Implication
Psalm 119:2 KJV - "Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart."
Affirmation
Psalm 119:33 KJV - "HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end."
Psalm 119:34 KJV - "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart."
Psalm 119:69 KJV - "The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart."
Psalm 119:115 KJV - "Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God."
Testimonials
Psalm 119:100 KJV - "I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts."
Psalm 119:129 KJV - "PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them."
Psalm 119:145-149 KJV - "145 KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. 146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. 147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. 149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.”
Used here, the word keep is the Hebrew word Natsar; meaning to guard.
It is applied by keeping the subject matter in the heart to remember.
Keep
Diligent (Diligently)
Instruction
Deuteronomy 4:9 KJV - "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;"
Deuteronomy 6:17 KJV - "Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee."
Joshua 22:5 KJV - "But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Psalm 119:4 KJV - "Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently."
Hebrews 12:15 KJV - "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;"
Implication
Exodus 15:26 KJV - "And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee."
Deuteronomy 11:13-15 KJV - "13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full."
Deuteronomy 11:22-28 KJV - "22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known."
Deuteronomy 28:1-13 KJV - "1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:"
Hebrews 11:6 KJV - "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Diligent
Instruction
John 14:15 KJV — "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
John 15:9-10 KJV — "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."
1 Timothy 6:11 KJV — "But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness."
1 John 5:3 KJV — "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
2 John 1:6 KJV — "And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it."
Jude 1:21 KJV — "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."
Wisdom
John 14:21 KJV — "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
John 14:23 KJV — "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."
Galatians 5:6 KJV — "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
1 John 2:5 KJV — "But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him."
1 John 5:2 KJV — "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments."
Implication
John 14:21 KJV — "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
2 Timothy 4:8 KJV — "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."
James 1:12 KJV — "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."
James 2:5 KJV — "Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?"
1 John 4:16 KJV — "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
Affirmation
John 21:15-17 KJV — "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep."
Testimonials
1 Thessalonians 1:3 KJV — "Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;"
1 John 4:17 KJV — "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."
1 John 4:19 KJV — "We love him, because he first loved us."
Love
Instruction
1 Timothy 4:12-15 KJV - "12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all."
Testimonials
Numbers 32:11-12 KJV — "11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD."
Deuteronomy 1:36 KJV — "Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD."
Joshua 14:8 KJV — "Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God."
Joshua 14:9 KJV — "And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God."
Joshua 14:14 KJV — "Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel."
Wholly
Meditate (Meditation)
Instruction
Joshua 1:8 KJV — "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."
1 Timothy 4:12-15 KJV - "12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all."
Affirmation
Psalm 19:14 KJV — "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.'
Psalm 49:3 KJV — "My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.'
Psalm 77:12 KJV — "I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings."
Wisdom
Psalm 1:2 KJV — "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."
Testimonials
Psalm 119:23 KJV — "Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes."
Psalm 119:97 KJV — 'MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day."
Psalm 119:99 KJV — "I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.'
Psalm 119:148 KJV — "Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word."