Conduct Pertaining to God (2 of 3)

Conduct Studies aim to increase the believer's understanding of holy etiquette and righteous acts in order that they may apply themself and conform to the image of God and God's kingdom. This list covers conduct pertaining to God.

Joy

Joy (Joyful/Joyfulness)

Instruction

Psalm 32:11 KJV - "Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart."

Psalm 66:1 KJV - "To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm. Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:"

Psalm 81:1 KJV - "To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob."

Psalm 98:4 KJV — "Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise."

Psalm 98:6 KJV — "With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King."

Psalm 100:1 KJV — "A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands."

Imploration

Psalm 95:1-2 KJV - "1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms."

Psalm 98:8 KJV — "Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together"

Psalm 132:9 KJV — "Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy."

Colossians 1:9-11 KJV - "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;"

Affirmation

Psalm 27:6 KJV - "And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD."

Psalm 63:5 KJV - "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:"

Habakkuk 3:18 KJV — "Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation."

1 Thessalonians 3:9 KJV — "For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;"

Testimonials

Psalm 42:4 KJV - "When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday."

Luke 24:52 KJV — "And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:"

Philippians 1:4 KJV — "Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,"

Keep

Imploration

Habakkuk 2:20 KJV — "But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him."

Lendeth

Widsom

Proverbs 19:17 KJV - "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again."

Implication

Proverbs 19:17 KJV - "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again."

Magnify

Imploration

Psalm 35:27 KJV — “Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.”

Psalm 40:16 KJV — “Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.”

Psalm 70:4 KJV — “Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.”

Affirmation

Psalm 69:30 KJV — “I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.”

Philippians 1:20 KJV — “According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.”

Coterie

Psalm 34:3 KJV — “O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.”

Testimonials

Luke 1:46 KJV — “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,”

Acts 10:46-47 KJV - "46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?"

Acts 19:17 KJV — “And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.”

Prophetic

Malachi 1:5 KJV — “And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.”

Making-Melody

Instruction

Ephesians 5:19 KJV - "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;"

Mind

Affirmation

Acts 20:19 KJV — “Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:”

Peacemakers

Imploration

Isaiah 27:5 KJV — "Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me."

Perfect

Instruction

Genesis 17:1 KJV - "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."

Deuteronomy 18:13 KJV - "Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God."

1 Kings 8:61 KJV - "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."

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

Job 8:20 KJV - "Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:"

Implication

2 Chronicles 16:9 KJV - "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars."

Testimonial

1 Kings 15:14, 17 KJV - "14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days. ... 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days."

1 Chronicles 29:9 KJV - "Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy."

Prepare

Prepare (Prepared/Prepareth)

Implication

1 Samuel 7:3 KJV — "And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

Job 11:13-15 KJV - "13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:"

Testimonials

2 Chronicles 19:3 KJV — "Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."

2 Chronicles 30:18-20 KJV - "18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one 19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. 20 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people."

Purpose

Exhortation

Acts 11:23 KJV - "Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord."

Affirmation

1 Kings 5:5 KJV - "And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name."

Repent

Repent (Repentance)

Instruction

Acts 20:21 KJV — "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."

Acts 26:20 KJV — "But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance."