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Topical Order Biblical order
SALVATION
Universal justification
Rom 5:18 - free gift came upon all men
1Co 15:22 - in Christ shall all be made alive
1Ti 4:10 - the Savior of all men
Tit 2:11 - grace...hath appeared unto all men

Original sin
Psa 51:5 - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me
Isa 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean thing
Luk 1:35 - that holy thing which shall be born of thee

Perfection
1Jo 1:8 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves
1Jo 1:10 - If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar
1Jo 3:6 - abideth in him sinneth not...sinneth hath not seen him
1Jo 3:9 - born of God doth not commit sin...and he cannot sin
Gen 6:9 - a just man and perfect in his generations who later got drunk

Works
Joh 6:29 - This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent
Gal 2:16 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law
Eph 2:9 - Not of works, lest any man should boast
2Ti 1:9 - not according to our works

LAW
Law done away with
Luk 16:16 - The law and the prophets were until John
Joh 1:17 - For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ
Rom 3:21 - now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested
Rom 5:13 - but sin is not imputed when there is no law
Rom 6:14 - not under law but under grace
Rom 7:4 - ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ
Rom 7:6 - But now we are delivered from the law...not in the oldness of the letter
Rom 7:25 - the mind...serve the law of God...flesh the law of sin
Rom 10:4 - Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
2Co 3:7.8 - ministration of death...in stones, was glorious...ministration of the spirit
Gal 3:13 - redeemed from the curse of the law
Gal 2:19 - For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God
Gal 3:19 - serveth the law...added because of transgressions, till the seed
Gal 3:23 - But before faith came, we were kept under the law
Gal 3:24 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
Gal 3:25 - we are no longer under a schoolmaster
Gal 4:22-24 - two sons...bondmaid...freewoman...allegory...two covenants
Gal 5:14 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word...love thy neighbour as thyself
Eph 2:15 - abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
Col 2:14 - handwriting of ordinances...out of the way, nailing it to his cross
Heb 10:8 - neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law
Heb 10:9 - He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second

The 10 Commandments
Joh 13:34 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another
Joh 15:12 - This is my commandment, That ye love one another

Liberty
1Co 8:9 - lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock
Gal 5:13 - ye have been called unto liberty
Jam 2:12 - so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty

Sabbath - Done away with
Mar 2:27 - The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath
Rom 14:5 - One man esteemeth one day...another esteemeth every day alike
Gal 4:9,10 - the weak and beggarly elements...desire again to be in bondage?
Col 2:16 -
Heb 4:8 - if Jesus had given them rest...would he not...have spoken of another day

Sabbath - First day texts
Mat 28:1 - as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary
Mar 16:2 - the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre
Mar 16:9 - Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week
Joh 20:1 - The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early
Joh 20:19 - being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut
1Co 16:2 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store
Rev 1:10 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day

DEATH
Death > State of Dead - Spirits
Gen 35:18 - as her soul was in departing
1Sa 28:11-19 - What form is he of?...And Saul perceived that it was Samuel
1Ki 17:21 - he stretched himself upon the child...let this child's soul come into him
1Ki 17:22 - and the soul of the child came into him again
Job 34:14 - if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath
Job 34:15 - All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust
Ecc 12:7 - and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it
Act 12:15 - ...Then said they, It is his angel
2Co 5:6-8 - rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord
2Co 12:2 - (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body
1Pe 3:19 - he went and preached unto the spirits in prison
Phi 1:23 -
Heb 12:22-24 - innumerable company of angels...to the spirits of just men made perfect
Rev 6:9-11 - under the altar the souls...they cried...avenge our blood...white robes

State of Dead - Location of the Dead
Job 14:22 - flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn
Luk 9:60 - Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead
Luk 23:43 - Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise
Phi 1:23 - having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better
1Pe 4:6 - the gospel preached also to them that are dead

Hell - Unquenchable Fire
Isa 66:24 - look upon the carcases...worm shall not die...fire be quenched
Mat 3:12 - but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire
Mar 9:43 - two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched
Mar 9:44 - Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched
Luk 3:17 - but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable

Hell - Torment
Mat 25:46 - go away into everlasting punishment...righteous into life eternal
Luk 16:19-31 - And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments
Luk 16:24 - and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame
Rev 14:10-11 - tormented...holy angels...smoke...ascendeth...for ever
Rev 20:10 - and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever

Hell - Eternal Fire
Mat 18:8 - rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire
Mat 18:9 - rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire
Mat 25:41,46 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire
Rev 14:10 - smoke ascends forever
Rev 19:3 - And her smoke rose up for ever and ever

Hell - Word Study
Psa 16:10 - For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell
Mat 10:28 - fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
Luk 12:5 - Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell
Rev 20:14 - And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire

Hell - Purgatory
1Co 5:5 - deliver...unto Satan...destruction of the flesh...spirit may be saved
2Pe 1:9 - hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins

Hell - Other
2Pe 2:4 - angels...cast them down to hell...into chains of darkness
Rev 19:20 - These both were cast alive into a lake of fire

PROPHECY
The Secret Rapture
Luk 17:34 - two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left
Mat 24:40 - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
2Pe 3:10 - the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night

CHRISTIAN LIVING

DENOMINATIONS
Godhead - Divinity of Christ
Joh 5:18 - Jews sought...to kill him...God was his Father...equal with God
Joh 7:39 - spake he of the Spirit...the Holy Ghost was not yet given
Rev 3:14 - the beginning of the creation of God

Calvinism - Predestination
Rom 8:29 - he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
Rom 8:30 - Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called
Rom 9:22 - the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction
2Ti 1:9 - Who hath saved us, and called us...before the world began
Hab 1:12 - thou hast ordained them for judgment
Eph 1:4 - he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world
Eph 1:5 - Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children
Eph 2:10 - his workmanship...unto good works...God hath before ordained
2Th 2:13 - from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
1Pe 1:2 - Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father
1Pe 1:20 - Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world

Calvinism - God does evil
Gen 6:7 - I will destroy man whom I have created
Gen 7:23 - And every living substance was destroyed
Gen 19:24 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone
Gen 38:10 - the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also
Exo 4:21 - but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go
Exo 7:3 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart
Num 15:32,35 - man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day...put to death
Jos 10:11 - the LORD cast down great stones from heaven
2Sa 6:7 - And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him
Job 2:10 - shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
Mal 4:6 - lest I come and smite the earth with a curse
Act 5:5, 10 - Ananias...fell down, and gave up the ghost
Act 12:23 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him...eaten of worms
Rom 1:18 - the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
2Th 1:8 - In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God
Rev 14:10 - wrath of God...without mixture...cup of his indignation...tormented
Rev 20:9 - fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them

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