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Biblical Statements on:
Man, Potential to Become God
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Hebrews
12 = II Nephi 9:17-38 parallel (excerpt)
Numbers (in parenthesis) indicate specific correlating ideas.
Those in the left-hand column pertaining to Christ, who is set as the
exemplar. Those on the right pertaining to the righteous who
believe on Christ |
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Hebrews 12:2
(R.E. Jesus) |
II Nephi 9:18
(R.E. the saints) |
| Looking unto
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who (1) for the joy that was
set before him (2) endured the cross, (3) despising the shame, (4) and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. |
But, behold, the righteous, the saints of the
Holy One of Israel, they who have believed in the Holy One of Israel,
they who have (2) endured the crosses of the world, (3) and despised the
shame of it, (4) they shall inherit the kingdom of God, which was
prepared for them from the foundation of the world, (1) and their joy
shall be full forever. |
 From the Bible:
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Overcome, even as Christ overcame; become an heir as he is an heir
 | Revelation 3:21 "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit
with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with
my Father in his throne." |
| Revelation 21:7 "He that overcometh shall inherit all things." |
| Daniel 7:27 "And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the
saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and all dominions shall serve and obey him." |
| Matthew 24:47 (42-47) v45 "who then is faithful and wise..." v47
"Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all
his goods." |
| Luke 12:44 "of a truth, I say unto you, that he will make him
a ruler over all that he hath." |
| Luke 15:31 "And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me,
and all that I have is thine. " |
| Luke 22:29 "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my
Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my
kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. " |
| Galatians 4:7 "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and
if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as Christ is perfect.
| Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect. " |
| Deuteronomy 18:13 "Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God." |
| II Timothy 3:15-17 Scriptures given so that a man of God may be perfect. |
| I Peter 1:16 "Be ye holy, for I am holy." |
| Leviticus 19:2 "Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am
holy." |
| I Peter 2:21 "Christ ... [left] us an example, that ye should
follow his steps." |
| John 14:12 "He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also." |
| II Corinthians 3:18 "But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." |
| 1 John 3:1-3 "Now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him
purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
(Compare Moroni 7:48.) |
| John 3:15 & John 6:27 & Ephesians 4:30
 | John 3:15 "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have eternal life. " |
| John 6:27 (Christ sealed to eternal life) "Labour not for the
meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting
life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath
God the Father sealed." |
| Ephesians 4:30 "ye are sealed by the Holy Spirit
unto the day of redemption"
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That your joy might be full, even as he has a fullness of joy.
| John 15 Christ admonishes us to become like him. v10 As Christ keeps the
Father's commandments and abides in his love, we should keep Christ's
commandments and abide in his love. v11 "These things have I spoken
unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might
be full." |
| Ephesians 3:19 know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye
might be filled with all the fulness of God. |
| II Thessalonians 2:14 God "called you by our gospel, to the
obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
| Phillipians 2:5-11
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father. |
That ye may be one, even as I and the Father are one
| John 17:13,18-24
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they
might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into
the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on
me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent
me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be
one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that
the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast
loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where
I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou
lovedst me before the foundation of the world. |
As children of the God, receive correction that we might be holy as
he is holy
| Hebrews 12:5-11
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto
children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint
when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons;
for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons.
9 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?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but
he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto
them which are exercised thereby. |
| John 10:34 "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are
gods?" |
From the Book of Mormon:
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| III Nephi 12:48 "Therefore, I would that ye should be perfect even as
I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect." |
| III Nephi 12:48 "Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be?
Verily I say unto you, even as I am." |
| III Nephi 28:10 "And for this cause shall ye have a fulness of joy;
and ye shall sit down in the kingdom of my Father; yea, your joy shall be
full, even as the Father hath given me fulness of joy; and ye shall be even
as I am, and I am even as the Father; and the Father and I are one." |
From the Doctrine & Covenants:
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| D&C 93:19,20 "I give unto you
these sayings that you may understand and know how to worship, and know what
you worship, that you may come unto the Father in my name, and in due time
receive of his fulness. For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of
his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say
unto you, you shall receive grace for grace." |
Compiled
by Sterling D. Allan; Sapporo, Japan; 1983,1984
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