1. READ: 1 PETER 1:13-16
a. What kind of children should we be?
b. What should we be in all we do?
c. Why should we be holy?
Answer:
NOTE: The word "holy" here means "separated from evil and devoted to good". God demands that His children be separated from the world and devoted to Him, being holy in our actions, just as He is holy. Thus, God's children become "saints," or "the sanctified ones," or "holy ones."
2. READ: 1 PETER 2:1-5 AND 1 PETER 2:11-12
a. What must we rid ourselves of?
b. What kind of lives should we live?
3. READ: 1 JOHN 1:5-7
a. What is not in God at all?
b. What should we always "walk" in?
4. READ: ROMANS 13:13-14
a. How should we behave?
b. What should we do rather than sinning?
c. What should we not even think about?
5. READ: JAMES 1:19-21
a. What should we do about moral filth and evil?
b. What kind of life does God desire for us?
c. What can God's Word do?
6. READ: 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-18 AND 2 CORINTHIANS 7:1
a. What things should God's people not be connected with?
b. What must we purify ourselves from?
c. What will such purification "perfect" in us?
d. Why should we pursue holiness?
7. READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15-20
a. What are our bodies members of?
b. What are our bodies temples of?
c. To whom do our bodies belong?
d. What must we do with our bodies?
8. READ: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-8
a. Whom should we live to please?
b. What will the Lord punish people for?
c. What did God call us to do?
9. READ: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:9-12
a. What does God teach us to do?
b. What should our ambition be?
10. READ: TITUS 2:11-14
a. What does God's grace teach us to say "No" to?
b. What kind of lives must we live?
11. READ: 1 JOHN 2:15-17
a. What should we NOT love?
b. What will the world and its desires do?
c. Who lives forever?
12. READ: EPHESIANS 4:17-24
a. Why are some people separated from the life of God?
b. What must we "put off"?
c. What must we "put on"?
13. READ: EPHESIANS 4:25-32
a. What must not come out of our mouths?
b. Whom should we not grieve?
c. What things must we "get rid of"?
14. READ: EPHESIANS 5:1-14
a. Whom must we imitate?
b. How must we imitate Him?
c. Who will NOT be in God's kingdom?
d. What should we "have nothing to do with"?
15. READ: EPHESIANS 5:15-20
a. What should we be very careful about?
b. What should we be filled with?
c. What should we always give thanks to God for?
16. READ: HEBREWS 12:14
a. What must we make every effort to be?
b. Why is holiness so important?
17. READ: HEBREWS 13:4-8
a. What should be honored by all?
b. What should we keep our lives free from?
c. Whose faith should we imitate?
18. READ: 1 JOHN 2:28-29 AND 1 JOHN 3:1-3
a. When Jesus comes, what may we be "before Him"?
b. Everyone who does what is right has been what?
c. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us?
d. What has not yet been made known?
e. What hope should we have?
f. Everyone who has this hope should do what?
19. READ: 1 JOHN 3:4-10
a. Why did Jesus appear?
b. What must we stop doing?
c. Who is of the devil?
d. What was the reason the Son of God appeared?
e. No one who is born of God will do what?
f. How do we know who the children of the devil are?
20. READ: 1 JOHN 5:18-21
a. The evil one cannot harm whom?
b. Who is under the control of the evil one?
c. Why has the Son of God given us understanding?
d. Where do we have eternal life?
