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Definition:
1] Uniformity of procedures or behavior and deportment.
2] Steadfast adherence to the same principles, course, form
as in, "there is consistency in his pattern of behavior."
3] The condition of holding together and retaining form...a
holding together in firmness all the elements of the
Salvation Process and/or Godly principles.
4] Thesaurus: coherence, congruity, consistence.
Quotes:
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor
virtue in the world.
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but, unguided by knowledge
or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
Look to make your course regular, that men may know
beforehand what they may expect.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in
individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Consistency is the first of Christian duties.
General Scriptures:
Matthew 6:24 No man can
serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love
the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Romans 14:22 Hast thou
faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that
condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
1 Corinthians 10:21 Ye
cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye
cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of
devils.
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah
came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between
two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal,
then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Matthew 4:10 Then saith
Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
Joshua 24:15 And if it
seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day
whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers
served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods
of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and
my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua 24:19-20 And
Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for
he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive
your transgressions nor your sins. If ye forsake the LORD,
and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt,
and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
1 Samuel 7:3 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.
Romans 6:16-22
16 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?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but
ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which
was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness.
19 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.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now
ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to
God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.
Galatians 1:10 For do I
now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if
I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
James 4:4 Ye adulterers
and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15-16 Love not
the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
Father, but is of the world.
James 1:27 Pure religion
and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.
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