And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word;That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church:
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
2 Pet 2:13;Jude 1:12;1 Cor. 15:46&49;Luke 3:18;1 Pet. 2:24
Naturally and Spiritually, the Lord loves us, His Body. He will cleanse us with his word to present us to himself a glorious church, not having spots, wrinkles nor blemishes nor anything that is unclean. Thank you Lord for placing me in your body as it pleases you...Amen.
