{"id":4214,"date":"2021-08-17T23:52:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/wp-hb\/?page_id=4214"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:43:55","slug":"how-do-i-practice-godliness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/wp-hb\/?page_id=4214","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Practice Godliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c12\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"c11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/heavens-beauty.info\/images\/believe_pic.gif\" alt=\"To be as much like God as possible, to seek to build our character traits as much like the character of God-this is godliness.\" width=\"315\" height=\"209\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(23, 23, 23, 0.808) 1.4px 1.4px 0px; color: #bf7645;\"><b><span class=\"c11\">&#8220;How Do I Practice Godliness&#8221;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(23, 23, 23, 0.808) 1.4px 1.4px 0px; color: #bf7645;\"><strong><span class=\"c9\" style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Knowing God leads to godliness wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">To be as much like God as possible, to seek to build our character traits as much like the character of God-this is godliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">But godliness is more than being like God. It is practicing a closer walk with God. As goodness is more than the absence of badness, so godliness is more than the absence of worldliness, materialism, hedonism, and other <b>\u201cisms.\u201d<\/b> Godliness is the practice of the presence of God in all we are and all we do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c14\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; text-shadow: rgba(23, 23, 23, 0.808) 1.4px 1.4px 0px; color: #bf7645;\"><strong><span class=\"c11\" style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">HOW DO I PRACTICE GODLINESS?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1 Timothy 6:3<\/b> . . . These are the sound, wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are the foundation for a godly life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>2 Peter 1:5-9<\/b> . . . Knowing God . . . leads to godliness. When we build on the foundation of God\u2019s Word and yield our ways to God\u2019s ways, we allow God to produce in us his good fruits of godliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>ROMANS 1:18<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;.For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>ROMANS 11:26<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1 TIMOTHY 2:2<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all <b>GODLINESS<\/b> and honesty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1 TIMOTHY 2:10<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;..But (which becometh women professing <b>GODLINESS<\/b>) with good works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1 TIMOTHY 3:16<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;..And without controversy great is the mystery of <b>GODLINESS<\/b>: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1TIMOTHY\u00a0 4:7<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;.But refuse profane and old wives&#8217; fables, and exercise thyself rather unto <b>GODLINESS<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1TIMOTHY\u00a0 4:8<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;For bodily exercise profiteth little: but <b>GODLINESS<\/b> is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1TIMOTHY\u00a0 6:3<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to <b>GODLINESS<\/b>;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1TIMOTHY\u00a0 6:5<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is <b>GODLINESS<\/b>: from such withdraw thyself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1TIMOTHY<\/b> \u00a0<b>6:6<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;But <b>GODLINESS<\/b> with contentment is great gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>1TIMOTHY<\/b> \u00a0<b>6:11<\/b>&#8230;.But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, <b>GODLINESS<\/b>, faith, love, patience, meekness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>2 TIMOTHY\u00a0 2:16<\/b>&#8230;..But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>2 TIMOTHY\u00a0 3:5<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;Having a form of <b>GODLINESS<\/b>, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>TITUS 1:1<\/b>&#8230;&#8230;Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God&#8217;s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after <b>GODLINESS<\/b>;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><b>TITUS 2:12<\/b>&#8230;..Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c13\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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Knowing God leads to godliness wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ To be as much like God as possible, to seek to build our character traits as much like the character of God-this is godliness. 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