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What does the Bible say about giving testimony?

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The Bible calls believers to give faithful testimony to Jesus Christ, openly confessing what God has done and trusting that the Holy Spirit makes their witness effective. Jesus told the delivered man to declare the Lord's mercy in Mark 5:19, and Psalm 107:1-2 summons the redeemed to say so. Our testimony rests not on personal strength but on God's truth: the Spirit testifies that Jesus is the Son of God and that eternal life is found in him, as 1 John 5:5-11 teaches. Christ's disciples bear witness because they have been with him, while the Spirit also bears witness (John 15:26-27). Even amid opposition, believers overcome through Christ's blood, faithful confession, and persevering faith (Revelation 12:11; Philippians 1:27-30).

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  • Mark 5:19

    He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

  • Revelation 12:11

    They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.

  • 1 John 5:10

    He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

  • John 8:14

    Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

  • Psalms 107:1-2

    [1] Give thanks to Yahweh, For he is good, For his loving kindness endures forever. [2] Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

  • Philippians 1:27-30

    [27] Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Gospel; [28] and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God. [29] Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf, [30] having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • John 15:27

    You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  • 1 John 5:5-8

    [5] Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? [6] This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. [7] For there are three who testify: [8] the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

  • 1 John 5:11

    The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

  • John 15:26

    "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

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