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James 2:18 ESV / 47 helpful votes

 

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Ephesians 5:15-20 ESV / 45 helpful votes

 

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, ...

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

 

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 41 helpful votes

 

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Colossians 4:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

 

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.

Psalm 100:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes

 

Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Isaiah 33:15-16 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes

 

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

James 2:26 ESV / 22 helpful votes

 

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Acts 4:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

 

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Matthew 3:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

 

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 11:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Romans 14:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.

2 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 14:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Romans 7:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 26:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

Jeremiah 8:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Proverbs 31:6-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Proverbs 1:24-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. ...

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ...

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Philippians 4:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.

1 Corinthians 16:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.

1 Corinthians 7:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

Romans 8:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Luke 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.

Luke 19:12-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ ...

Luke 12:47 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

Zechariah 11:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

Ezekiel 3:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

1 Kings 19:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” ...

Revelation 3:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

2 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

2 Corinthians 2:1-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. ...

1 Corinthians 16:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.