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The Virtuous Woman
 
Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 153 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...
Proverbs 3:15 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...
Ruth 3:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.
1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
Proverbs 8:11 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
Philippians 2:2-4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...
Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.
Proverbs 31:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
Proverbs 7:1-8:36 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...
Genesis 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Proverbs 20:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Psalm 128:1-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! ...
Psalm 127:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Leviticus 19:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 31:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.
Exodus 18:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...
Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Job 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

A Wife
 
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...
Matthew 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 4 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 5:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Mark 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
Exodus 21:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Genesis 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 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.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 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 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 2 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.
Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 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. ...
Mark 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Matthew 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew 19:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”
Matthew 5:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
Zechariah 14:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. ...
Zechariah 11:17 ESV / 2 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 48:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naphtali, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Manasseh, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion. ...
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Proverbs 31:6-7 ESV / 2 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 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...
Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 2 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! ...
1 Chronicles 17:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.” And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in. For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling. ...
1 Kings 19:1-21 ESV / 2 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.” ...
Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
Genesis 29:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)
Genesis 29:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)
Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 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. ...
Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

God's Enemies
 
Romans 5:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Proverbs 24:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Exodus 23:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Psalm 138:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...
Romans 12:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Deuteronomy 20:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Leviticus 26:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
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,
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Luke 6:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalm 35:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Of David. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!” Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away! ...
Colossians 1:21-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Romans 11:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.
Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Acts 7:60 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Luke 6:27-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...
Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
Psalm 109:2-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Job 31:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
James 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
John 16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 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 19:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”
Luke 10:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Psalm 143:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Psalm 68:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!
Psalm 23:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Deuteronomy 30:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...
Numbers 10:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.”
Genesis 22:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
1 Thessalonians 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
Romans 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Romans 13:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Romans 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Romans 6:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
John 13:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 3:16 ESV / 4 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.
Psalm 71:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together
Psalm 57:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
Psalm 40:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me! Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
Psalm 37:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Exodus 23:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
Revelation 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...
Romans 8:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 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.
John 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Matthew 24:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...
Matthew 5:43-45 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 139:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
2 Samuel 6:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim. And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart, with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark. And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the Lord, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. ...
Joshua 6:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
Revelation 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
3 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Discipline
 
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 1,552 helpful votes
 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 811 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 627 helpful votes
 
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 545 helpful votes
 
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 447 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. ...
Revelation 3:19 ESV / 424 helpful votes
 
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 395 helpful votes
 
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 354 helpful votes
 
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 334 helpful votes
 
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 319 helpful votes
 
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Titus 1:8 ESV / 312 helpful votes
 
But hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 309 helpful votes
 
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 306 helpful votes
 
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 301 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 262 helpful votes
 
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 251 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 223 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...
Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 206 helpful votes
 
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 204 helpful votes
 
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 182 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 181 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 179 helpful votes
 
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Job 5:17 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;
Deuteronomy 8:5-6 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 132 helpful votes
 
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 128 helpful votes
 
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 128 helpful votes
 
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 126 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Psalm 94:12-14 ESV / 118 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
Romans 7:14-20 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...
Ephesians 6:1-9 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...
Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 101 helpful votes
 
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 100 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 100 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Titus 2:15 ESV / 89 helpful votes
 
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 89 helpful votes
 
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
Titus 3:10 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
James 5:19-20 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
Romans 16:17-18 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Judges 21:5-12 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.” And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day. What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?” And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly. For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. ...
Joshua 7:10-26 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.” In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the Lord takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households. And the household that the Lord takes shall come near man by man. ...
Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Philippians 4:9-13 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. 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. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
2 Timothy 2:3-5 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
1 Timothy 1:20 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1 Corinthians 11:32 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Proverbs 12:15-16 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
John 20:19-23 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Proverbs 13:1-25 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...
Psalm 146:7 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
Revelation 5:5-7 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.
Isaiah 42:6-7 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 38:17 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Job 37:23 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
2 Samuel 19:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
Proverbs 18:1-24 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice. ...
Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...
1 Kings 8:1-66 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. And they brought up the ark of the Lord, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. ...
Genesis 25:18-33 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen. These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. ...
Romans 12:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Mark 13:1-37 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. ...
Revelation 2:1-3:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...
Titus 2:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
John 15:1-27 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...
Micah 7:1-20 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires. The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net. Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand. Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms; ...
Jeremiah 13:15-15:19 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness. But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock has been taken captive. Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.” The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile. ...
Isaiah 66:9-13 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?” says the Lord; “shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?” says your God. “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.” For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 50:5-51:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up. ...
Isaiah 48:10-22 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last. My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together. “Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans. ...
Proverbs 26:1-27:27 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. ...
Proverbs 20:20-23:35 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end. Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you. Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good. A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way? ...
Proverbs 19:15-20:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger. Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die. Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed. Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death. A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again. ...
Proverbs 16:10-17:21 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment. A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work. It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness. Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right. A king's wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it. ...
Proverbs 15:1-33 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. ...
Psalm 50:1-51:19 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ...
Ezra 9:1-15 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.” As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled. Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice. And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God, ...
Deuteronomy 8:1-9:29 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. ...
Deuteronomy 3:1-4:49 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
“Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left. And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. ...
Numbers 20:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
Joshua 18:1-20:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them. There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned. So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me. They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north. ...
Deuteronomy 19:1-21:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
“When the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the Lord your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them. “This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past— as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live, ...

The Lord Jehovah
 
Isaiah 26:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Psalm 83:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
Exodus 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.
Revelation 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 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,
Judges 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
Exodus 17:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner,
Genesis 22:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

The Lamb Of God
 
John 1:29 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
Exodus 12:1-51 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, ...
1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Acts 8:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.
1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Isaiah 45:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Revelation 13:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Isaiah 53:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
Genesis 22:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” ...
Revelation 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 13:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...
Revelation 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
Revelation 5:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Acts 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
Revelation 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
Revelation 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Revelation 5:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” ...
Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...
Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 3:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Acts 8:26-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” ...
Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 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.”
John 8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]
John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.
John 1:32-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”
John 1:29-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 26:26-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”
Matthew 5:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Matthew 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
1 Samuel 1:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.
Deuteronomy 24:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Exodus 12:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Genesis 22:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here am I, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.

Calm The Storm
 
Luke 8:22-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out, and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
Mark 4:35-41 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. ...
Matthew 8:23-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”
Mark 5:1-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...
Mark 4:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mark 4:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
Mark 4:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”
Matthew 8:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.
Luke 12:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! ...
Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...
Luke 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.
Luke 8:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
Mark 6:45-53 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them, but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out, ...
Mark 6:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. ...
Mark 5:35-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” ...
Mark 5:21-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, ...
Mark 4:37-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Mark 1:40-45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” ...
Matthew 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ...
Matthew 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Jonah 1:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. ...
Psalm 107:23-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters; they saw the deeds of the Lord, his wondrous works in the deep. For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea. They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight; they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end. ...
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Exodus 14:21-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” ...
Genesis 1:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

The Son
 
John 1:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Luke 1:35 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Revelation 1:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 35 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.”
1 John 5:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 31 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.
Hebrews 1:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Acts 10:42 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 10:38 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
John 17:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
John 14:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
John 14:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 8:58 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
Luke 3:38 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Mark 13:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Psalm 2:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.
Jeremiah 31:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Exodus 4:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,
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 Peter 3:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
James 2:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Colossians 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Philippians 2:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Romans 9:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 5:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 2:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
John 20:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 17:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
John 11:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
John 10:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
John 10:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I and the Father are one.”
John 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
John 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 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.
John 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Mark 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Matthew 28:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Matthew 14:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
Matthew 8:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Matthew 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Matthew 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Matthew 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Daniel 7:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Revelation 22:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 20:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Revelation 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
Revelation 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Revelation 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Revelation 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
1 John 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
2 Peter 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
1 Peter 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Hebrews 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Hebrews 2:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.” Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Hebrews 1:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
Hebrews 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”
Hebrews 1:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Titus 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

United With Christ
 
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 16:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
1 John 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
Romans 6:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Titus 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Colossians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Colossians 1:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
Romans 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:1-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 3:10-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” ...
Romans 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 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.
John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
John 14:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Psalm 90:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 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.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1 Peter 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
1 Peter 1:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Hebrews 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 7:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Titus 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Colossians 2:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Philippians 2:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, ...
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 2 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. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
Ephesians 2:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Ephesians 1:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Ephesians 1:3-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, ...
Galatians 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Galatians 3:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Galatians 1:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
1 Corinthians 15:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1 Corinthians 15:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...
1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
1 Corinthians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 8:31-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Romans 8:28-9:24 ESV / 2 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. 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. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? ...
Romans 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 8:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 6:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:11-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ...
Romans 6:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
Romans 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Romans 6:1-8:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Romans 4:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Romans 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one understands; no one seeks for God.
Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 1:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Romans 1:21-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Romans 1:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Loyalty
 
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 897 helpful votes
 
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 877 helpful votes
 
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 607 helpful votes
 
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 512 helpful votes
 
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Romans 13:1 ESV / 496 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
John 15:13 ESV / 491 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 490 helpful votes
 
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
John 3:16 ESV / 482 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.
Matthew 26:35 ESV / 447 helpful votes
 
Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.
Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 433 helpful votes
 
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 428 helpful votes
 
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 428 helpful votes
 
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
Matthew 26:33 ESV / 386 helpful votes
 
Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 373 helpful votes
 
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 364 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
1 Samuel 24:6-10 ESV / 350 helpful votes
 
He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed.” So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way. Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage. And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’? Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.’
Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 345 helpful votes
 
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 325 helpful votes
 
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
Psalm 78:8 ESV / 325 helpful votes
 
And that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 315 helpful votes
 
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 313 helpful votes
 
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 299 helpful votes
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
1 Samuel 26:6-16 ESV / 298 helpful votes
 
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. Then said Abishai to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.” But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?” And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. ...
Ruth 1:16 ESV / 293 helpful votes
 
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
2 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 292 helpful votes
 
If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 291 helpful votes
 
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 20:28 ESV / 290 helpful votes
 
Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.
John 16:13 ESV / 286 helpful votes
 
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Proverbs 24:21 ESV / 285 helpful votes
 
My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 282 helpful votes
 
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
John 14:15 ESV / 277 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 275 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Ecclesiastes 8:2 ESV / 275 helpful votes
 
I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.
Ezra 6:10 ESV / 275 helpful votes
 
That they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 273 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Proverbs 17:11 ESV / 260 helpful votes
 
An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 256 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Philippians 4:3 ESV / 252 helpful votes
 
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.
Ezra 7:26 ESV / 252 helpful votes
 
Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
1 John 3:24 ESV / 251 helpful votes
 
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 251 helpful votes
 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 250 helpful votes
 
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
2 Samuel 15:21 ESV / 232 helpful votes
 
But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 227 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
John 14:6 ESV / 227 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 8:12 ESV / 223 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
2 Samuel 16:17 ESV / 211 helpful votes
 
And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
Hosea 6:4 ESV / 208 helpful votes
 
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
1 Chronicles 12:33 ESV / 208 helpful votes
 
Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.
Matthew 26:33-35 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.
2 Peter 2:10 ESV / 199 helpful votes
 
And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Luke 14:26-27 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Esther 2:21-23 ESV / 194 helpful votes
 
In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
Luke 14:33 ESV / 193 helpful votes
 
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
1 Chronicles 12:38 ESV / 193 helpful votes
 
All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.
Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Joshua 1:16-18 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses! Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 183 helpful votes
 
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
2 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 183 helpful votes
 
And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.
Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 180 helpful votes
 
What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.
2 Samuel 15:30 ESV / 178 helpful votes
 
But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.
Revelation 2:10 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
2 Samuel 18:3 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”
Job 34:18 ESV / 172 helpful votes
 
Who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’
Romans 12:2 ESV / 171 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Revelation 2:2 ESV / 170 helpful votes
 
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 167 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” ...
2 Samuel 21:17 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”
Ezra 10:8 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
And that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 160 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 155 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
2 Kings 11:4-12 ESV / 152 helpful votes
 
But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son. And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king's house (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace. And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the Lord on behalf of the king, shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.” ...
Amos 2:4 ESV / 150 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 147 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,
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
2 Samuel 19:6 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 142 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 142 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Hosea 6:6 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
John 15:12-15 ESV / 134 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 129 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 129 helpful votes
 
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Romans 5:8 ESV / 128 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Proverbs 25:19 ESV / 128 helpful votes
 
Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
2 Samuel 3:37 ESV / 128 helpful votes
 
So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.
Obadiah 1:12 ESV / 127 helpful votes
 
But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.
2 Samuel 18:12 ESV / 127 helpful votes
 
But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’
Numbers 31:41 ESV / 127 helpful votes
 
And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the Lord, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Numbers 27:20 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.
2 Samuel 1:14 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”
Job 23:2 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
“Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 119 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.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
John 15:12 ESV / 116 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 10:10 ESV / 116 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
James 1:8 ESV / 111 helpful votes
 
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 110 helpful votes
 
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Ezekiel 36:1-38 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around, therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. ...
Exodus 22:28 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.