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Generosity
 
Acts 20:35 ESV / 638 helpful votes
 
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Luke 6:38 ESV / 511 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Proverbs 11:24-25 ESV / 412 helpful votes
 
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 276 helpful votes
 
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Luke 21:1-4 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
Matthew 6:21 ESV / 239 helpful votes
 
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 216 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 190 helpful votes
 
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 182 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Matthew 10:42 ESV / 182 helpful votes
 
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
1 John 3:17 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 153 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 134 helpful votes
 
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Psalm 112:5 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 103 helpful votes
 
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 96 helpful votes
 
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
2 Corinthians 9:5-7 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction. The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 93 helpful votes
 
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Luke 12:33 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
1 Timothy 6:18-19 ESV / 89 helpful votes
 
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
John 3:16 ESV / 76 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.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Acts 2:45 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Matthew 25:34-40 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? ...
Psalm 41:1-3 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him; the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies. The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
Proverbs 11:24 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
Isaiah 32:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.
Luke 6:37-38 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
2 Corinthians 9:13 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,
2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 8:1-5 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.
Luke 6:30 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
Psalm 37:26 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
Psalm 119:36 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!
1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
2 Corinthians 9:6-8 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
1 Chronicles 29:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
2 Corinthians 8:12-15 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 112:9 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.
Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
James 1:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 31 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.
Luke 3:10-11 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 30 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.
Mark 12:41 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.
Matthew 25:21 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Acts 20:33-35 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Matthew 25:40 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Matthew 5:42 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
James 2:15-16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
James 1:27 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Acts 4:34-37 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.
2 Corinthians 9:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.
2 Corinthians 9:1-15 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints, for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be. Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident. So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction. ...
Matthew 19:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Exodus 35:22 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord.
Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
2 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
For in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Psalm 50:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 22 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,
Romans 12:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Galatians 6:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.
2 Corinthians 8:1-24 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. ...
Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Isaiah 58:6-7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Deuteronomy 16:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
2 Corinthians 8:2-3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
For in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,
Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 20 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.
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Luke 11:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 10:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
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.”
Leviticus 27:30 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord.
Genesis 33:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he urged him, and he took it.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Psalm 24:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
Acts 3:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”
Acts 2:44-45 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.

Listening And Doing
 
James 1:1-27 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
James 1:19-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ...
James 1:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
James 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
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,
Romans 8:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
James 2:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
James 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
James 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
James 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Hebrews 13:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” ...
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 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 12:2 ESV / 3 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.
John 16:33 ESV / 3 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 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.
Jeremiah 31:33-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
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.
Proverbs 15:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 10:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 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. ...
Revelation 14:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,
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 1:5 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 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.”
1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...
James 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
James 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
James 3:3-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, ...
James 3:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
James 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
James 2:14-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...
James 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
James 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
James 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
James 1:22-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. ...
James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
James 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
James 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
James 1:1-5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
James 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Hebrews 8:8-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
Titus 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 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.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
Ephesians 4:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
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,
Ephesians 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Romans 8:28 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.
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.
Acts 26:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Acts 16:25-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened. When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. ...
Acts 16:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
Acts 9:26-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him. And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. ...
Acts 8:26-40 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 2:38 ESV / 2 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 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 3:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
John 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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 6:46-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
Matthew 21:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Daniel 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
Jeremiah 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 59:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Isaiah 55:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 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 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.
Proverbs 19:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.
Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
Psalm 146:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Psalm 141:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
Psalm 136:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Psalm 102:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you are the same, and your years have no end.
Psalm 85:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
Psalm 37:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
Psalm 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Perfect Peace
 
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
John 14:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Romans 8:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 9 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.
Psalm 119:165 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
John 16:33 ESV / 7 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.”
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 7 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 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 5:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 12:27-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Isaiah 26:2-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Psalm 125:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore. For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong.
Psalm 119:73-80 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word. I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. ...
Psalm 119:1-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...
Psalm 91:9-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge— no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
Psalm 78:5-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
Psalm 73:23-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 57:1-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness! My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! ...
Psalm 56:10-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you. For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Psalm 56:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 46:1-3 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. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
Psalm 46:1-11 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. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...
Psalm 37:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
Psalm 34:18-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Psalm 34:14-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalm 34:5-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Psalm 34:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalm 27:2-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 24:1-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ...
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 6 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. ...
1 Samuel 2:8-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world. “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.”
Revelation 21:2-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 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. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
1 John 4:16-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 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 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Hebrews 4:9-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 3:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Hebrews 3:12-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? ...
Hebrews 3:7-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 5 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.
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 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. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 5 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. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 5 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.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 5 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 13:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 1:3-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Romans 15:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 15:13-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Romans 12:17-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 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 8:1-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 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. ...
Romans 5:1-2 ESV / 5 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.
Acts 14:21-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
John 14:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 6:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
Luke 10:19-20 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. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Luke 10:5-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.
Mark 4:37-41 ESV / 5 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?”
Matthew 28:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 16:18-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 14:28-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...
Matthew 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 29:11-13 ESV / 5 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. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Isaiah 54:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy; 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 49:13-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted. But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Isaiah 43:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
Proverbs 29:25-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that a man gets justice.
Proverbs 3:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
2 Chronicles 20:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.

Prayer
 
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 1,974 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.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 1,766 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
John 15:7 ESV / 1,529 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 1,301 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 1,284 helpful votes
 
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 1,259 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 1,119 helpful votes
 
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
James 5:16 ESV / 1,042 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.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 881 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Luke 11:9 ESV / 870 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 801 helpful votes
 
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 766 helpful votes
 
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
1 Timothy 2:1-4 ESV / 632 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 599 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 591 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:5-8 ESV / 559 helpful votes
 
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 532 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 526 helpful votes
 
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 516 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Luke 18:1 ESV / 511 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 487 helpful votes
 
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 462 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 441 helpful votes
 
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 414 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.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 390 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.
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 386 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 385 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 328 helpful votes
 
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 318 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.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 317 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
James 4:3 ESV / 311 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Mark 1:35 ESV / 283 helpful votes
 
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 281 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 280 helpful votes
 
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 277 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 271 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
James 5:13-18 ESV / 252 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 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. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ...
Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 247 helpful votes
 
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
John 14:13 ESV / 236 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Acts 1:14 ESV / 230 helpful votes
 
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 221 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 141:2 ESV / 211 helpful votes
 
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
1 John 5:15 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 198 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
James 4:2 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ...
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
James 1:6 ESV / 185 helpful votes
 
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Acts 2:42 ESV / 181 helpful votes
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
John 9:31 ESV / 181 helpful votes
 
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Luke 11:9-13 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 6:12 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 169 helpful votes
 
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Psalm 18:6 ESV / 169 helpful votes
 
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
John 16:23-24 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Psalm 5:3 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
John 14:13-14 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Matthew 9:35-38 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Psalm 66:17 ESV / 161 helpful votes
 
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 160 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Luke 11:1 ESV / 159 helpful votes
 
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
John 15:16 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Psalm 145:18-19 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
Matthew 6:9 ESV / 152 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 150 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
James 1:5 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Psalm 55:17 ESV / 141 helpful votes
 
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.
Luke 21:36 ESV / 135 helpful votes
 
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 133 helpful votes
 
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
James 1:6-7 ESV / 126 helpful votes
 
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 125 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.
James 5:13 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
James 5:14 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 115 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Colossians 1:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes
 
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 104 helpful votes
 
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
James 5:16-18 ESV / 95 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. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 5:14-15 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
John 14:14 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Psalm 122:6 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
1 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 90 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.
Acts 12:5 ESV / 90 helpful votes
 
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Psalm 4:1 ESV / 89 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Matthew 21:21-22 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Jude 1:20 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
James 5:13-14 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Acts 16:25 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
1 John 5:16 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
Luke 22:31-32 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 118:5 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Grow
 
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
Ephesians 2:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Hebrews 5:12-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Colossians 1:9-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
1 Corinthians 3:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Psalm 92:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
2 Peter 1:5-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
James 1:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Hebrews 6:1-2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 6 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.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 6 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.
Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 6 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 1:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 6 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 4:20-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
John 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
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.
Luke 2:52 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Isaiah 11:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Ephesians 4:13-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Ephesians 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 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 ...
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
2 Peter 3:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 4 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.
Hebrews 5:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
Hebrews 5:11-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
1 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Colossians 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 1:9-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Ephesians 4:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
1 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 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.
Acts 2:42-47 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, ...
John 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Malachi 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
Zechariah 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
Daniel 6:1-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss. Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.” ...
Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
Jeremiah 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 4 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 5:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 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. ...
Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Samuel 2:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now the young man Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.
1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 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.
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
Judges 16:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
Genesis 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Revelation 22:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
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.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 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.
2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 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 / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
1 Timothy 4:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. ...
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 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.
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 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.

7 Women For 1 Man
 
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 4 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, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 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.
Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 4 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.
1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Matthew 19:8 ESV / 4 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.
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 4 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.”
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 3 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.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
1 Timothy 3:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
John 3:16 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.
Luke 8:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
Matthew 22:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’
Matthew 19:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
Isaiah 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
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 1:28 ESV / 3 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.”
Revelation 2:1-3:22 ESV / 2 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. ...
Revelation 1:1-20 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, 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 ...
1 Peter 3:1-5 ESV / 2 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, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Titus 2:3-8 ESV / 2 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. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, ...
Titus 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 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.
1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
1 Timothy 2:11-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. ...
Colossians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Colossians 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Ephesians 5:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...
Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:26-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.
1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:3-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. ...
1 Corinthians 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 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. ...
1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 5:1 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.
Romans 16:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
Romans 16:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
Romans 16:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia. ...
Romans 8:28 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.
Romans 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
Romans 7:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Romans 1:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Acts 21:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.
Acts 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 18:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Acts 16:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
Acts 9:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
John 3:16-17 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. 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.
Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:2-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” ...
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Matthew 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 2 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 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. ...
Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Psalm 23:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 Kings 22:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.

Gods Name In Vain
 
Exodus 20:7 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Leviticus 19:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
“‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Matthew 6:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
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,
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Psalm 8:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
Revelation 3:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
Psalm 139:20 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain!
Isaiah 48:1-2 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Matthew 5:33-37 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
Exodus 34:5-7 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Psalm 9:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 15:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Proverbs 30:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Exodus 3:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Malachi 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.
Ezekiel 39:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
Isaiah 43:6-7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Proverbs 30:7-9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Leviticus 18:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 19 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,
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 19 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.
Psalm 34:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!
Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Jeremiah 23:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Romans 2:17-24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? ...
Colossians 3:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
1 Corinthians 15:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
John 17:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
1 Samuel 25:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
Deuteronomy 6:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.
Genesis 27:36 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Psalm 34:1-3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!
Job 21:34 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
Job 11:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Job 9:29 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
1 Samuel 12:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
Judges 6:24 ESV / 15 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.
Deuteronomy 10:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
Leviticus 24:11-16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. ...
Exodus 33:19-20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”
Genesis 22:14 ESV / 15 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.”
James 5:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
Jeremiah 34:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
But then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.
Psalm 39:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
Job 27:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Exodus 17:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner,
Romans 2:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
2 Corinthians 1:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 12 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.”
Psalm 61:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.
1 John 3:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Hebrews 3:1-19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ...
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Romans 2:23-24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Acts 4:1-37 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, ...
John 3:16-17 ESV / 11 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 6:46 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Psalm 127:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
Psalm 111:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!
Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...
Job 16:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 15:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Leviticus 21:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 10 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.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 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 ...
James 2:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
James 1:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
1 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,
1 Thessalonians 2:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.
Philippians 2:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Philippians 2:10-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Galatians 3:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
John 17:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Isaiah 45:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,
Isaiah 42:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Judges 13:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”
Exodus 33:17-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”
Matthew 5:33-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
Psalm 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Exodus 20:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
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.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 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 7:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Jeremiah 8:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
Isaiah 49:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”
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Preach The Word
 
2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
Acts 8:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.
2 Timothy 4:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. ...
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 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.
Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
2 Timothy 3:16-4:4 ESV / 6 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. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ...
2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
Nehemiah 8:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 5 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.
2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Luke 24:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...
1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Acts 20:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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.
Mark 16:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 1:6 ESV / 3 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—
1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 3 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.
Acts 8:30-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
Luke 24:47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Luke 8:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”
Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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.
James 4:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 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.
2 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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.
2 Timothy 3:1-4:4 ESV / 2 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. ...
2 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
2 Timothy 1:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,
1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But test everything; hold fast what is good.
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 2 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, ...
1 Corinthians 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
1 Corinthians 4:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. ...
1 Corinthians 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...
Romans 2:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
Acts 20:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Acts 20:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears.
Acts 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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. ...
Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 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 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
Luke 7:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 19:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Matthew 7:16-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Matthew 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Jonah 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”
Jeremiah 23:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord.
Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 2 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 84:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. ...
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. ...

Wisdom
 
James 1:5 ESV / 2,617 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 3:17 ESV / 2,061 helpful votes
 
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Proverbs 3:13-18 ESV / 1,459 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ...
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 1,221 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 1,086 helpful votes
 
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 1,062 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 932 helpful votes
 
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 10:23 ESV / 834 helpful votes
 
Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 759 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 724 helpful votes
 
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 687 helpful votes
 
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Psalm 111:10 ESV / 645 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Proverbs 17:27-28 ESV / 605 helpful votes
 
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 584 helpful votes
 
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Luke 21:15 ESV / 570 helpful votes
 
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 560 helpful votes
 
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 491 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 487 helpful votes
 
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 475 helpful votes
 
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Psalm 90:12 ESV / 461 helpful votes
 
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 8:1 ESV / 453 helpful votes
 
Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Proverbs 4:6-7 ESV / 449 helpful votes
 
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
James 3:13 ESV / 418 helpful votes
 
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 403 helpful votes
 
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 401 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Job 12:12 ESV / 391 helpful votes
 
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Proverbs 14:8 ESV / 389 helpful votes
 
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
Colossians 2:8 ESV / 383 helpful votes
 
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.
Ephesians 1:16-19 ESV / 364 helpful votes
 
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Matthew 7:24 ESV / 358 helpful votes
 
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Job 12:12-13 ESV / 352 helpful votes
 
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Proverbs 24:3-7 ESV / 351 helpful votes
 
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory. Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 332 helpful votes
 
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 325 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Romans 11:33 ESV / 320 helpful votes
 
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 311 helpful votes
 
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 309 helpful votes
 
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 306 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 301 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 293 helpful votes
 
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.
Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 290 helpful votes
 
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 289 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Job 28:28 ESV / 287 helpful votes
 
And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 283 helpful votes
 
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Proverbs 14:33 ESV / 277 helpful votes
 
Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
John 8:32 ESV / 272 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 269 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Colossians 2:3 ESV / 257 helpful votes
 
In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Psalm 37:30 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
2 Chronicles 1:7-12 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.” And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place. O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?” God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king, ...
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 242 helpful votes
 
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 4:7 ESV / 241 helpful votes
 
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 237 helpful votes
 
That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 234 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.
Proverbs 11:30 ESV / 232 helpful votes
 
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 229 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Psalm 107:43 ESV / 227 helpful votes
 
Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 225 helpful votes
 
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Daniel 2:23 ESV / 221 helpful votes
 
To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”
2 Timothy 2:7 ESV / 216 helpful votes
 
Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 215 helpful votes
 
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 212 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Job 12:13 ESV / 210 helpful votes
 
“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 209 helpful votes
 
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Proverbs 17:10 ESV / 203 helpful votes
 
A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Jeremiah 9:24 ESV / 196 helpful votes
 
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
James 1:5-6 ESV / 190 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Colossians 1:9 ESV / 188 helpful votes
 
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Proverbs 4:5 ESV / 186 helpful votes
 
Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 23:12 ESV / 185 helpful votes
 
Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
Colossians 4:5-6 ESV / 184 helpful votes
 
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 180 helpful votes
 
The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 179 helpful votes
 
A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Psalm 51:6 ESV / 173 helpful votes
 
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Revelation 5:12 ESV / 172 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!”
Isaiah 28:29 ESV / 170 helpful votes
 
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Daniel 2:20 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
Philippians 1:9 ESV / 159 helpful votes
 
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
1 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 154 helpful votes
 
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Ecclesiastes 10:12 ESV / 151 helpful votes
 
The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.
Isaiah 5:21 ESV / 150 helpful votes
 
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Daniel 1:17 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...
John 8:12 ESV / 136 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.”
1 Corinthians 2:6-16 ESV / 135 helpful votes
 
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ...
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 128 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.
Proverbs 18:1 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Daniel 12:3 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Ephesians 3:14-19 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ...
Galatians 4:9 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Proverbs 29:3 ESV / 115 helpful votes
 
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Isaiah 29:14-16 ESV / 111 helpful votes
 
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.” Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?” You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
 

They Hated Jesus
 
John 15:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
1 John 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
John 7:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Matthew 24:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew 10:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Psalm 97:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
1 John 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
James 4:4 ESV / 4 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.
John 17:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John 15:23-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
John 14:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Luke 6:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
Revelation 2:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
1 John 4:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 3 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.
John 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 15:1-27 ESV / 3 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. ...
John 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
John 3:16 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.
John 1:14 ESV / 3 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.
Luke 14:26 ESV / 3 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.
Mark 13:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 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.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Isaiah 53:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 49:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Psalm 139:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
Psalm 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Leviticus 19:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
1 John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:1 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.
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.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Titus 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
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 3:1-5 ESV / 2 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.
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 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.
Galatians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
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 4:4 ESV / 2 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.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 2 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.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Acts 20:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Acts 16:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
Acts 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
Acts 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,
John 16:33 ESV / 2 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 15:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
John 15:18-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ...
John 15:18-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
John 15:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 14:26 ESV / 2 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 8:12 ESV / 2 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 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 3:16-17 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. 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 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 22:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Matthew 26:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Matthew 24:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 5:43-45 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...
Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Amos 2:4 ESV / 2 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.
Isaiah 66:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations; I also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight.” Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame. ...
Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Isaiah 28:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
Isaiah 8:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Psalm 139:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
Psalm 119:163 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.
Psalm 119:128 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
Psalm 101:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Psalm 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Psalm 26:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
2 Chronicles 19:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.
1 Kings 22:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.