Be Holy Podcast

God Is Angry With Sin
 
Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Psalm 7:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
James 1:19-20 ESV / 8 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.
Colossians 3:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
James 1:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Mark 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
2 Kings 17:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.
Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Romans 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Matthew 5:22 ESV / 5 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.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Psalm 37:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
Exodus 34:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
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,
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 4 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 / 4 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.
Galatians 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 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 12:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Nahum 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.
Proverbs 14:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless. A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
Psalm 145:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 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 1:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 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.
James 4:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 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.
James 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
James 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 3 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;
Romans 5:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
John 3:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 5:21-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 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. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
Psalm 103:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 42:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Psalm 37:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
1 Kings 11:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
Numbers 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
Genesis 4:5-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.” Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Revelation 19:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Revelation 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
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 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
2 Peter 2:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 2 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 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Hebrews 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
Hebrews 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
Titus 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 2 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.
Colossians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Colossians 3:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 4:26-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 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. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ...
Galatians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Galatians 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
Romans 12:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 2 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.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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 2:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”
Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
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 11:28-29 ESV / 2 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.
 

Prayer
 
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 1,816 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 / 1,588 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 / 1,420 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 / 1,154 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 1,141 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 / 1,098 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 / 998 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 / 865 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.
Luke 11:9 ESV / 803 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.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 745 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 680 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 / 648 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 / 583 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.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 511 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 / 488 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.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 465 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 457 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 455 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 424 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 411 helpful votes
 
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 400 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 / 387 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 360 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 / 339 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.
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 333 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.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 307 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.
Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 299 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.”
Mark 1:35 ESV / 262 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.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 261 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
James 5:13-18 ESV / 246 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. ...
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 244 helpful votes
 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 238 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
James 4:3 ESV / 232 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 218 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 216 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 185 helpful votes
 
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 183 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.’” ...
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 181 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Luke 11:9-13 ESV / 176 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!”
Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 174 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.
John 14:13 ESV / 173 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 / 163 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.
Matthew 9:35-38 ESV / 161 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.”
John 9:31 ESV / 160 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.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 159 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. ...
Psalm 141:2 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
1 John 1:9 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 16:23-24 ESV / 153 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.
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 149 helpful votes
 
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Psalm 145:18-19 ESV / 142 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.
James 4:2 ESV / 129 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.
James 1:5 ESV / 126 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 2:1-2 ESV / 125 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.
Luke 21:36 ESV / 125 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.”
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
John 14:13-14 ESV / 124 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.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 118 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
1 John 5:15 ESV / 116 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.
James 1:6-7 ESV / 115 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;
Luke 11:1 ESV / 115 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.”
James 1:6 ESV / 114 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 / 112 helpful votes
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Matthew 6:9 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Luke 6:12 ESV / 111 helpful votes
 
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Psalm 55:17 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.
Colossians 1:3 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Psalm 66:17 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 18:6 ESV / 99 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.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 95 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.”
Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 90 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.
John 15:16 ESV / 90 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.
James 5:14 ESV / 89 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.
Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 89 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 5:7 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Psalm 5:3 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Psalm 122:6 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
Luke 1:37 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
1 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 84 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.
Jude 1:20 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
James 5:13 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
James 5:16-18 ESV / 81 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 / 78 helpful votes
 
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
Matthew 21:21-22 ESV / 77 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.”
Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 76 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.’”
John 14:14 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Luke 22:31-32 ESV / 74 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.”
James 5:14-16 ESV / 73 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. 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.
James 5:13-14 ESV / 72 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.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Luke 18:10-14 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 72 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. ...
Matthew 6:9-14 ESV / 71 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. ...
1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 70 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.”
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 67 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 121:1-8 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...
Acts 12:5 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

Salvation Prophecy
 
John 3:16 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.
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Revelation 22:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
Acts 4:12 ESV / 3 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.”
Luke 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.
Micah 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Revelation 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...
Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 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 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
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 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
2 Peter 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
1 Peter 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
1 Peter 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
1 Peter 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,
Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Acts 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
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 14:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...
Luke 24:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Luke 23:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
Luke 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
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 24:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ...
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
Zechariah 11:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
Zechariah 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Jonah 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Amos 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
Daniel 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Daniel 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
Jeremiah 23:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 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. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. ...
Isaiah 40:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 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.
Psalm 110:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. ...
Psalm 83:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant— ...
Psalm 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—
2 Samuel 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”
2 Samuel 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ...

Sinners Prayer
 
1 John 1:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 76 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 2:38 ESV / 76 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.
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 9:31 ESV / 61 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.
James 5:16 ESV / 59 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.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 John 5:16 ESV / 47 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.
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 45 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,
Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 45 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.
John 3:16 ESV / 43 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.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
1 John 5:15 ESV / 39 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.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 37 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.”
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 37 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.
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 37 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.
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 35 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.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...
Romans 3:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 32 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.
Acts 16:31 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Luke 13:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 30 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.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Acts 22:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
Luke 18:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 29 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.
Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
John 6:44 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Mark 2:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
James 4:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Acts 2:21 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 27 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.’
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 26 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 ...
Acts 3:19 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
Matthew 6:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 20:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
James 5:14 ESV / 25 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.
James 4:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Galatians 3:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
“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.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 24 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.
Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Esther 5:1-14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.” And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.” Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared. ...
Romans 10:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Romans 10:1-21 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...
Acts 2:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Proverbs 15:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 21 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,
Titus 3:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 21 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.
Luke 18:10-14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
James 4:2 ESV / 20 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.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 20 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—
Acts 2:41 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 20 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.”
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Romans 8:26 ESV / 19 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.
Psalm 51:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Romans 5:6-15 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. ...
Acts 17:30 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
1 John 1:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
James 4:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Acts 16:30-31 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
John 15:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 14:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 17 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. ...
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Luke 7:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
Luke 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,
Luke 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
Mark 14:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
Mark 9:1-50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” ...
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
Matthew 22:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
Matthew 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

God House
 
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 8 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.
Genesis 28:20-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”
Genesis 14:1-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, ...
1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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 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.
Hebrews 7:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever. See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
Ephesians 2:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Luke 11:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Matthew 23:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 4 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.
Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. ...
Deuteronomy 25:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Numbers 18:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,
Leviticus 27:30 ESV / 4 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.
Exodus 25:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.
Genesis 28:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!” Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ...
Hebrews 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
Hebrews 7:1-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever. See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils! And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham. ...
1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 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 18:1-43 ESV / 3 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.’” ...
Luke 6:38 ESV / 3 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.”
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...
Malachi 3:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 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.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Nehemiah 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.
Numbers 18:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”
Exodus 33:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’
Genesis 28:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”
Genesis 14:17-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 Peter 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
James 4:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 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. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
James 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Hebrews 11:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
Hebrews 10:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And since we have a great priest over the house of God,
Hebrews 10:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 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. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 2:15 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 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.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Colossians 3:1-25 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. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...
Colossians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
Ephesians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Galatians 3:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
1 Corinthians 15:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ...
1 Corinthians 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
1 Corinthians 9:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 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 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 6:9-10 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, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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:
Romans 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 2 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.’”
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 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
Acts 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
John 20:10-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the disciples went back to their homes. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. ...
John 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 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 1:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Luke 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
Luke 18:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 2 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 9:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,
Luke 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
Luke 7:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
Luke 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,
Luke 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
Mark 14:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
Mark 9:1-50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” ...
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
Matthew 22:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
Matthew 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.