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Jesus...the true vine.

True Vine
John 15:1-27 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...John 15:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.John 15:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.John 15:1-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.Acts 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”John 15:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.Isaiah 5:1-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? ...Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,Philippians 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,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.Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.Revelation 19:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...1 Peter 2:4-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. ...Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”1 Thessalonians 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,Colossians 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.Colossians 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.Colossians 3:1 ESV / 3 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.Colossians 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.Colossians 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.Philippians 4:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.Philippians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,Philippians 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:Ephesians 5:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Because we are members of his body.Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of lightEphesians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—Ephesians 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.Ephesians 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.Ephesians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.Ephesians 2:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In loveEphesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,Ephesians 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:Galatians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.Galatians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.Galatians 4:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.Galatians 4:21-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. ...Galatians 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.2 Corinthians 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 3 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 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 3 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 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.Romans 8:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.Romans 6:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.John 15:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.John 15:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.John 15:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...John 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.John 13:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”John 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,Luke 17:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”Matthew 20:1-16 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. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...Matthew 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”Matthew 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 16:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. ...Psalm 8:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. ... 

Jesus prepares a place for you...

Preparing A Place
 
John 14:1-31 ESV / 6 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?” ...
John 14:1-3 ESV / 5 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.
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.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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?
John 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ...
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 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. ...
1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; ...
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
Acts 17:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
John 15:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
John 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
John 14:1-6 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?” ...
John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 3:36 ESV / 2 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 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 3:16-18 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. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
Mark 9:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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 7:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Is it important to hear God's voice?

Gods Voice
 
John 10:27 ESV / 1,672 helpful votes
 
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 1,488 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1,361 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
John 5:30 ESV / 1,339 helpful votes
 
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 5:25 ESV / 1,319 helpful votes
 
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
Psalm 29:3 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes
 
The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters.
John 5:37 ESV / 1,223 helpful votes
 
And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
Hebrews 3:15 ESV / 1,212 helpful votes
 
As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 1,203 helpful votes
 
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
John 14:26 ESV / 1,199 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.
Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 1,193 helpful votes
 
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.
John 8:47 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes
 
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
Genesis 3:8 ESV / 1,128 helpful votes
 
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Ezekiel 43:2 ESV / 1,121 helpful votes
 
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1,065 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1,043 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 1,039 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Psalm 5:3 ESV / 1,026 helpful votes
 
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 1,017 helpful votes
 
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
Exodus 19:19 ESV / 983 helpful votes
 
And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.
Hebrews 4:7 ESV / 969 helpful votes
 
Again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Luke 11:28 ESV / 922 helpful votes
 
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
1 John 5:14 ESV / 891 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Hebrews 1:1-2 ESV / 889 helpful votes
 
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Revelation 3:22 ESV / 887 helpful votes
 
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
Psalm 85:8 ESV / 885 helpful votes
 
Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
Matthew 17:5 ESV / 877 helpful votes
 
He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
Psalm 18:13 ESV / 876 helpful votes
 
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
1 Kings 19:12 ESV / 872 helpful votes
 
And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.
John 16:13 ESV / 868 helpful votes
 
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Revelation 19:6 ESV / 856 helpful votes
 
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
John 6:63 ESV / 831 helpful votes
 
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
James 1:22 ESV / 816 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
John 1:1 ESV / 809 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Psalm 104:7 ESV / 805 helpful votes
 
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
Psalm 77:18 ESV / 801 helpful votes
 
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
1 Kings 19:11-12 ESV / 798 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 787 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 10:3-4 ESV / 783 helpful votes
 
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10:2-4 ESV / 755 helpful votes
 
But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10:16 ESV / 752 helpful votes
 
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
Psalm 29:1-11 ESV / 708 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. ...
Psalm 50:1 ESV / 677 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
John 10:1-42 ESV / 676 helpful votes
 
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...
Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 661 helpful votes
 
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Proverbs 2:1-5 ESV / 656 helpful votes
 
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
Revelation 14:2 ESV / 651 helpful votes
 
And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,
Hebrews 3:7 ESV / 648 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 639 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 633 helpful votes
 
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Revelation 6:1 ESV / 600 helpful votes
 
Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”
1 Kings 19:11-13 ESV / 600 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper. And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Hebrews 2:1 ESV / 589 helpful votes
 
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 585 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.
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 585 helpful votes
 
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 572 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
James 1:19 ESV / 569 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
John 10:6 ESV / 556 helpful votes
 
This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Galatians 3:5 ESV / 550 helpful votes
 
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 546 helpful votes
 
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Job 40:9 ESV / 544 helpful votes
 
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Revelation 1:10 ESV / 542 helpful votes
 
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 541 helpful votes
 
But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Luke 3:22 ESV / 539 helpful votes
 
And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Revelation 4:1 ESV / 537 helpful votes
 
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
Exodus 15:26 ESV / 537 helpful votes
 
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
Jeremiah 7:23-24 ESV / 533 helpful votes
 
But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
John 10:14 ESV / 531 helpful votes
 
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 525 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
Acts 13:2 ESV / 525 helpful votes
 
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 523 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 518 helpful votes
 
To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.
John 10:1-4 ESV / 516 helpful votes
 
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
Joel 2:11 ESV / 514 helpful votes
 
The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?
Mark 4:24 ESV / 508 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.
1 Corinthians 1:18-21 ESV / 496 helpful votes
 
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 466 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Revelation 1:15 ESV / 456 helpful votes
 
His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
John 14:16-17 ESV / 419 helpful votes
 
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 409 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Acts 22:14 ESV / 390 helpful votes
 
And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;
John 10:27-28 ESV / 389 helpful votes
 
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Deuteronomy 4:12 ESV / 385 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.
Psalm 32:8-9 ESV / 377 helpful votes
 
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 375 helpful votes
 
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 371 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 Samuel 3:10 ESV / 369 helpful votes
 
And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”
Deuteronomy 28:2 ESV / 365 helpful votes
 
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 353 helpful votes
 
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 349 helpful votes
 
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Revelation 2:7 ESV / 277 helpful votes
 
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
Acts 16:6-10 ESV / 265 helpful votes
 
And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Job 37:4-5 ESV / 262 helpful votes
 
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
Hebrews 12:19 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
And the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.
1 Kings 19:9 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Isaiah 30:31-32 ESV / 248 helpful votes
 
The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he strikes with his rod. And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.
Genesis 28:13-15 ESV / 247 helpful votes
 
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Exodus 3:4 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 4:6 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

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John 8:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
1 John 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
John 12:46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Revelation 21:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 1:26-2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ...
John 9:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
John 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 10:10-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Ezekiel 16:49-50 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 36:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.
2 Kings 23:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
1 Kings 14:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.
Leviticus 20:10-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. ...
Leviticus 18:19-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.
Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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,
Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 1:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. ...
John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:1-5 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. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1-9 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. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...
Luke 1:79 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Matthew 24:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Matthew 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Matthew 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
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.
1 Kings 22:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.
Genesis 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

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Unity
 
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 3,249 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 2,967 helpful votes
 
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Psalm 133:1 ESV / 2,750 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 2,412 helpful votes
 
Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 2,137 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Romans 12:4-5 ESV / 2,035 helpful votes
 
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 2,012 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 1,874 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV / 1,722 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, ...
Acts 4:32 ESV / 1,713 helpful votes
 
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
John 17:23 ESV / 1,675 helpful votes
 
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Romans 12:16 ESV / 1,590 helpful votes
 
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Philippians 1:27 ESV / 1,579 helpful votes
 
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1,551 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Romans 14:19 ESV / 1,496 helpful votes
 
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
John 13:35 ESV / 1,424 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 1,390 helpful votes
 
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 1,357 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.
Romans 15:6 ESV / 1,298 helpful votes
 
That together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:5 ESV / 1,288 helpful votes
 
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Colossians 3:13-14 ESV / 1,127 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 1,057 helpful votes
 
As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 1,046 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Matthew 23:8 ESV / 1,019 helpful votes
 
But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.
2 Chronicles 30:12 ESV / 1,005 helpful votes
 
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 967 helpful votes
 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 John 4:12 ESV / 953 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Galatians 3:26-28 ESV / 924 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 911 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 891 helpful votes
 
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Romans 6:5 ESV / 883 helpful votes
 
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
Psalm 133:1-3 ESV / 871 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 867 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 852 helpful votes
 
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 803 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.
John 17:11-23 ESV / 783 helpful votes
 
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. ...
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 753 helpful votes
 
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Romans 15:5-7 ESV / 750 helpful votes
 
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Romans 12:4 ESV / 732 helpful votes
 
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 704 helpful votes
 
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 693 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,
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 679 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 675 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. ...
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 655 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 653 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.”
John 17:11 ESV / 649 helpful votes
 
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Philippians 2:1 ESV / 647 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
Malachi 2:10 ESV / 635 helpful votes
 
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Romans 12:5 ESV / 628 helpful votes
 
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
John 17:21-23 ESV / 628 helpful votes
 
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 596 helpful votes
 
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.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 579 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...
Philippians 2:1-4 ESV / 575 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
John 17:21 ESV / 574 helpful votes
 
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Colossians 3:11 ESV / 570 helpful votes
 
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 538 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. ...
Romans 12:16-18 ESV / 537 helpful votes
 
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 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.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 526 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,
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 524 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 519 helpful votes
 
Let brotherly love continue.
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 505 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
Amos 3:3 ESV / 480 helpful votes
 
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?
Philippians 2:1-2 ESV / 468 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 465 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Philippians 2:1-3 ESV / 457 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 435 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 427 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Philippians 4:2 ESV / 422 helpful votes
 
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 418 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Philippians 1:1-30 ESV / 397 helpful votes
 
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. ...
1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV / 397 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. ...
Romans 12:10 ESV / 380 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
1 Corinthians 1:10-13 ESV / 367 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 12:26 ESV / 359 helpful votes
 
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
1 John 4:11 ESV / 356 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 348 helpful votes
 
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 347 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 332 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Romans 12:18 ESV / 330 helpful votes
 
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 296 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ...
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 289 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.
Acts 20:28 ESV / 283 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.
John 17:20 ESV / 283 helpful votes
 
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Romans 14:1 ESV / 277 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 269 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
John 3:16 ESV / 266 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.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
Ephesians 4:2-6 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
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, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 244 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 240 helpful votes
 
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Titus 3:10-11 ESV / 231 helpful votes
 
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 231 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Philippians 2:5 ESV / 230 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Acts 2:38 ESV / 228 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.
Ephesians 4:23 ESV / 218 helpful votes
 
And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 212 helpful votes
 
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 211 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.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 202 helpful votes
 
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
1 John 3:14 ESV / 189 helpful votes
 
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

Get some rest...

Rest
 
Psalm 4:8 ESV / 5,899 helpful votes
 
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 4,955 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4,845 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Psalm 127:2 ESV / 4,554 helpful votes
 
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Exodus 33:14 ESV / 4,227 helpful votes
 
And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Mark 6:31 ESV / 4,190 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 3,845 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Psalm 62:1 ESV / 3,634 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
Hebrews 4:9-10 ESV / 3,590 helpful votes
 
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
Psalm 37:7 ESV / 3,287 helpful votes
 
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Psalm 23:1-2 ESV / 3,275 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.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 3,264 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 91:1-2 ESV / 3,228 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.”
Hebrews 4:11 ESV / 2,785 helpful votes
 
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:9-11 ESV / 2,767 helpful votes
 
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Matthew 11:29-30 ESV / 2,738 helpful votes
 
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Exodus 23:12 ESV / 2,732 helpful votes
 
“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 2,701 helpful votes
 
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Deuteronomy 5:12-14 ESV / 2,698 helpful votes
 
“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Genesis 2:2-3 ESV / 2,633 helpful votes
 
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Psalm 34:8 ESV / 2,628 helpful votes
 
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 2,586 helpful votes
 
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Mark 2:27 ESV / 2,446 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Matthew 11:29 ESV / 2,411 helpful votes
 
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.
Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 2,338 helpful votes
 
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling,
Exodus 20:8-10 ESV / 2,301 helpful votes
 
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
Psalm 55:6 ESV / 2,262 helpful votes
 
And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
Exodus 34:21 ESV / 2,190 helpful votes
 
“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
John 16:33 ESV / 2,147 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.”
Jeremiah 31:25 ESV / 2,120 helpful votes
 
For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”
Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 2,104 helpful votes
 
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Psalm 3:5 ESV / 2,103 helpful votes
 
I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
John 14:27 ESV / 2,091 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Psalm 116:7 ESV / 2,051 helpful votes
 
Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Genesis 2:3 ESV / 2,021 helpful votes
 
So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Psalm 62:5 ESV / 2,011 helpful votes
 
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
Jeremiah 6:1-16:21 ESV / 1,963 helpful votes
 
Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction. The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion. Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place. “Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen! Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!” ...
Psalm 91:1 ESV / 1,947 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 1,938 helpful votes
 
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Matthew 8:24 ESV / 1,882 helpful votes
 
And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 1,857 helpful votes
 
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Psalm 34:1-38:22 ESV / 1,744 helpful votes
 
Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. ...
Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV / 1,708 helpful votes
 
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 ESV / 1,635 helpful votes
 
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
Genesis 2:1-3 ESV / 1,622 helpful votes
 
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Psalm 62:1-2 ESV / 1,586 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Genesis 2:2 ESV / 1,502 helpful votes
 
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
Isaiah 14:3-4 ESV / 1,499 helpful votes
 
When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
Jeremiah 33:12 ESV / 1,472 helpful votes
 
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
2 Corinthians 2:13-14 ESV / 1,467 helpful votes
 
My spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
Matthew 11:3 ESV / 1,455 helpful votes
 
And said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
Isaiah 14:3 ESV / 1,415 helpful votes
 
When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 1,360 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.
Isaiah 57:1-2 ESV / 1,360 helpful votes
 
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
Mark 6:32 ESV / 1,335 helpful votes
 
And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.
Hebrews 4:1-11 ESV / 1,315 helpful votes
 
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.” ...
Romans 15:13 ESV / 1,313 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Leviticus 23:3 ESV / 1,297 helpful votes
 
“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 1,221 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.
Psalm 94:12-14 ESV / 1,212 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 1,208 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Psalm 23:2-3 ESV / 1,205 helpful votes
 
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.
Psalm 4:3 ESV / 1,177 helpful votes
 
But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.
Leviticus 25:4 ESV / 1,175 helpful votes
 
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
Exodus 20:11 ESV / 1,168 helpful votes
 
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Psalm 73:26 ESV / 1,127 helpful votes
 
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 1,126 helpful votes
 
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
Revelation 14:13 ESV / 1,114 helpful votes
 
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
Psalm 127:1-2 ESV / 1,085 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 1,052 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,044 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Psalm 23:1 ESV / 1,034 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Song of Solomon 1:7 ESV / 1,005 helpful votes
 
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?
Psalm 62:1-65:13 ESV / 975 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. ...
Proverbs 19:23 ESV / 962 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.
Isaiah 40:29-31 ESV / 958 helpful votes
 
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Revelation 14:11 ESV / 943 helpful votes
 
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 935 helpful votes
 
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 935 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Hebrews 4:1-16 ESV / 871 helpful votes
 
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.” ...
Hebrews 4:9 ESV / 833 helpful votes
 
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
Exodus 31:15 ESV / 822 helpful votes
 
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.
Hebrews 4:1 ESV / 820 helpful votes
 
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
Isaiah 48:22 ESV / 816 helpful votes
 
“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”
Psalm 4:4 ESV / 813 helpful votes
 
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
Revelation 6:11 ESV / 797 helpful votes
 
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Exodus 35:2 ESV / 791 helpful votes
 
Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 781 helpful votes
 
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...
Romans 12:2 ESV / 779 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 764 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Mark 2:27-28 ESV / 739 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
Psalm 23:2 ESV / 723 helpful votes
 
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Hebrews 4:4 ESV / 718 helpful votes
 
For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 717 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 693 helpful votes
 
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
John 3:16 ESV / 683 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Psalm 23:1-3 ESV / 681 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.
Isaiah 58:13-14 ESV / 597 helpful votes
 
“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Exodus 16:23 ESV / 581 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 563 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Gain the world and lose your soul...what will it profit you?

Lose Your Soul
 
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 5 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 10:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
James 1:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
James 1:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
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.
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Hebrews 12:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Romans 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
John 4:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Luke 24:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
Isaiah 10:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the Lord will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Genesis 39:7-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Revelation 7:13-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.
Revelation 6:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
2 Peter 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
2 Peter 1:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
2 Peter 1:5-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. ...
1 Peter 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.
1 Peter 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Colossians 3:12-15 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. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Philippians 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Galatians 5:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
2 Corinthians 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
1 Corinthians 15:35-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. ...
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
John 13:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.
John 5:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...
John 3:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 23:42-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 16:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Mark 8:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Matthew 25:24-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. ...
Matthew 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:1-34 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. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Hosea 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Daniel 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Proverbs 5:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...
Psalm 8:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, ...
Job 41:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
1 Kings 17:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the Lord, “O Lord my God, let this child's life come into him again.” And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.
Numbers 31:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.
Numbers 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
Genesis 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Genesis 1:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Son...follow the instructions of your father.

Following Instructions
 
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
2 Timothy 3:1-4:22 ESV / 88 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. ...
Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
Psalm 32:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Acts 13:1-4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
1 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 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.
1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.
Matthew 10:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
John 2:6-10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
Matthew 9:6-8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 3:1-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 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, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
John 6:55-59 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
John 6:50-71 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ...
John 15:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...
1 Kings 17:8-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Then the word of the Lord came to him, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” ...
1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
But all things should be done decently and in order.
Luke 6:46 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
1 Corinthians 3:11-15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
Malachi 3:8-15 ESV / 10 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. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts. Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts. ...
Exodus 34:1-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. ...
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 9 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.”
John 14:1-20:31 ESV / 9 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?” ...
Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...
1 Kings 13:4-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before. And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.” And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place, ...
Judges 13:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” ...
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Isaiah 26:1-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust. ...
Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Genesis 6:14-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.
John 21:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” ...

Focus on God

Focusing On God
 
Romans 12:2 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 47 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.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
1 John 2:15 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 4:25 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
John 3:16 ESV / 20 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.
1 Peter 3:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Philippians 3:12-14 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 2:2-5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
Colossians 3:1 ESV / 18 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.
Hebrews 3:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
Colossians 2:6-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Romans 8:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Matthew 24:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...
Psalm 123:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.
Psalm 73:26 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 13 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.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 1:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:1-4 ESV / 11 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.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Psalm 138:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 19:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
Romans 12:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 10 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.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 4:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 12:1-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Hebrews 11:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...
Philippians 3:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 9 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.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 9 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;
1 Corinthians 4:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. ...
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 15:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 12:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Acts 19:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”
Acts 1:14 ESV / 9 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.
Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...
Psalm 29:1-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. ...
Nehemiah 6:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Exodus 3:1-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ...
Exodus 2:11-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. ...
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Proverbs 5:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 6 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. ...
Romans 10:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Hebrews 9:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 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.
John 6:60 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Revelation 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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.
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
1 Timothy 2:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 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.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 3 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.
1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
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.

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Following Instructions
 
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 161 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
2 Timothy 3:1-4:22 ESV / 87 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. ...
Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
Psalm 32:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Acts 13:1-4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
1 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 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.
1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.
Matthew 10:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
John 2:6-10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
Matthew 9:6-8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 3:1-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 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, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
John 6:55-59 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
John 6:50-71 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ...
John 15:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...
1 Kings 17:8-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Then the word of the Lord came to him, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.” So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” ...
1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
But all things should be done decently and in order.
Luke 6:46 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
1 Corinthians 3:11-15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
Malachi 3:8-15 ESV / 10 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. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts. Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts. ...
Exodus 34:1-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. ...
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 9 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.”
John 14:1-20:31 ESV / 9 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?” ...
Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...
1 Kings 13:4-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before. And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.” And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place, ...
Judges 13:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” ...
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Isaiah 26:1-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust. ...
Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Genesis 6:14-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.
John 21:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” ...