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Is God ever late?

Gods Time
 
2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 144 helpful votes
 
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 115 helpful votes
 
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Psalm 31:15 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Habakkuk 2:3 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 92 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.
Ecclesiastes 8:6 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Psalm 90:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Lamentations 3:25-26 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 74 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.
Acts 1:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
Galatians 4:4 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Psalm 27:14 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 66 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.
2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 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.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 90:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 58 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. ...
Romans 5:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Psalm 90:1-17 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: ...
John 14:27 ESV / 54 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.
Mark 1:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Genesis 18:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
John 7:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 46 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 ...
Romans 8:28 ESV / 45 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.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 44 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.
Micah 7:7 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Peter 1:20 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
Isaiah 49:8 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ...
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
John 1:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 18:27 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
Ecclesiastes 3:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
Hebrews 6:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Colossians 4:5 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
James 4:13-15 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Psalm 37:3-4 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 37 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.
Titus 1:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Psalm 90:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ...
Psalm 139:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
1 John 2:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 32 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. ...
Galatians 1:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 31 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; ...
John 3:16 ESV / 31 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.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 30 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 Thessalonians 5:1-3 ESV / 30 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.
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Joshua 1:8-9 ESV / 30 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. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
1 Thessalonians 5:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
Psalm 62:1-2 ESV / 28 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.
Psalm 31:14-15 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Luke 1:37 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Isaiah 60:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the Lord; in its time I will hasten it.
James 4:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
1 Timothy 6:14-15 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
To keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
Matthew 26:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”
Matthew 24:36 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
John 15:5 ESV / 25 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.
Psalm 18:30 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
John 4:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:1-36 ESV / 24 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. ...
Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Ephesians 5:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 23 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.
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 21 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.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 20 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.
James 1:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Titus 1:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
And at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 18 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.
Psalm 37:7 ESV / 18 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!

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Spiritual Gifts
 
Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 587 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 489 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 367 helpful votes
 
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ...
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 317 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; ...
1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 253 helpful votes
 
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 242 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, ...
Romans 12:3-8 ESV / 242 helpful votes
 
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 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. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ...
Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 225 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 203 helpful votes
 
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
1 Corinthians 12:1 ESV / 175 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Romans 12:6 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 159 helpful votes
 
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Romans 1:11 ESV / 153 helpful votes
 
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 146 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
1 Corinthians 12:27-28 ESV / 146 helpful votes
 
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 129 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,
1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
Romans 12:4-5 ESV / 121 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.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 118 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 115 helpful votes
 
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 115 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. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 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. ...
1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
1 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
Ephesians 4:12-13 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
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,
Exodus 31:1-6 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ...
1 Corinthians 12:1-14:40 ESV / 102 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; ...
1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 94 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.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 93 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, ...
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 89 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...
Romans 12:8 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 1:7 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
So that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
James 1:17 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:6 ESV / 71 helpful votes
 
And there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Corinthians 12:30 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
Romans 11:29 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 67 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. ...
1 Corinthians 12:27-31 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 ESV / 64 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; ...
1 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
1 Corinthians 12:31 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
Romans 12:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
If service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;
1 Corinthians 12:18 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
1 Corinthians 12:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 Corinthians 13:10 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 52 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 2:10 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 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. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ...
1 Corinthians 12:28-31 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
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.
Joel 2:28-30 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Luke 12:48 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
1 Corinthians 14:3 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
Hebrews 2:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 43 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.
Jeremiah 1:4-6 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Ephesians 4:11-12 ESV / 41 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,
Luke 11:11-13 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Acts 2:38 ESV / 40 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.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 39 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.
Ephesians 4:7-8 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”
John 6:44 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 37 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.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
James 3:1 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
1 Corinthians 14:39 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
Exodus 35:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
“Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
Acts 2:4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Matthew 25:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...
Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 30 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.
Ephesians 4:7 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
John 3:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 Corinthians 13:8-10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
1 Corinthians 4:6-7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Psalm 34:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
 

No Spirit...no fruit

No Fruit
 
John 15:1-27 ESV / 8 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 15:5 ESV / 5 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 15:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
James 2:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
John 15:1-8 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. ...
Matthew 7:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
1 John 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 Peter 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
James 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Colossians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
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.
Galatians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 3:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. ...
Romans 7:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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 3:1-9:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...
Romans 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He will render to each one according to his works:
John 21:15-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.” ...
John 17:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...
John 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:10 ESV / 2 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.
John 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
John 15:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
John 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
John 15:1-2 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.
John 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 6:63 ESV / 2 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.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 13:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
Matthew 15:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” ...
Matthew 7:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Matthew 7:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Matthew 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

The dead fiq tree

Fig Tree
 
Matthew 21:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
Mark 11:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”
Mark 11:12-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
Hebrews 9:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
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.
Luke 19:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.
1 John 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
1 Peter 5:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
Romans 15:4 ESV / 3 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.
Acts 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
(Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
Luke 3:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, ...
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 24:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Matthew 24:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Matthew 16:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 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 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
Zechariah 9:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Micah 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 3 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.
Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...
2 Chronicles 9:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 4:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
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. ...
Revelation 22:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 12:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
Revelation 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
Revelation 7:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, ...
Revelation 6:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Revelation 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
Jude 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son.
James 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Hebrews 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
2 Thessalonians 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels
1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 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.
Romans 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
Romans 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 22:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
Acts 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.
Acts 7:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
John 21:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn.
John 21:1-25 ESV / 2 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.” ...
John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
John 19:38-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
John 19:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
John 18:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
Luke 24:51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
Luke 24:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.
Luke 23:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 21:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place.
Luke 21:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.
Luke 21:20-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Luke 21:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, ...
Luke 18:35-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” And he cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” ...
Luke 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 13:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.
Luke 3:23-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, ...
Luke 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Luke 3:22 ESV / 2 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.”
Luke 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Matthew 26:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Matthew 24:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 24:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Matthew 24:32-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Matthew 24:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.
Matthew 24:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matthew 24:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Matthew 24:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Matthew 24:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Matthew 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.
Matthew 21:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
Matthew 17:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.”
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. ...
Matthew 12:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 10:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 5:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Matthew 5:17-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
Matthew 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, ...
Malachi 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
Zechariah 11:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
Zechariah 11:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.

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?

We reflect Jesus' light...when He shines on us.

The Light Of Jesus
 
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.

Jesus prayed for us...and unity.

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.

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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.