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Friday May 13, 2022

Are you angry with GOD? (let’s talk about it)

Friday May 13, 2022

Angry With God

Job 42:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
Mark 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
2 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 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.
Jonah 4:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
1 John 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Matthew 13:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.
Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
Psalm 51:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Friday May 13, 2022

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Friday May 13, 2022

Repent

Acts 3:19 ESV / 643 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 488 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.
Matthew 4:17 ESV / 460 helpful votes

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Luke 13:3 ESV / 453 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 450 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 431 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 17:30 ESV / 362 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
Matthew 3:8 ESV / 318 helpful votes

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 318 helpful votes

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Matthew 3:2 ESV / 302 helpful votes

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Acts 11:18 ESV / 294 helpful votes

When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”
Luke 5:32 ESV / 281 helpful votes

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Romans 2:4 ESV / 262 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 248 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Revelation 2:5 ESV / 244 helpful votes

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.
Mark 1:15 ESV / 236 helpful votes

And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Acts 5:31 ESV / 225 helpful votes

God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
Revelation 3:19 ESV / 222 helpful votes

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 220 helpful votes

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
Luke 15:7 ESV / 209 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 24:47 ESV / 200 helpful votes

And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
2 Timothy 2:25 ESV / 193 helpful votes

Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Ezekiel 18:32 ESV / 186 helpful votes

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 170 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,
Luke 13:5 ESV / 167 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
Acts 20:21 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 26:20 ESV / 165 helpful votes

But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
Luke 15:10 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
2 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 155 helpful votes

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.
Revelation 3:3 ESV / 151 helpful votes

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Matthew 9:13 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Luke 17:3 ESV / 144 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Mark 1:4 ESV / 142 helpful votes

John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Jeremiah 31:19 ESV / 139 helpful votes

For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Romans 2:5 ESV / 129 helpful votes

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Acts 8:22 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
Luke 5:31-32 ESV / 128 helpful votes

And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Jonah 3:10 ESV / 128 helpful votes

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Joel 2:13 ESV / 128 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
James 4:8 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Luke 3:3 ESV / 123 helpful votes

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
Zechariah 1:3 ESV / 122 helpful votes

Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
Mark 6:12 ESV / 121 helpful votes

So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.
Revelation 2:16 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.
2 Chronicles 30:9 ESV / 118 helpful votes

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”
Ezekiel 18:30-32 ESV / 117 helpful votes

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”
Isaiah 44:22 ESV / 115 helpful votes

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Psalm 38:18 ESV / 115 helpful votes

I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
Mark 1:14-15 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Ezekiel 33:11 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 14:6 ESV / 109 helpful votes

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 18:21-23 ESV / 106 helpful votes

“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
Matthew 3:11 ESV / 105 helpful votes

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Psalm 51:4 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
2 Corinthians 7:9-10 ESV / 102 helpful votes

As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
Job 42:6 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
John 6:44 ESV / 100 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.
Luke 3:8 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
Matthew 21:32 ESV / 96 helpful votes

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Ezekiel 18:23 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
Hebrews 12:17 ESV / 95 helpful votes

For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Acts 11:21 ESV / 89 helpful votes

And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:3 ESV / 89 helpful votes

It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31 ESV / 88 helpful votes

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 87 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 19:4 ESV / 84 helpful votes

And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Isaiah 55:6-7 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Luke 3:8-9 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 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.”
Acts 13:24 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 78 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
James 5:19-20 ESV / 77 helpful votes

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Revelation 2:21 ESV / 76 helpful votes

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
Hebrews 6:6 ESV / 75 helpful votes

And then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
Jeremiah 24:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Psalm 41:4 ESV / 73 helpful votes

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Jeremiah 18:8 ESV / 72 helpful votes

And if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Psalm 34:14 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Revelation 2:22 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
Matthew 12:41 ESV / 71 helpful votes

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Exodus 32:14 ESV / 70 helpful votes

And the Lord relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.
Isaiah 19:22 ESV / 69 helpful votes

And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the Lord, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.
Luke 24:46-47 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
John 3:16 ESV / 66 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.
Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. 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. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 65 helpful votes

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 62 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.”
2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 62 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.
Jeremiah 31:18-20 ESV / 62 helpful votes

I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God. For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.
Psalm 51:13 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
Psalm 51:1 ESV / 61 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Hosea 14:1 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
John 8:24 ESV / 59 helpful votes

I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
John 3:36 ESV / 58 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.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Joel 2:12 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Friday May 13, 2022

Don’t Run...(Running from God Pt.2)

Friday May 13, 2022

Running From God

Psalm 139:7-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
Jonah 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
Jonah 1:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

No one understands; no one seeks for God.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.
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.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Matthew 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;
Jonah 1:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. ...
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 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. ...
2 Kings 14:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
Genesis 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...
Ephesians 3:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power.

Friday May 13, 2022

Running from GOD won’t help the situation...

Friday May 13, 2022

Don’t Fear bad news!

Friday May 13, 2022

Bad News

Psalm 112:6-7 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever. He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
John 16:33 ESV / 43 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.”
Isaiah 54:1-17 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities. “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. ...
1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 13 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.
Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
John 14:27 ESV / 8 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.
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. ...
Isaiah 45:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: “I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, ...
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Ezekiel 16:49-50 ESV / 6 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.
Isaiah 41:1-42:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he. The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come. ...
Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...
Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 5 helpful votes

After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...
Matthew 19:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ...
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Psalm 113:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 112:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
Ephesians 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Galatians 3:23-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Friday May 13, 2022

If you want Successful Children...Listen to this!

Friday May 13, 2022

Children

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4,966 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3,884 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3,021 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2,969 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Psalm 127:3 ESV / 2,704 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Matthew 18:10 ESV / 2,599 helpful votes

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 2,545 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 1,980 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 1,720 helpful votes

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
Matthew 19:14 ESV / 1,588 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 1,565 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 1,541 helpful votes

Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
John 16:21 ESV / 1,530 helpful votes

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 1,508 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 1,508 helpful votes

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 1,471 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 1,405 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 1,400 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 1,399 helpful votes

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Psalm 113:9 ESV / 1,368 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Mark 10:14 ESV / 1,366 helpful votes

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 1,347 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 1,315 helpful votes

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 1,306 helpful votes

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Psalm 8:2 ESV / 1,266 helpful votes

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 1,151 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Matthew 21:15-16 ESV / 1,106 helpful votes

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
Matthew 18:2-6 ESV / 1,059 helpful votes

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 1,042 helpful votes

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
John 1:12 ESV / 1,035 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Genesis 33:5 ESV / 1,032 helpful votes

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
3 John 1:4 ESV / 1,031 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 1,018 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 1,012 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 972 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
James 1:17 ESV / 949 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 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 947 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 873 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 863 helpful votes

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 852 helpful votes

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
John 3:16 ESV / 838 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 19:13-15 ESV / 837 helpful votes

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away.
Hebrews 12:9-11 ESV / 836 helpful votes

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 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.
Mark 9:37 ESV / 836 helpful votes

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
Matthew 18:1-3 ESV / 827 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 826 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.
Mark 9:36-37 ESV / 811 helpful votes

And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 779 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 139:13-16 ESV / 774 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 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 3:1 ESV / 735 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 717 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.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 702 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 693 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 681 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 679 helpful votes

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Matthew 19:13-14 ESV / 678 helpful votes

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Luke 18:16 ESV / 673 helpful votes

But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
Mark 10:15 ESV / 666 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 643 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 636 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 633 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 632 helpful votes

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 621 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. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 605 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.
Genesis 18:19 ESV / 597 helpful votes

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 588 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Exodus 20:5-6 ESV / 574 helpful votes

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, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
1 John 5:21 ESV / 571 helpful votes

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Romans 8:16 ESV / 571 helpful votes

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Luke 17:2 ESV / 564 helpful votes

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
Matthew 18:12-14 ESV / 535 helpful votes

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Acts 16:31 ESV / 512 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Romans 8:19 ESV / 505 helpful votes

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 503 helpful votes

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
Romans 8:15 ESV / 503 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Psalm 128:3 ESV / 497 helpful votes

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
2 Chronicles 34:1-3 ESV / 491 helpful votes

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 477 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.
Galatians 3:26-27 ESV / 467 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.
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 467 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 453 helpful votes

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
1 John 3:2-3 ESV / 449 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 448 helpful votes

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 437 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Isaiah 38:19 ESV / 424 helpful votes

The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 423 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 417 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Luke 2:52 ESV / 413 helpful votes

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
James 1:27 ESV / 406 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 393 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Psalm 115:14 ESV / 387 helpful votes

May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!
Deuteronomy 30:1-3 ESV / 386 helpful votes

“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 379 helpful votes

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 362 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 362 helpful votes

The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 346 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 330 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 300 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 282 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Friday May 13, 2022

What is the Kingdom of GOD...and where is it?

Friday May 13, 2022

Kingdom Of God

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 659 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
John 18:36 ESV / 505 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.”
Luke 17:20-21 ESV / 476 helpful votes

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
Mark 1:15 ESV / 449 helpful votes

And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Romans 14:17 ESV / 426 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 4:17 ESV / 307 helpful votes

From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Daniel 2:44 ESV / 302 helpful votes

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
Matthew 16:19 ESV / 276 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.”
Revelation 11:15 ESV / 263 helpful votes

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
Matthew 25:34 ESV / 258 helpful votes

Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Acts 28:31 ESV / 250 helpful votes

Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
Matthew 6:10 ESV / 225 helpful votes

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 212 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,
Matthew 12:28 ESV / 209 helpful votes

But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Daniel 7:27 ESV / 209 helpful votes

And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.’
Matthew 5:3 ESV / 203 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 3:3 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Luke 10:9 ESV / 194 helpful votes

Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
Zechariah 14:9 ESV / 174 helpful votes

And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
Mark 1:14-15 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 172 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
John 3:5 ESV / 168 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Matthew 5:10 ESV / 168 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Colossians 1:13 ESV / 166 helpful votes

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Luke 17:21 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
Psalm 103:19 ESV / 165 helpful votes

The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 163 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.
Matthew 3:2 ESV / 157 helpful votes

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Luke 11:20 ESV / 151 helpful votes

But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 12:32 ESV / 148 helpful votes

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Revelation 21:1-4 ESV / 141 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
1 Corinthians 4:20 ESV / 141 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
Matthew 5:20 ESV / 137 helpful votes

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 13:11 ESV / 136 helpful votes

And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Matthew 24:14 ESV / 134 helpful votes

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Matthew 19:14 ESV / 128 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 4:23 ESV / 124 helpful votes

And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
Luke 13:28-29 ESV / 119 helpful votes

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.
Acts 28:23 ESV / 118 helpful votes

When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
1 Corinthians 15:50 ESV / 115 helpful votes

I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 115 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 114 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.
Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 113 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Luke 16:16 ESV / 110 helpful votes

“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.
Luke 9:2 ESV / 109 helpful votes

And he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.
Revelation 5:10 ESV / 107 helpful votes

And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”
Matthew 13:44 ESV / 105 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Luke 4:43 ESV / 103 helpful votes

But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”
Matthew 9:35 ESV / 103 helpful votes

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.
Matthew 10:7 ESV / 100 helpful votes

And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
Mark 9:1 ESV / 99 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”
Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 98 helpful votes

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Philippians 3:20 ESV / 95 helpful votes

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Acts 8:12 ESV / 95 helpful votes

But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Matthew 11:12 ESV / 93 helpful votes

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.
John 3:16 ESV / 92 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 18:3 ESV / 92 helpful votes

And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:5 ESV / 92 helpful votes

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Revelation 20:4-6 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Acts 1:6 ESV / 85 helpful votes

So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
Acts 3:19-21 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
Acts 28:30-31 ESV / 79 helpful votes

He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
Acts 19:8 ESV / 79 helpful votes

And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

Friday May 13, 2022

Is it wrong to eat certain foods? IDK...

Friday May 13, 2022

Food

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 1,187 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 1:29 ESV / 911 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
John 6:35 ESV / 836 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Genesis 9:3 ESV / 724 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 594 helpful votes

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 522 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 491 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.’”
1 Timothy 4:4-5 ESV / 456 helpful votes

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 438 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
John 6:27 ESV / 408 helpful votes

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Mark 7:14-23 ESV / 381 helpful votes

And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) ...
Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 356 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Matthew 6:25 ESV / 354 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 340 helpful votes

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
John 4:34 ESV / 314 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Matthew 5:6 ESV / 308 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Psalm 104:15 ESV / 308 helpful votes

And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.
Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 308 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...
Psalm 136:25 ESV / 262 helpful votes

He who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 258 helpful votes

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.
Psalm 107:9 ESV / 234 helpful votes

For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
Genesis 1:30 ESV / 222 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 218 helpful votes

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
Colossians 2:16-17 ESV / 212 helpful votes

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 208 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 206 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 204 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
Exodus 16:12 ESV / 194 helpful votes

“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 188 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.
Genesis 9:3-4 ESV / 188 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 182 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Proverbs 27:7 ESV / 178 helpful votes

One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 174 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.
John 6:51 ESV / 166 helpful votes

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 140 helpful votes

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 140 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 138 helpful votes

For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
Acts 2:46-47 ESV / 138 helpful votes

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Luke 9:16-17 ESV / 138 helpful votes

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 138 helpful votes

And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 138 helpful votes

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Genesis 43:11 ESV / 132 helpful votes

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
3 John 1:2 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.
Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 111 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
2 Samuel 17:27-29 ESV / 111 helpful votes

When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils, honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”
Exodus 16:31 ESV / 111 helpful votes

Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 111 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Judges 14:8-9 ESV / 101 helpful votes

After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.
Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 99 helpful votes

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ...
Job 10:10 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
Job 6:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
Luke 15:23 ESV / 91 helpful votes

And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
Genesis 19:3 ESV / 91 helpful votes

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.
Matthew 14:19 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 86 helpful votes

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. ...
Ezra 6:9 ESV / 86 helpful votes

And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 81 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. ...
Numbers 17:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes

On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.
Acts 14:17 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
Matthew 3:4 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Isaiah 65:3-6 ESV / 78 helpful votes

A people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks; who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels; who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day. Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom
Luke 11:12 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Job 23:12 ESV / 74 helpful votes

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Nehemiah 13:15 ESV / 74 helpful votes

In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.
Revelation 6:2-6 ESV / 64 helpful votes

And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
1 Corinthians 10:20-21 ESV / 64 helpful votes

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

Friday May 13, 2022

Criticism Pt. 2

Friday May 13, 2022

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 928 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
James 5:9 ESV / 899 helpful votes

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 887 helpful votes

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
Luke 17:3 ESV / 879 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 866 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 822 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.
Proverbs 15:31-32 ESV / 821 helpful votes

The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 820 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:16 ESV / 809 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 7:24 ESV / 808 helpful votes

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 805 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
1 John 1:9 ESV / 796 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 792 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 763 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 755 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 712 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.
Exodus 22:18 ESV / 706 helpful votes

“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
Proverbs 15:31-33 ESV / 693 helpful votes

The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 686 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.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 683 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.
Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 669 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 651 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Philippians 2:1-11 ESV / 631 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 rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
Matthew 7:3-5 ESV / 613 helpful votes

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Proverbs 29:1 ESV / 570 helpful votes

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Matthew 10:8 ESV / 538 helpful votes

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 522 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.
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 502 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 417 helpful votes

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.

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The dangers of criticism...

Friday May 13, 2022

Criticism

Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 4,137 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
James 4:11-12 ESV / 3,867 helpful votes

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3,736 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
James 1:19-20 ESV / 3,623 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3,292 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3,192 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 14:4 ESV / 3,092 helpful votes

Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 2,808 helpful votes

The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 2,737 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 2,558 helpful votes

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2,521 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
2 Timothy 2:24-25 ESV / 2,477 helpful votes

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 2,432 helpful votes

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 9:8 ESV / 2,330 helpful votes

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Galatians 5:15 ESV / 2,222 helpful votes

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2,213 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 2,117 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 2,107 helpful votes

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 2,093 helpful votes

Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2,091 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 2,059 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Acts 7:51 ESV / 1,983 helpful votes

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
Matthew 7:2 ESV / 1,966 helpful votes

For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1,962 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 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 1,899 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.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 ESV / 1,898 helpful votes

Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 ESV / 1,850 helpful votes

Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Job 38:2-3 ESV / 1,833 helpful votes

“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,814 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 14:10 ESV / 1,811 helpful votes

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 1,792 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 1,771 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 1,767 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Revelation 3:15-16 ESV / 1,748 helpful votes

“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
James 2:13 ESV / 1,726 helpful votes

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 1,713 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 1,662 helpful votes

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. ...
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 1,645 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.
John 8:7 ESV / 1,643 helpful votes

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Romans 2:1 ESV / 1,622 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 1,591 helpful votes

Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,584 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. ...
Proverbs 15:1-2 ESV / 1,579 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Romans 14:13 ESV / 1,572 helpful votes

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 1,553 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; ...
Luke 6:37-38 ESV / 1,553 helpful votes

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 1,540 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 1,523 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.
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 1,522 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 1,520 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.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 1,511 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.
Proverbs 9:8-9 ESV / 1,510 helpful votes

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1,494 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 1,468 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.
2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 1,468 helpful votes

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Amos 3:3 ESV / 1,455 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 1,438 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,435 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,
Romans 8:1 ESV / 1,429 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 10:10 ESV / 1,417 helpful votes

For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”
James 5:16 ESV / 1,403 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Romans 2:1-4 ESV / 1,399 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
1 Peter 2:23 ESV / 1,384 helpful votes

When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
3 John 1:9-10 ESV / 1,319 helpful votes

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 1,291 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 1,239 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 1,200 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 1,135 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Matthew 23:24 ESV / 1,048 helpful votes

You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

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