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Love for your Enemy

Love For Your Enemy
 
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 6 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. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...
Romans 12:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
John 13:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 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.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 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; ...
John 13:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Luke 23:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Luke 6:27-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Mark 12:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43-44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
1 John 4:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
James 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 2 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.
1 Corinthians 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
Romans 13:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 12:17-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 7:60 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:9-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 14:21-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 10:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...
Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Luke 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Mark 12:28-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...
Matthew 19:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...
Matthew 5:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:43-45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:21-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Psalm 138:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Psalm 17:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.

Only a fool will do such things...

There Is No God
 
Psalm 14:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Exodus 20:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You shall have no other gods before me.
Hebrews 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 4:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Isaiah 46:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isaiah 45:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,
Psalm 139:7-12 ESV / 3 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. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” ...
Psalm 90:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Exodus 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Titus 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
1 Corinthians 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Luke 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 21:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isaiah 40:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.
Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 111:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Psalm 83:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
Psalm 53:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
1 Samuel 25:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Deuteronomy 4:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

When is Jesus Coming Back?

Jesus Is Coming Back
 
1 John 5:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
Titus 2:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Acts 20:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Luke 2:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Revelation 19:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
Revelation 4:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.
1 John 5:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
James 2:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Titus 1:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Colossians 1:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Galatians 3:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Romans 15:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
That together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:30 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Acts 9:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Acts 7:59 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 2:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
John 20:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 14:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
John 10:30 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I and the Father are one.”
John 8:41 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”
John 3:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
John 1:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Mark 12:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mark 2:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Matthew 23:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Matthew 14:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.
Matthew 1:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Matthew 1:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Malachi 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.
Malachi 2:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Zechariah 14:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
Zechariah 14:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Hosea 13:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Isaiah 45:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isaiah 44:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”
Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isaiah 43:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isaiah 42:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 10 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.
1 Kings 18:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Revelation 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Jude 1:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
2 Corinthians 11:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
1 Corinthians 10:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1 Corinthians 8:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
John 14:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 12:44-45 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
John 4:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Mark 12:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.
Mark 2:5-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? ...
Mark 1:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 10:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Matthew 4:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,
Job 9:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
Deuteronomy 32:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
Revelation 1:17-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
John 14:9-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Luke 10:21-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Matthew 3:16-17 ESV / 8 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; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Isaiah 63:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Acts 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
John 3:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ...
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Revelation 19:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. ...
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Revelation 9:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ...
Revelation 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
2 Peter 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, ...
2 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

A quick Lesson...

God Makes You Holy
 
Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Leviticus 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Revelation 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
Luke 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
Isaiah 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
Revelation 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...
Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
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.
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
John 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Mark 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”
Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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?
Habakkuk 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 40:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.
Isaiah 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” ...
Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Psalm 119:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
Psalm 96:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!
1 Samuel 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“There is none holy like the Lord; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
Deuteronomy 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Leviticus 20:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Leviticus 11:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
Exodus 15:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

Please please please...Don’t cancel the Spirit!

Dont Stifle The Holy Ghost
 
1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Do not quench the Spirit.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
John 14:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 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,
Titus 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
1 Thessalonians 5:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not despise prophecies,
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Luke 11:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...
Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Acts 13:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 2:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Acts 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 14:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
John 14:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 7:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 3:5 ESV / 2 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.
Luke 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.
Luke 1:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 3:11 ESV / 2 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.
Ezekiel 36:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
Psalm 143:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
Psalm 51:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Genesis 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Repaying Evil...

Repaying Evil
 
Romans 12:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 5 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.”
1 John 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 4 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, ...
Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Romans 12:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 5:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Deuteronomy 7:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Leviticus 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.
Exodus 21:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 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.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
James 5:16 ESV / 2 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.
Hebrews 12:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Titus 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
Ephesians 5:3-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
1 Corinthians 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...
Romans 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 5:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Romans 3:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Acts 16:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
John 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”
John 19:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 6:1-71 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...
John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
Luke 6:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Luke 6:27-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Mark 6:50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”
Matthew 27:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Matthew 5:38-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Isaiah 6:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...
Psalm 145:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
Psalm 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.
Psalm 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Psalm 5:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
Joshua 10:40-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded. And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon. And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.
Joshua 6:15-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” ...
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 9:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the Lord your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.
Deuteronomy 7:22-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Deuteronomy 7:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Moreover, the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
Deuteronomy 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Numbers 30:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ...
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Exodus 34:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Exodus 20:5 ESV / 2 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,

Self-Confidence

Self Confidence
 
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,884 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,579 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Hebrews 10:35-36 ESV / 1,353 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 1,250 helpful votes
 
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 767 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.
Psalm 27:3 ESV / 642 helpful votes
 
Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 517 helpful votes
 
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 508 helpful votes
 
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 508 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.
Psalm 138:8 ESV / 432 helpful votes
 
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 430 helpful votes
 
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:4-7 ESV / 420 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 386 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 355 helpful votes
 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 348 helpful votes
 
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 345 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 3:26 ESV / 343 helpful votes
 
For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 323 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
1 Corinthians 2:3-5 ESV / 268 helpful votes
 
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Luke 14:8-11 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
James 1:12 ESV / 199 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 188 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Proverbs 3:1-26:28 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 151 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 141 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. ...
Hebrews 10:35 ESV / 134 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 130 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 125 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.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 118 helpful votes
 
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Romans 12:3 ESV / 113 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.
John 3:16 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 3:3 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—
1 John 5:14 ESV / 104 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 104 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Psalm 139:14 ESV / 101 helpful votes
 
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 20:7 ESV / 98 helpful votes
 
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
Philippians 2:14 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Psalm 27:1-2 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Psalm 42:5 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
Romans 8:30 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Romans 8:32 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Nehemiah 6:16 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Ephesians 3:12 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
John 13:34-35 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Isaiah 32:17 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.
Galatians 5:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
Proverbs 28:1 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Psalm 118:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
Psalm 50:15 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Deuteronomy 32:10 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Proverbs 3:24-26 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
2 Corinthians 3:4-6 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
John 15:26 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
2 Chronicles 32:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
1 John 4:4 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 4:17 ESV / 38 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 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Ephesians 1:18-23 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 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. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, ...
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Matthew 18:10 ESV / 36 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.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Proverbs 3:25-26 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”
Mark 9:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Matthew 9:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 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 3:5-6 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 56:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
1 John 3:20-21 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
Luke 5:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.

Come close to GOD...and GOD will come close to you.

Come Close To God
 
James 4:8 ESV / 10 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.
Psalm 73:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 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.
Hebrews 7:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
(for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Philippians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 8:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 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!”
Acts 2:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 21:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, ...
Luke 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Mark 13:1-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. ...
Jeremiah 23:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
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 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Psalm 73:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you. But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Psalm 51:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
1 Samuel 18:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 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.”
James 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Wealthy Oppressors

Wealthy Oppressors
 
James 5:1-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...
Malachi 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Romans 12:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Jeremiah 22:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
James 4:1-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...
James 3:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
James 2:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
James 2:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 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.
John 14:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Psalm 146:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
Psalm 119:134 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep your precepts.
Psalm 72:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Psalm 9:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
James 5:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...
James 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
Luke 11:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 4:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Matthew 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Zechariah 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.
Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Amos 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 2 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. ...
Jeremiah 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Jeremiah 5:25-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”
Isaiah 54:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
Isaiah 30:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,
Isaiah 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.
Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
Ecclesiastes 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Proverbs 22:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
Psalm 103:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Psalm 82:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Psalm 43:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalm 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. ...
Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

It’s time to return to the LORD...we’ve done enough evil.

Return To The Lord
 
Micah 7:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Joel 2:13 ESV / 4 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.
Hosea 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
Jeremiah 24:7 ESV / 4 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.
Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Hosea 14:1-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.” I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; ...
Psalm 69:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
1 John 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 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.”
James 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Hebrews 10:18-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ...
Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Titus 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
2 Corinthians 6:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; ...
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 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.
Romans 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Romans 10:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 6:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 4:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 14:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,
Mark 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Matthew 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 5:44-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:23-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Zechariah 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”
Joel 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Joel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Joel 2:12-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 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. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. ...
Joel 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
Hosea 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Hosea 14:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Hosea 13:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!” Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window. But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; ...
Hosea 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Hosea 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
Ezekiel 18:21 ESV / 2 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.
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. ...
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 44:22 ESV / 2 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 103:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
Psalm 52:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Exodus 34:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,