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Wait...GOD has an angry Judgement?

Angry Judgement
 
Romans 6:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Romans 14:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Luke 6:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Matthew 12:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 3 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. ...
1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
James 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Romans 14:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Romans 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 7:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
Ecclesiastes 12:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Psalm 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Revelation 20:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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,

Competition at church?

Competition
 
Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 471 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV / 454 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 314 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 288 helpful votes
 
An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Galatians 6:4 ESV / 217 helpful votes
 
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 198 helpful votes
 
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 191 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 159 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
James 4:6 ESV / 145 helpful votes
 
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Luke 16:15 ESV / 140 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV / 131 helpful votes
 
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 129 helpful votes
 
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-26 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity. There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Ecclesiastes 4:4 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 19:30 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Psalm 108:13 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
John 15:13 ESV / 116 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 114 helpful votes
 
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
Galatians 5:26 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Acts 20:24 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
James 4:1 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 59 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.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
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.”
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
2 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Romans 12:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
James 3:13-18 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. ...
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Isaiah 5:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...
Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Isaiah 14:12-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.
1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Galatians 6:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
John 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
John 17:1-26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...
James 3:14-16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
John 16:33 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 13:34-35 ESV / 24 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 18:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 Samuel 18:7-9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.” And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?” And Saul eyed David from that day on.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
John 8:44 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Psalm 37:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Jude 1:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
Galatians 5:20 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Romans 8:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 19 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.
Psalm 45:2-10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty! In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds! Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; ...
1 Peter 2:23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
1 John 2:15-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 17 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.
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
1 Samuel 18:15-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him. But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.
Romans 13:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Isaiah 14:12-14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
Mark 9:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Philippians 3:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
Matthew 9:37-38 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Philippians 3:12-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
1 Samuel 1:1-28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. ...
Colossians 3:12-15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. Again, I saw vanity under the sun: one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-3:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. ...
Proverbs 16:18-19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
1 Corinthians 9:25-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 9 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.
Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 8 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.”
Philippians 1:14-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice, ...
1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
Isaiah 40:29-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-6:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. ...
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Corinthians 4:6-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 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.
 

What will the Judgement be based on?

The Judgement
 
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
John 5:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
1 Corinthians 15:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Daniel 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Romans 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 25:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 16:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Psalm 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
Revelation 22:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...
2 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...
Luke 12:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Hebrews 10:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
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.
2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
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 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Philippians 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Philippians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 15:3-8 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, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. ...
Romans 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Romans 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Romans 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 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, ...
Acts 17:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
John 11:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”
John 11:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
John 11:1-57 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ...
John 6:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 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 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Luke 13:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
Luke 12:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! ...
Luke 1:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Luke 1:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Matthew 25:31 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.
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Matthew 17:14-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. ...
Daniel 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Daniel 8:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the capital, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal. I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great. As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. ...
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 72:8-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust! May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts! May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...
1 Samuel 22:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”
Joshua 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 7:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
Leviticus 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;
Genesis 46:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons.

Why is GOD lovin’ the World?

God Loved The World
 
John 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...
John 3:1-36 ESV / 6 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. ...
Psalm 5:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
John 17:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...
Psalm 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Psalm 5:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Psalm 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 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. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Revelation 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Titus 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
Galatians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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,
Romans 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Acts 14:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 13:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 3:16-17 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 3:14-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ...
John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
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 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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. ...
Amos 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

WE must be Born Again...

Be Born Again
 
John 3:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:16 ESV / 10 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 3:5 ESV / 10 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.
Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
John 3:1-36 ESV / 9 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 3:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 3:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 6 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,
Romans 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 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.
John 3:36 ESV / 6 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 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 John 5:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
1 John 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
1 John 2:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
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,
John 4:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:1-8 ESV / 5 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 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
John 1:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joel 2:28-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
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 John 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
James 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Colossians 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 4 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 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Acts 22:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
John 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
John 3:1-7 ESV / 4 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 3:1-21 ESV / 4 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. ...
Matthew 3:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. 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.”
Matthew 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
1 John 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 John 5:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 Peter 1:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Ephesians 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 8:9 ESV / 3 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 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 3:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
John 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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?”
John 3:3-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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.”
John 1:19-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” ...
John 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
Luke 7:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Mark 1:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Matthew 16:18-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 3:2-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
Isaiah 2:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 1:22-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
2 Timothy 3:10-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it ...
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.
Colossians 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Colossians 1:12-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 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. ...
Philippians 3:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
Ephesians 2:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 2:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
1 Corinthians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 9:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
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—
John 14:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 8:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

GOD commands us to WORK?

Work
 
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 735 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 509 helpful votes
 
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 ESV / 421 helpful votes
 
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 ESV / 414 helpful votes
 
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 361 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 348 helpful votes
 
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 345 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 285 helpful votes
 
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 253 helpful votes
 
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 235 helpful votes
 
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 195 helpful votes
 
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 153 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
John 6:27 ESV / 128 helpful votes
 
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Psalm 90:17 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 114 helpful votes
 
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 111 helpful votes
 
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
Let all that you do be done in love.
Galatians 6:4-5 ESV / 100 helpful votes
 
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.
Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 93 helpful votes
 
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 93 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Colossians 3:23-25 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 83 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.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 76 helpful votes
 
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 76 helpful votes
 
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Proverbs 24:30-34 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 69 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.
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
James 2:26 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
James 2:18 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
John 5:17 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
Luke 14:28 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Psalm 128:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Ecclesiastes 3:22 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?
Luke 10:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 35 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.
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
Job 1:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Genesis 1:31 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
John 17:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
Genesis 2:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
Hebrews 6:10-12 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Deuteronomy 24:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.
Ephesians 6:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,
Proverbs 10:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 23 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.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Luke 16:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
2 Timothy 2:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ...
Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Genesis 3:17-19 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Ezra 10:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”
1 Kings 6:1-38 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house. And he made for the house windows with recessed frames. He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. ...
Deuteronomy 8:1-11:32 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. ...
Titus 2:9-12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 Thessalonians 4:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
So that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
Matthew 5:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Ecclesiastes 2:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”
Exodus 35:1-35 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.” Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; ...
Genesis 25:29-34 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.) Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.” Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?” Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. ...
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
2 Thessalonians 3:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
2 Thessalonians 2:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
Colossians 4:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
2 Corinthians 8:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.
1 Corinthians 4:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Psalm 128:1-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! ...
Psalm 19:1-14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. ...
2 Kings 22:1-20 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying, “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people. And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the Lord, repairing the house ...
1 Kings 21:1-29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.” But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food. But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?” ...
Deuteronomy 29:6-13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them. We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites. Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. “You are standing today all of you before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, ...
Exodus 36:1-2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.” And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
Exodus 20:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
2 Thessalonians 3:12-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.

Requests for Prayer

Requests For Prayer
 
James 5:16 ESV / 11 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.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 8 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.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Romans 12:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
1 John 5:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
John 15:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Psalm 18:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
James 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Acts 16:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Acts 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
John 15:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Luke 6:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 5 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.”
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 4 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 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
James 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 4 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.
Matthew 6:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
1 John 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 3 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.
Romans 8:26-27 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. 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.
John 16:23-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
John 14:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luke 11:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”
Luke 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Matthew 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Psalm 66:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Psalm 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Ezra 8:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
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,
Jude 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
James 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
James 5:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
James 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
James 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
1 Timothy 2:1-4 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.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
Colossians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—
Colossians 4:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.
Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 2 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,
1 Corinthians 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Acts 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
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 2:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
John 14:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
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.
Luke 18:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 11:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
Luke 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.
Mark 14:35-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Mark 1:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Matthew 21:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Matthew 18:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
Proverbs 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Psalm 141:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
Psalm 118:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Psalm 55:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.
Psalm 34:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 5:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning. Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray. O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Psalm 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.
Job 42:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 4,101 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
James 4:11-12 ESV / 3,821 helpful votes
 
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3,683 helpful votes
 
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
James 1:19-20 ESV / 3,566 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3,241 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3,147 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 14:4 ESV / 3,052 helpful votes
 
Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 2,778 helpful votes
 
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 2,702 helpful votes
 
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 2,524 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2,469 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
2 Timothy 2:24-25 ESV / 2,447 helpful votes
 
And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 2,389 helpful votes
 
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 9:8 ESV / 2,302 helpful votes
 
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Galatians 5:15 ESV / 2,193 helpful votes
 
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2,172 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 2,090 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 2,065 helpful votes
 
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 2,063 helpful votes
 
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2,057 helpful votes
 
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 2,021 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Acts 7:51 ESV / 1,948 helpful votes
 
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1,934 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.
Matthew 7:2 ESV / 1,917 helpful votes
 
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 1,872 helpful votes
 
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 ESV / 1,867 helpful votes
 
Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 ESV / 1,847 helpful votes
 
Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Job 38:2-3 ESV / 1,831 helpful votes
 
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,787 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 14:10 ESV / 1,783 helpful votes
 
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 1,759 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 1,740 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Revelation 3:15-16 ESV / 1,733 helpful votes
 
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 1,727 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
James 2:13 ESV / 1,699 helpful votes
 
For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 1,686 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 1,658 helpful votes
 
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. ...
John 8:7 ESV / 1,616 helpful votes
 
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 1,614 helpful votes
 
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Romans 2:1 ESV / 1,595 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,582 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. ...
Romans 14:13 ESV / 1,561 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 1,560 helpful votes
 
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Proverbs 15:1-2 ESV / 1,549 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 1,538 helpful votes
 
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 1,537 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Luke 6:37-38 ESV / 1,524 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 1,514 helpful votes
 
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Proverbs 9:8-9 ESV / 1,506 helpful votes
 
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 1,495 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 1,478 helpful votes
 
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 1,466 helpful votes
 
Let all that you do be done in love.
2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 1,462 helpful votes
 
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Amos 3:3 ESV / 1,428 helpful votes
 
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?
Romans 8:1 ESV / 1,427 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 1,411 helpful votes
 
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,394 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,
2 Corinthians 10:10 ESV / 1,390 helpful votes
 
For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”
James 5:16 ESV / 1,381 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Romans 2:1-4 ESV / 1,365 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
1 Peter 2:23 ESV / 1,348 helpful votes
 
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
3 John 1:9-10 ESV / 1,317 helpful votes
 
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 1,264 helpful votes
 
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 1,263 helpful votes
 
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 1,207 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 1,194 helpful votes
 
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes
 
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Matthew 23:24 ESV / 1,046 helpful votes
 
You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 1,043 helpful votes
 
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 928 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
James 5:9 ESV / 896 helpful votes
 
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 885 helpful votes
 
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
Luke 17:3 ESV / 876 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 860 helpful votes
 
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 820 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 15:31-32 ESV / 819 helpful votes
 
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 818 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 3:16 ESV / 807 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 7:24 ESV / 806 helpful votes
 
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 802 helpful votes
 
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
1 John 1:9 ESV / 794 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 761 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 760 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 755 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 708 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Exodus 22:18 ESV / 706 helpful votes
 
“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 681 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 667 helpful votes
 
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...
Romans 12:3 ESV / 663 helpful votes
 
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Proverbs 15:31-33 ESV / 653 helpful votes
 
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 635 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Philippians 2:1-11 ESV / 627 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
Matthew 7:3-5 ESV / 613 helpful votes
 
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Proverbs 29:1 ESV / 567 helpful votes
 
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Matthew 10:8 ESV / 538 helpful votes
 
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 522 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 494 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 418 helpful votes
 
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

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Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 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.
1 Peter 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Revelation 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,
Revelation 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
1 John 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
1 Peter 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
James 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
James 1:12 ESV / 2 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.
James 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Hebrews 11:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Colossians 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Philippians 1:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 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.
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 2 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.
2 Corinthians 11:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:7-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 8:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
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 14:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 6:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. ...
Acts 5:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
Acts 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
John 16:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 15:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Luke 18:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”
Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Mark 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Mark 5:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Matthew 21:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Daniel 6:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.” Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Isaiah 48:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Proverbs 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
Psalm 126:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
Psalm 107:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
Psalm 107:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.
Psalm 97:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 84:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Psalm 66:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
Psalm 57:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
Psalm 37:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
Psalm 34:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Psalm 34:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 31:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
Psalm 30:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
Psalm 27:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
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 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Job 42:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
Job 42:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 23:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Deuteronomy 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
Deuteronomy 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.
Deuteronomy 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’
Numbers 13:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”
Numbers 7:1-89 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils, the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were listed, approached and brought their offerings before the Lord, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They brought them before the tabernacle. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.” ...
Exodus 19:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
Exodus 16:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
Genesis 3:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Takling about the Family...the Proverbs

The Family
 
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 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.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...