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Proverbs of a GOOD Marriage

Proverbs Of A Good Marriage
 
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Mark 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
1 Peter 3:1-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Deuteronomy 24:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 4 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 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.
Colossians 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Proverbs 30:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Psalm 85:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
2 Chronicles 24:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 John 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Ephesians 5:25-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3 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.
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Romans 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 15:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Mark 10:8-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.
Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Leviticus 21:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”
Exodus 22:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 4:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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.
James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
James 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 2:3-7 ESV / 2 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. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:21-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:21-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, ...
Ephesians 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
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.
1 Corinthians 14:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?
1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.
1 Corinthians 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 7:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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Give Your Problems To God
 
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 5 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.
1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 4 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 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Psalm 37:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 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.
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 2 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. ...
1 John 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
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,
Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
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 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 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
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.
1 Corinthians 3:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. ...
Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
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 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
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.
Luke 2:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Matthew 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Isaiah 40:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...
Isaiah 40:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Proverbs 23:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 103:2-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Psalm 37:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 9:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psalm 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
2 Samuel 17:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,
Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
Deuteronomy 25:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.
Exodus 33:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Exodus 33:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.
Exodus 33:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.
Exodus 22:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution. “If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man's house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. ...
Genesis 25:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. ...
Genesis 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

There’s a secret to being a Success in everything that YOU do...

Be A Success
 
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 14 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.
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 11 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.
Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
1 Kings 2:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 118:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success!
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 3:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
Nehemiah 1:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.
Joshua 1:7-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
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 4:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 4 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.
Luke 16:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
1 Samuel 18:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
3 John 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
James 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 3 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.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
John 16:33 ESV / 3 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 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 16:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Luke 6:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 6:25-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...
Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 35:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...
Nehemiah 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 26:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
Deuteronomy 29:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.
Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 2:7 ESV / 3 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.”’
Genesis 39:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.
Genesis 39:2-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
Genesis 24:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.
Revelation 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in 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.
Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 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 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 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 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
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 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Luke 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 12:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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 6:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 48:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Proverbs 24:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 8:17-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
Proverbs 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 2:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Psalm 144:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!
Psalm 118:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...
Psalm 90:17 ESV / 2 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!
Psalm 84:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 37:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.

Does Prayer Work?

Pray
 
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 110 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 102 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 92 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.
James 5:16 ESV / 72 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.
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 61 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,
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 39 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.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
James 5:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
James 4:3 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
James 5:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
James 1:5 ESV / 22 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.
John 15:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Matthew 18:18-20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 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.”
James 5:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
John 16:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 11 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.
Luke 11:5-13 ESV / 11 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. 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. ...
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 10 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.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...
James 4:2 ESV / 9 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.
Matthew 6:5-6 ESV / 9 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.
Matthew 20:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And stopping, Jesus called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”
James 5:13-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 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. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ...
Acts 22:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 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.
Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...
James 5:12 ESV / 5 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.
Matthew 25:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’
1 John 5:16 ESV / 4 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 5:14 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.
James 5:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 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.
1 Corinthians 14:15 ESV / 4 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 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 4 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.
John 14:13-15 ESV / 4 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.
Luke 22:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Matthew 9:6-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
Psalm 122:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
Ezra 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
That they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
1 Samuel 7:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
Genesis 20:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
Daniel 3:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. ...
Philippians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
Matthew 25:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

Doing Good Deeds for those in Need...

Doing Good Deeds
 
Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 861 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 673 helpful votes
 
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 433 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.
James 4:17 ESV / 407 helpful votes
 
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James 2:26 ESV / 298 helpful votes
 
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 253 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 242 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Titus 2:7-9 ESV / 228 helpful votes
 
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
Philippians 2:13 ESV / 223 helpful votes
 
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 213 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.
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 205 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.
Galatians 5:19-26 ESV / 173 helpful votes
 
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. ...
Titus 3:14 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
James 1:27 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Micah 6:8 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 152 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Matthew 6:1 ESV / 137 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 135 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 132 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. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
James 2:14-17 ESV / 131 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
3 John 1:11 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
James 2:24 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
John 3:16 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “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. ...
1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
Psalm 37:3 ESV / 104 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 102 helpful votes
 
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 94 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.
Matthew 5:42 ESV / 93 helpful votes
 
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Galatians 6:10 ESV / 90 helpful votes
 
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Luke 6:35 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...
John 5:28-29 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
James 2:17 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Matthew 6:3 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
Romans 4:4-5 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Matthew 16:27 ESV / 69 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.
Galatians 2:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Romans 11:6 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
Revelation 22:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Romans 6:23 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 56 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,
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Romans 3:28 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 54 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. ...
Luke 3:11 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Psalm 34:13-14 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Matthew 25:34-40 ESV / 52 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. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? ...
2 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 51 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 2:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
He will render to each one according to his works:
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 51 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. ...
1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 50 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,
1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 50 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.
James 2:14-26 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 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. ...
Matthew 6:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 47 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 John 1:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 47 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 23:5 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
Romans 16:19 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
Mark 16:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
James 3:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
Matthew 25:40 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Romans 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Acts 9:36 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
Galatians 5:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 43 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.
Matthew 6:5 ESV / 42 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.

BEEEEEEEEEE STRONG!

Be Strong
 
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Ephesians 6:10-18 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 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. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ...
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 21 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.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 4:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Proverbs 28:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
John 14:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Joshua 23:9-11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you. Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
1 John 2:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
Isaiah 32:17-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Psalm 89:13-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
1 Samuel 17:45-46 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
Deuteronomy 28:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Hebrews 12:5-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...
Romans 8:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 14:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 17:5-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
Psalm 32:3-7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him. You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
Psalm 24:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!
Nehemiah 6:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”
Nehemiah 4:16-23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.” ...
Nehemiah 4:3-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. ...
2 Chronicles 20:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.
2 Samuel 10:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”
1 Samuel 17:34-35 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
Joshua 1:5-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Exodus 15:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1 John 5:3-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 2:27-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him. And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Thessalonians 5:11-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
Ephesians 6:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians 1:25-30 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. ...
Romans 10:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 8:6-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 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.
Romans 6:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 4:18-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
John 3:16 ESV / 8 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 22:31-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
Amos 5:14-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said. Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Isaiah 52:9-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
Isaiah 35:1-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God. Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.” Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; ...
Ecclesiastes 9:11 ESV / 8 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.
Proverbs 29:25-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe. Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that a man gets justice.
Proverbs 21:30-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord. The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
Proverbs 3:25-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 3:24-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 3:1-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
Proverbs 1:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”
Psalm 119:5-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Psalm 118:5-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
Psalm 105:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
Psalm 37:25-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing. Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever. For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever. ...
Psalm 3:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah
Hebrews 12:5-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...
1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
Acts 9:26-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.
Proverbs 3:1-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
Deuteronomy 28:1-14 ESV / 7 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. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...
Galatians 1:9-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Acts 14:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Acts 4:12-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
James 1:12 ESV / 4 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.
Hebrews 12:1-3 ESV / 4 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:14-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. Rejoice always,
Romans 1:16-17 ESV / 4 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. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Acts 20:35 ESV / 4 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.’”
Acts 13:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

It’s Hard to Wait on the Lord...in days like these.

Wait On The Lord
 
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 27:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Psalm 37:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Micah 7:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Psalm 27:13-14 ESV / 15 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!
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Hosea 12:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
Isaiah 64:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Psalm 130:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Psalm 130:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Psalm 27:1-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. ...
Psalm 25:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
Isaiah 25:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
Psalm 33:18-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
Psalm 27:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
Psalm 25:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Acts 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Isaiah 49:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”
Isaiah 26:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 106:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
Psalm 62:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Psalm 37:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.
Psalm 37:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
Psalm 25:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 3 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.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 8:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 39:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Revelation 18:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
Hebrews 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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.
Acts 13:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
John 12:1-50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” ...
John 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
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 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 18:13 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!’
Mark 14:1-72 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. ...
Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...
Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
2 Kings 22:1-20 ESV / 2 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 Samuel 3:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!” and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down. ...

Call the Lord while you can find Him...

Call On The Lord
 
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Romans 10:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 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.
Zephaniah 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord.
Joel 2:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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.
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Psalm 120:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me.
Psalm 50:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 3 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.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 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.
1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Acts 22:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
Acts 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
Acts 2:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
John 16:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
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 12:48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
John 3:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Genesis 12:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Jude 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ...
1 John 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
1 John 5:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.
1 John 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
1 John 1:5-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 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. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ...
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 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.
Titus 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
2 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.
2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ...
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 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Ephesians 5:1-6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...
Ephesians 2:1-22 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— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...

LORD...I want to do it MY WAY!

I Am The Way
 
John 14:6 ESV / 81 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.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 14:1-31 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...
John 11:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
John 13:1-38 ESV / 10 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. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ...
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 8:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 1:14 ESV / 9 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.
Ephesians 2:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Hebrews 10:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
By the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
John 15:1-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
John 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
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. ...
1 John 5:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Hebrews 9:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
John 14:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 10:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And you know the way to where I am going.”
John 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
John 14:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
John 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I and the Father are one.”
John 8:58 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
John 6:1-71 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ...
John 3:36 ESV / 4 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 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Revelation 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
1 John 4:1 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.
1 John 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Hebrews 7:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Romans 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
John 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
John 14:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
John 14:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
John 14:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...
John 11:25-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 8:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Luke 6:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Matthew 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 11:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Joshua 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
 

Bring back the Wanderers...

Bring The Sinner Back
 
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 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 4 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.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 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 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
Luke 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Psalm 32:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Revelation 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 3:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 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.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
James 5:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Titus 3:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
2 Timothy 2:24-26 ESV / 2 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, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
1 Timothy 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Galatians 6:1-2 ESV / 2 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. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
1 Corinthians 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Romans 8:18-27 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. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ...
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.
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Luke 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Luke 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 18:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Matthew 18:15-20 ESV / 2 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. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 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 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...
Matthew 13:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 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.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Proverbs 11:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 2 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.
Joshua 7:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel. Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” So about 3,000 men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water. ...
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.