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Work For Your Employer
 
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Luke 10:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
James 5:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Colossians 4:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
Colossians 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
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.’”
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Malachi 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Deuteronomy 24:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.
Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Exodus 23:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Luke 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
Matthew 9:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Jeremiah 22:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,
Proverbs 21:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 6:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Exodus 20:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
Exodus 20:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
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.”
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. ...
1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
1 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
John 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Matthew 25:14-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.
Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...
Malachi 3:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 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.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
Proverbs 26:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.
Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 2 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 128:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”
Deuteronomy 25:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Leviticus 23:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
Exodus 34:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Genesis 3:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...
Genesis 1:26-30 ESV / 2 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.” 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.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

The one who makes the Money...makes the Rules.

Money Answers Everything
 
Ecclesiastes 10:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Luke 12:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Timothy 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 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.”
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Isaiah 58:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? ...
Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. ...
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.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...
Proverbs 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,
Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...
1 Kings 11:1-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ...
2 Samuel 13:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 2 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.
 

There are gifts in YOU...you might as well use them.

Gifts Are In You
 
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
James 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 7 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.”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...
Romans 12:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
Matthew 6:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
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.
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 5 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.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 4 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.
2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Romans 12:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 12:3-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ...
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.
Luke 6:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.
Matthew 7:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Proverbs 21:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
Proverbs 18:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.
Proverbs 3:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
James 1:5 ESV / 3 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.
2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 3 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.
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Corinthians 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
1 Corinthians 9:1-11:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? ...
Romans 11:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 3 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.’”
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.
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 12:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Luke 11:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 6:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?”
Luke 3:11 ESV / 3 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.”
Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Matthew 19:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 10:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
Matthew 10:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Proverbs 11:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Psalm 37:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 3 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.”
Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Exodus 35:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
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. ...
1 John 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 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 3:17 ESV / 2 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?
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 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.
James 2:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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?
Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
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.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2 Corinthians 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,
2 Corinthians 9:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 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.
2 Corinthians 8:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”
2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...
1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
1 Corinthians 12:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Corinthians 12:12-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ...
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ...
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...
1 Corinthians 9:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
1 Corinthians 9:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 8:1-12:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— ...
1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Romans 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Don’t be the Candyman...

Dont Love The World
 
1 John 2:15 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
James 4:4 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 122 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.
John 3:16 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 John 2:16 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.
James 1:27 ESV / 60 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.
John 14:27 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
1 John 5:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
1 John 2:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 49 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?
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 John 3:13 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 43 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.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 42 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,
John 16:33 ESV / 40 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 8:12 ESV / 40 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.”
1 John 4:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
John 15:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
1 John 5:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 4:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
1 John 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matthew 7:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 30 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.
John 4:1-9:41 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...
John 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
John 3:1-17:26 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
John 3:1-3 ESV / 30 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.”
John 2:1-15:27 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...
Matthew 5:1-18:35 ESV / 30 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. ...
Philippians 3:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Mark 8:36 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 1:28-29 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
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.

Who is Jesus...I’m asking for a friend.

Who Is Jesus
 
John 14:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 10:30 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
I and the Father are one.”
John 1:14 ESV / 18 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 8:58 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Mark 12:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
John 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Revelation 1:8 ESV / 8 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.”
Daniel 7:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Matthew 16:13-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Hebrews 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
Titus 2:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
John 1:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Luke 9:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
Matthew 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 4 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.
John 20:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Exodus 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
1 John 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Colossians 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Philippians 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 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.
1 Corinthians 15:24-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 3 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 14:6-7 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. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 8:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 6:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
John 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,
Isaiah 43:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
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.”
Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...
1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
John 14:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
John 1:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...
Luke 24:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
Luke 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”
Luke 1:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Matthew 28:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Matthew 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

Darkness is Light to God...He sees EVERTHING!

God Sees Everything
 
Proverbs 15:3 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Job 28:24 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Jeremiah 23:24 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 16:17 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...
Psalm 44:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Romans 11:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Psalm 147:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
Job 34:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 19 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.
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Psalm 33:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 16 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.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 15 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.
Psalm 139:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Proverbs 5:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
John 3:16 ESV / 13 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.
Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 13 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.
Job 42:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 12 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 3:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Psalm 90:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
James 1:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Acts 1:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 10 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.”
Jeremiah 23:23-24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Psalm 139:1-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...
Psalm 11:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Romans 12:2 ESV / 9 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.
John 4:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 9 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.
Hebrews 4:12-13 ESV / 8 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. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 8 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.

Love is not an excuse to Hurt people...

Love
 
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 4,316 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 16:14 ESV / 2,813 helpful votes
 
Let all that you do be done in love.
John 3:16 ESV / 2,519 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 2,446 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2,278 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2,115 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
John 15:13 ESV / 1,907 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 1,904 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 1,894 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 1,621 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 1,470 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Mark 12:29-31 ESV / 1,466 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
1 John 4:7 ESV / 1,418 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 1,399 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.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 1,284 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 1,269 helpful votes
 
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 1,220 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
John 14:15 ESV / 1,118 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 1,107 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 1,004 helpful votes
 
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 971 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 930 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.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 911 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Luke 6:35 ESV / 875 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.
Romans 12:9 ESV / 867 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 780 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.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 771 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.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 744 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 13:10 ESV / 694 helpful votes
 
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 John 3:18 ESV / 681 helpful votes
 
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 676 helpful votes
 
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 666 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.
Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 660 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 651 helpful votes
 
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
John 15:12 ESV / 640 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 611 helpful votes
 
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 567 helpful votes
 
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 551 helpful votes
 
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 544 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Mark 12:31 ESV / 526 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 506 helpful votes
 
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 491 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.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 487 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.
Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 485 helpful votes
 
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 473 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 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 469 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 467 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 465 helpful votes
 
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
1 John 4:20 ESV / 455 helpful votes
 
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 450 helpful votes
 
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
John 14:21 ESV / 448 helpful votes
 
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Psalm 86:15 ESV / 443 helpful votes
 
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 406 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 403 helpful votes
 
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
1 John 4:12 ESV / 401 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 399 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 387 helpful votes
 
The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 383 helpful votes
 
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
John 13:34 ESV / 382 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 381 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Psalm 63:3 ESV / 377 helpful votes
 
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 374 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 358 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
John 14:23 ESV / 355 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
1 John 4:21 ESV / 352 helpful votes
 
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:11 ESV / 349 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Proverbs 30:18-19 ESV / 346 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.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 343 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 338 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 337 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 337 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 333 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 332 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Genesis 29:20 ESV / 329 helpful votes
 
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Matthew 5:22 ESV / 324 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Romans 8:35 ESV / 322 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 317 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 316 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
John 15:12-13 ESV / 316 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 315 helpful votes
 
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 314 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;
Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 314 helpful votes
 
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Psalm 143:8 ESV / 313 helpful votes
 
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 310 helpful votes
 
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 302 helpful votes
 
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 302 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!
James 2:8 ESV / 294 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Song of Solomon 2:16 ESV / 288 helpful votes
 
My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
Psalm 18:1 ESV / 283 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.
Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Proverbs 5:19 ESV / 261 helpful votes
 
A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Song of Solomon 1:2 ESV / 257 helpful votes
 
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 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? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Galatians 5:13-14 ESV / 249 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 5:43-44 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 244 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 244 helpful votes
 
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Imaginary enemies...

Imaginary Enemies
 
Romans 12:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Psalm 138:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
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.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Acts 7:60 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...
Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 4 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.”
Exodus 23:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Luke 6:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...
Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
Proverbs 24:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Psalm 69:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
Psalm 35:1-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Of David. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!” Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away! ...
Revelation 20:12-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 Peter 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
1 Corinthians 4:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
Romans 12:14-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. ...
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 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 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
Luke 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Luke 6:27-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Mark 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 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. ...
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Ezekiel 23:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
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.
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 42:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.
Isaiah 8:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
Proverbs 25:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.
Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
Psalm 109:2-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Psalm 109:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise! For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. ...
Psalm 71:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together
Psalm 57:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
Psalm 55:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan, because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me. My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me. ...
Psalm 40:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me! Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
Psalm 37:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 23:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Psalm 18:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Job 31:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him
Job 31:29-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),

It is so Good to know...that you’re NOT alone.

Never Alone
 
Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
John 14:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
1 John 4:4 ESV / 7 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.
John 14:27 ESV / 7 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 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
James 4:6-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Romans 8:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 4 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 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Jude 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,
1 John 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 3 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 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 John 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Galatians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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. ...
John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 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. ...
Revelation 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
Revelation 5:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
1 John 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 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.
James 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 10:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 4:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.” ...
Hebrews 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Hebrews 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
Hebrews 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
Titus 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
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 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
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,
Colossians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ...

Do you have conviction...do you promote Hope?

Promote Hope
 
Colossians 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ...
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 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 15:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 12:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
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.
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.
Hosea 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation. I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me. ...
Psalm 122:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
Psalm 71:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
1 John 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 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 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
1 John 1:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. 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. ...
2 Peter 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, ...
1 Peter 1:13-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 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 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...
James 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Titus 2:11-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Titus 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...
Titus 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—
Titus 1:3-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, ...
Titus 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Timothy 6:11-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
Colossians 1:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
Ephesians 4:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:16-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ...
Galatians 5:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.