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Praising GOD with our lives...

Praise The Lord
 
Psalm 150:6 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...
Psalm 117:1-2 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
James 5:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
Isaiah 25:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
Psalm 71:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.
Psalm 34:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalm 103:2-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Psalm 63:3-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 103:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
Psalm 42:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
Isaiah 12:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Psalm 145:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Psalm 145:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
Psalm 118:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.
Psalm 108:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.
Psalm 105:1 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!
Psalm 66:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.
Acts 16:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
Psalm 9:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
Revelation 21:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
Revelation 5:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 14 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 1:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 119:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Psalm 56:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
Mark 16:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Romans 14:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
Acts 16:25-26 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.
Acts 2:46-47 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Psalm 148:1-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created. ...
Psalm 109:30 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Psalm 150:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!
Psalm 150:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!
Psalm 147:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
Psalm 35:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
Psalm 7:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
Job 1:20-21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 10 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.
Daniel 4:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Daniel 2:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”
Psalm 113:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Revelation 5:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
James 3:10-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
Philippians 4:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.
Ephesians 1:1-3:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ...
Romans 14:11-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
John 3:16 ESV / 9 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 12:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Psalm 139:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 108:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
Psalm 106:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Psalm 100:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
Psalm 99:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he!
Psalm 71:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!
Psalm 66:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
Psalm 63:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
Psalm 42:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 22:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
Exodus 15:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Revelation 19:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Colossians 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 Corinthians 14:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
Acts 2:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
Luke 19:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,
Psalm 149:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
Psalm 95:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. ...
John 4:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
Psalm 69:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Jude 1:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 6 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.
Acts 16:1-25:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...
Luke 2:1-20:47 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. ...
Isaiah 43:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
Psalm 111:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Psalm 71:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.
Deuteronomy 3:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
‘O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
John 15:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 4:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Ezekiel 13:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Psalm 150:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
Psalm 118:1-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...
Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
James 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Instructions in this walk...

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.
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
John 15:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
Revelation 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Revelation 8:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,
Revelation 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.
Revelation 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Revelation 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.
Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Jude 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
1 John 3:2 ESV / 2 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 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 12:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
1 Timothy 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,
1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Corinthians 6:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
Romans 14:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
Acts 7:60 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
John 21:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
John 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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 10:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 9:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
John 5:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Luke 22:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luke 6:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Mark 15:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
Mark 1:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Matthew 19:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 9:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Ezekiel 22:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
Jeremiah 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear 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. ...
Exodus 23:5 ESV / 2 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.
Exodus 23:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.
 

Growing in Faith

Grow In Faith
 
Romans 10:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
1 John 5:4 ESV / 7 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.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
1 Timothy 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.
Matthew 17:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Hebrews 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
2 Timothy 1:6 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,
2 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
Philippians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 2 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.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
2 Corinthians 4:7-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 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.
Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...
Acts 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
John 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Luke 8:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.
Mark 4:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”
Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...
Psalm 37:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
1 John 2:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Jesus is anointed by a sinful woman...

Forgiven Of Much
 
Mark 11:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Luke 6:37 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Matthew 6:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Luke 7:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
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.
Matthew 18:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Hebrews 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
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 17:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Luke 6:36-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Mark 3:22-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. ...
Matthew 26:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Psalm 86:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
1 John 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.
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.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
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 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Hebrews 12:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Colossians 1:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 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. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...
Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
Acts 10:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Acts 7:59-60 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 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.
Acts 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
John 20:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
John 20:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
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 23:33-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Luke 17:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Luke 11:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”
Luke 6:27-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Mark 11:25-27 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.” And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,
Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Mark 3:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—
Matthew 18:23-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ...
Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...
Matthew 18:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...
Matthew 16:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 7:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Matthew 6:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 6:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:21-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Jeremiah 31:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Psalm 32:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalm 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Numbers 15:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
Leviticus 19:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.

The poor matters to GOD...

Good News For The Poor
 
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Luke 4:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 10 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 / 10 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
Luke 12:33 ESV / 9 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.
Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
James 2:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
James 1:27 ESV / 8 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.
Luke 7:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.
Matthew 5:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Luke 14:12-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Matthew 19:21 ESV / 7 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.”
Jeremiah 22:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.
Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
Psalm 12:5 ESV / 7 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.”
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Isaiah 29:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Psalm 140:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
Deuteronomy 24:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You shall not oppress a hired worker 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.
Deuteronomy 15:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,
Deuteronomy 10:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
Exodus 23:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
Exodus 23:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Galatians 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Acts 24:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Luke 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Luke 14:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
Mark 14:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.
Ezekiel 22:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.
Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.
Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 17:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Psalm 146:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
Psalm 109:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Psalm 82:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Psalm 72:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Psalm 40:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!
Psalm 35:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”
1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.
Deuteronomy 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—
Deuteronomy 14:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
Leviticus 23:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 22:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 4 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? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 4 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?
James 2:2-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Honor widows who are truly widows.
Acts 10:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
Acts 9:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Matthew 25:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
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.
Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Jeremiah 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
Isaiah 58:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 14:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay.
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Psalm 107:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.
Psalm 72:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.
Psalm 68:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.
Psalm 68:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 34:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.
Psalm 9:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.
Job 30:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 29:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 24:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,
Deuteronomy 15:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
Leviticus 25:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 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.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 3 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.
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 13:3 ESV / 3 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.
Romans 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.
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 12:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
John 12:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
Luke 16:19-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Luke 6:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 4:16-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. ...
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.”
Mark 12:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
Matthew 26:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.

Protect yourself...(let GOD tell you how)

Protect Yourself
 
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Romans 3:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
2 Peter 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; ...
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Romans 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by 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.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Luke 24:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Mark 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’
Mark 10:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ...
Matthew 24:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...
Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Pick up your cross...and start walking!

Pick Up Your Cross
 
Luke 9:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Luke 14:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 16:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 14 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.
1 John 3:1-3 ESV / 12 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. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Matthew 16:24-25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
John 8:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
Luke 9:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
Matthew 11:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
John 15:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Matthew 16:21-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ...
Matthew 10:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Colossians 3:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Romans 6:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
John 6:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
Mark 8:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
John 1:14 ESV / 5 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.
Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Matthew 11:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
1 Peter 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
Colossians 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Romans 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
John 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Mark 8:34-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
Mark 8:27-38 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. ...
Matthew 16:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 16:21-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ...
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Deuteronomy 33:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’

It’s better to serve than to be served...

Being A Servant
 
John 12:26 ESV / 758 helpful votes
 
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 643 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.
Mark 10:45 ESV / 614 helpful votes
 
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mark 10:42-45 ESV / 482 helpful votes
 
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
John 13:16 ESV / 396 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 373 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
1 Corinthians 4:1-2 ESV / 330 helpful votes
 
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
Matthew 25:21 ESV / 321 helpful votes
 
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Mark 9:35 ESV / 318 helpful votes
 
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 299 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.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 293 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Matthew 20:26 ESV / 286 helpful votes
 
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,
Philippians 2:5-7 ESV / 240 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Matthew 23:11 ESV / 227 helpful votes
 
The greatest among you shall be your servant.
Luke 14:23 ESV / 216 helpful votes
 
And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 215 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.
Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 198 helpful votes
 
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Galatians 1:10 ESV / 182 helpful votes
 
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 175 helpful votes
 
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Luke 22:27 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.
Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
Philippians 2:5 ESV / 141 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Philippians 2:7 ESV / 126 helpful votes
 
But emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
John 15:15 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 13:12-15 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 118 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Matthew 20:28 ESV / 115 helpful votes
 
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Psalm 119:125 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies!
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 102 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,
Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 102 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
John 13:12-17 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ...
John 4:34 ESV / 96 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 95 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.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 93 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.
John 3:30 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Luke 12:41-48 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?” And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, ...
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 89 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.
John 13:1-38 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ...
John 13:1 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Romans 1:1 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...
Luke 22:24-30 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. “You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, ...
Philippians 2:6-7 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 84 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Matthew 25:23 ESV / 84 helpful votes
 
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
Matthew 20:20-28 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.” And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers. ...
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...
Galatians 6:10 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 75 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.
Matthew 12:18 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
John 13:13-17 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
James 4:10 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 1:12 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 72 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.
Romans 6:4 ESV / 71 helpful votes
 
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 71 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.”
2 Peter 1:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Matthew 23:11-12 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
1 Corinthians 3:5 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
John 13:3-5 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 68 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,
Philippians 1:4 ESV / 68 helpful votes
 
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
Philippians 1:27 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
Luke 17:7-10 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
“Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”
Galatians 5:13-15 ESV / 65 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.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Philippians 2:8 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Philippians 2:9-11 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:3-8 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ...
Mark 14:3-9 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. ...
Matthew 26:39 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
Romans 6:23 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 18:33-37 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Matthew 28:18 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Luke 10:19 ESV / 55 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.
Acts 3:26 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
Isaiah 42:1-4 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
1 Corinthians 4:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
John 6:38 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...
1 Corinthians 7:22 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.
John 17:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
John 13:1-17 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ...
Matthew 20:27-28 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
And whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Matthew 24:45 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
Luke 22:42 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Isaiah 52:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
John 5:30 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

How do we conquer evil?

Conquer Evil
 
Romans 12:19 ESV / 6 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.”
Revelation 12:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Romans 12:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Deuteronomy 32:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’
1 John 4:4 ESV / 3 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.
1 John 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
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 Peter 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 3 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. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...
2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Exodus 20:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”
Revelation 22:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...
Revelation 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...
Revelation 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
Revelation 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Revelation 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Revelation 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
Jude 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
3 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
3 John 1:9-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God. Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
3 John 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.
3 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,
3 John 1:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, ...
2 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
2 John 1:8-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 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.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.
1 Peter 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
1 Peter 2:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
James 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
James 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
James 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
James 3:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
James 3:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
James 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
James 1:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
2 Timothy 3:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Timothy 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
1 Timothy 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
1 Timothy 5:17-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.” Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
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.
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 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...
Colossians 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 6:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Galatians 6:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
2 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. ...
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Corinthians 2:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. ...
1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
1 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 5:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
1 Corinthians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:10-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
1 Corinthians 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Romans 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...
Romans 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Romans 12:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Romans 12:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 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.
Romans 11:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. ...
Romans 7:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

God remembers those enslaved.

Slaves
 
Colossians 4:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Exodus 21:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 24 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.
Philemon 1:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
No longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
Colossians 3:22-25 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, 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. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
John 8:34 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants 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.
Colossians 3:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, 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.
Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Bondservants 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.
Titus 2:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 16 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.
Leviticus 25:44-46 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
Exodus 21:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
1 Timothy 6:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
Luke 12:47-48 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Job 31:13-15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, 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 bondservants 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 bondservant or is free. 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.
1 Corinthians 7:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Galatians 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Luke 4:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Exodus 21:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, 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 bondservants 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 bondservant or is free.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Romans 8:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Exodus 21:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Exodus 21:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Deuteronomy 24:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 15:12-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
Deuteronomy 5:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
Exodus 21:26-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.
Exodus 21:20-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ...
Genesis 9:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
He said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Luke 12:43-48 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. ...
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 7 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.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Deuteronomy 23:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.
Deuteronomy 23:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.
Exodus 21:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Exodus 21:2-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
Galatians 3:28-29 ESV / 6 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. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Romans 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Romans 6:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 1:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Acts 17:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Luke 7:1-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 10:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
Deuteronomy 15:16-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same. It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.
Leviticus 25:38-46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers. For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. ...
Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ...
Exodus 21:18-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ...
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Exodus 3:1-15:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ...
Genesis 15:13-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Genesis 11:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ...
Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. ...
Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, 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.
John 15:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 8:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Leviticus 25:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
Exodus 21:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Colossians 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Ephesians 6:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Ephesians 6:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 4 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. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Galatians 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
1 Corinthians 7:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.
1 Corinthians 7:21-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.
Luke 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
No servant 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.”
Luke 12:46-47 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
Matthew 20:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,
Malachi 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Jeremiah 34:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,
Proverbs 30:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
Deuteronomy 15:12-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, ...
Deuteronomy 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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 or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
Exodus 22:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus 21:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
Exodus 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Titus 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.