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Prejudice
 
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 463 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.
Titus 1:12-13 ESV / 268 helpful votes
 
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
James 2:1-26 ESV / 225 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 175 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 118 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.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 84 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.
Colossians 3:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 73 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 10:34 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
Mark 12:31 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
John 7:24 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
John 17:11 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Romans 2:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
For God shows no partiality.
Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Romans 10:12-13 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Acts 17:26 ESV / 28 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,
John 13:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Proverbs 24:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
Galatians 2:11-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
Romans 14:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Micah 6:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Deuteronomy 10:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 John 2:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Romans 6:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Acts 10:28 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
Mark 7:25-30 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.” And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.” ...
Matthew 15:22-28 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” ...
Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 11:27 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.
Exodus 22:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 16 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 14:1-23 ESV / 16 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. ...
Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.
Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 16 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.
Revelation 5:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,
James 2:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
1 Timothy 5:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
John 4:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 1:46 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Luke 18:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...
Matthew 10:5-6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Isaiah 2:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Nehemiah 13:23-30 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?” ...
Revelation 7:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Romans 12:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Romans 10:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
John 18:36 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
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.”
Matthew 5:46-47 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Daniel 5:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Nehemiah 13:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.
Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
James 2:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Colossians 2:10-19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. ...
Ephesians 3:14-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 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, ...
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Amos 5:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Proverbs 10:14-24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near. A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin. The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin. Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray. The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool. ...
Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 John 5:1-2 John 1:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ...
Colossians 3:8-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, ...
Ephesians 4:17-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, ...
Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
Galatians 1:8-3:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. ...
Romans 9:14-10:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. ...
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 7:17-8:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it. ...
Luke 20:41-47 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But he said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is David's son? For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.’ David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?” And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, ...
Luke 6:20-7:47 ESV / 8 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. “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. ...
Lamentations 4:4-5:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them. Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps. For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her. Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire. Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood. ...
Proverbs 27:11-28:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress. Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; ...
Proverbs 25:6-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great, for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame? Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret, lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end. ...
Job 5:3-6:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. ...
Judges 4:1-5:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. ...
Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ...
Numbers 12:1-16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. ...
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 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,
James 4:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 2:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Galatians 6:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Tell your friends how good of a Friend they are...it means a lot.

Friendship
 
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 1,983 helpful votes
 
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
John 15:13 ESV / 1,377 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 1,359 helpful votes
 
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 1,339 helpful votes
 
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 1,307 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 1,041 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 982 helpful votes
 
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 789 helpful votes
 
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 656 helpful votes
 
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Job 6:14 ESV / 604 helpful votes
 
“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 525 helpful votes
 
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 515 helpful votes
 
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 467 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV / 461 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 449 helpful votes
 
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 447 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 406 helpful votes
 
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 405 helpful votes
 
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 363 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
James 4:4 ESV / 353 helpful votes
 
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Romans 1:12 ESV / 348 helpful votes
 
That is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 334 helpful votes
 
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
John 15:12-14 ESV / 306 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Proverbs 22:24-27 ESV / 283 helpful votes
 
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
1 John 4:7 ESV / 271 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 252 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
John 15:12-15 ESV / 247 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. 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.
Job 2:11 ESV / 202 helpful votes
 
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
John 15:15 ESV / 200 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.
Psalm 41:9 ESV / 200 helpful votes
 
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
1 Samuel 18:1-3 ESV / 187 helpful votes
 
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 186 helpful votes
 
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 184 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Proverbs 20:6 ESV / 176 helpful votes
 
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
Psalm 55:12-14 ESV / 170 helpful votes
 
For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.
Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 159 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
1 Samuel 22:23 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”
James 2:23 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
Ruth 1:17 ESV / 146 helpful votes
 
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 141 helpful votes
 
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 11:13 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 133 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Psalm 133:1 ESV / 133 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
James 4:8 ESV / 131 helpful votes
 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 130 helpful votes
 
A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
Job 2:11-13 ESV / 130 helpful votes
 
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Romans 5:10 ESV / 121 helpful votes
 
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Romans 12:10-11 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
John 15:13-15 ESV / 118 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. 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.
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Exodus 33:11 ESV / 116 helpful votes
 
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Romans 12:15 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Amos 3:3 ESV / 111 helpful votes
 
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 109 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.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Samuel 10:2 ESV / 104 helpful votes
 
And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.
Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 102 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Philippians 1:3-4 ESV / 100 helpful votes
 
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
1 Samuel 18:1 ESV / 100 helpful votes
 
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Proverbs 25:17 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.
1 John 4:21 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Job 19:13-22 ESV / 96 helpful votes
 
“He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. ...
2 Samuel 15:32-37 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head. David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me. But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.” ...
Proverbs 14:6-7 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
1 Samuel 20:17 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Ruth 1:16 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
1 Samuel 20:42 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
Psalm 73:25 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Psalm 55:13 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
1 John 2:6 ESV / 68 helpful votes
 
Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
Micah 7:5 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 65 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 ...
Job 16:20 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
Job 29:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
As I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
2 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
John 3:16 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 Timothy 1:2-4 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
1 Samuel 18:1-4 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Regardless of what you’ve done...Your Life is still meaningful.

Your Life Is Meaningful
 
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 14:6 ESV / 4 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 6:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 Peter 3:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 2 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 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 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 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
John 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
John 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Psalm 121:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 2 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.
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.

A ”NO” answer is only for today...”NO” is not forever...

Hope Deferred
 
Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Romans 15:13 ESV / 7 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.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Romans 8:24-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Hebrews 6:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
Titus 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Romans 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 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.
1 Timothy 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Galatians 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
Psalm 147:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 39:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
Hebrews 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Titus 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
Colossians 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
2 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
Acts 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
John 15:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’
Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Psalm 33:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
Psalm 31:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
Exodus 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
1 John 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 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,
James 5:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Hebrews 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
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,
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
1 Corinthians 15:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
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 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Romans 12:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
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 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 11:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 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 9:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Luke 21:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Luke 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
Luke 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.”
Mark 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Mark 5:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
Mark 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Matthew 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 8:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”
Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Hosea 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Jeremiah 30:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

YOU CAN’T JUDGE ME!!! Don’t even try...

Be Careful When You Judge People
 
Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 4 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.
Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 4 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. ...
Matthew 7:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Romans 2:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
John 7:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
Luke 6:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 3 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.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
James 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
James 4:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
James 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
James 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Titus 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 3:14-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Galatians 6:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load. ...
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
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.
1 Corinthians 6:2 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?
1 Corinthians 6:1-6 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? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...
1 Corinthians 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Romans 14:1-13 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 12:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Romans 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
John 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
John 8:3-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” ...
John 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 6:37-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 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.” He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. 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? ...
Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Matthew 7:1-6 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. ...
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Ezekiel 3:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
Proverbs 31:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Get what you NEED from the LORD...and don’t let anyone take it from you...

Get What You Need From God
 
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
James 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
1 John 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 3 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.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 136:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 2 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.
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
Ephesians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
John 16:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 15:7 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 14:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 14:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Mark 11:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Matthew 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 145:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Psalm 86:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 50:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
Psalm 37:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 36:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 2 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.
Psalm 18:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 33:27 ESV / 2 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.
Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

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1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Joel 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
1 John 5:11-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
James 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Galatians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
John 20:10-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the disciples went back to their homes. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. ...
John 16:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ...
Luke 13:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Luke 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
Luke 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Mark 9:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”
Mark 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 5:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Matthew 5:38-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Proverbs 24:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.”
Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Deuteronomy 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Exodus 20:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Without LOVE we’re doing NOTHING but making noise...

Without Love
 
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 John 4:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
John 13:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 4:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Mark 12:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
1 John 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
James 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 5 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.
John 14:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
John 14:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Luke 10:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 4 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.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 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 24:67 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
1 John 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
James 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 3 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. ...
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 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.
Romans 13:9 ESV / 3 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 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 17:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 16:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
John 14:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Matthew 19:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Daniel 9:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 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. ...
Ecclesiastes 9:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Psalm 87:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah
Psalm 52:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
Deuteronomy 10:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Titus 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
1 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—
1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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,
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 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,
Acts 16:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
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 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 5:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

GOD knows what You’re Going through...yep He does.

God Knows What Youre Going Through
 
Romans 8:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
John 16:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
James 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Psalm 46:1 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.
1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 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.
James 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 8:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Nahum 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 34:17-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 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. ...
Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
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 Peter 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Philippians 4:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 7:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
Romans 12:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 8:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 3 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 54:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Psalm 50:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 9:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Genesis 50:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ...
2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
1 Peter 5:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Acts 27:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. ...
Acts 20:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;
 

What is Faith anyway...really?!

Faith Is
 
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Romans 10:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
James 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Galatians 2:16 ESV / 6 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.
John 5:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
James 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Romans 3:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
John 6:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
John 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
John 8:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Luke 13:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Jude 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
1 John 5:4 ESV / 3 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.
James 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
James 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
James 1:6-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Hebrews 11:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 3 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,
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 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.