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The Wrong Type of Wealth...

The Wrong Type Of Wealth
 
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
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 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Acts 2:44-45 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 16:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 11:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
1 John 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. ...
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
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.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
Romans 13:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
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 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.
Acts 20:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.
Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
Luke 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Luke 14:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke 12:16-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ ...
Luke 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
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 10:23-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Matthew 13:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Matthew 6:31-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 6:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Jeremiah 5:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her. Though they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely. O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds. ...
Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Proverbs 23:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Proverbs 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

Opening Your Mouth can ruin EVERYTHING...be careful.

Opening Your Mouth Can Ruin Everything
 
Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 13:1-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...
Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 12:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...
Psalm 141:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 5 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.
Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 4 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.”
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
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.
Jeremiah 5:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her. Though they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely. O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds. ...
Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...
Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
Proverbs 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Psalm 34:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 19:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
1 Peter 3:10 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;
1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 12:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
Ezekiel 18:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Isaiah 50:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...
Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Proverbs 25:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable. Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. ...
Proverbs 20:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
Proverbs 15:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!
Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 10:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.
Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...
Psalm 146:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Psalm 39:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
 

Using Wise words will get you a Meal...

Wise Words
 
James 1:5 ESV / 5 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.
Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
James 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Proverbs 20:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
Proverbs 20:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.
Proverbs 20:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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 foreigners.
Proverbs 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs 20:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life. It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing. The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. ...
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...
Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
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. ...
Acts 23:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Acts 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
Acts 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Acts 7:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Matthew 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,
Matthew 10:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Matthew 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Proverbs 21:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin. The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. ...
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Psalm 119:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Wise Children...

Wise Children
 
Acts 17:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Acts 13:14-14:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.” So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. ...
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
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. ...
Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...
Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...
Proverbs 24:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, ...
Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. ...
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...
2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Is it Okay...to Lie?

Lying
 
Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 2,088 helpful votes
 
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 2,032 helpful votes
 
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 1,720 helpful votes
 
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
Psalm 101:7 ESV / 1,383 helpful votes
 
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.
Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 1,133 helpful votes
 
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 1,079 helpful votes
 
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.
Luke 8:17 ESV / 887 helpful votes
 
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
John 8:44 ESV / 752 helpful votes
 
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Exodus 20:16 ESV / 712 helpful votes
 
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 674 helpful votes
 
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
1 John 2:4 ESV / 656 helpful votes
 
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 593 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 576 helpful votes
 
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 509 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Leviticus 19:11 ESV / 479 helpful votes
 
“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.
Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 459 helpful votes
 
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 403 helpful votes
 
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 400 helpful votes
 
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 396 helpful votes
 
A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
Psalm 58:3 ESV / 363 helpful votes
 
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
James 3:14 ESV / 355 helpful votes
 
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
John 8:32 ESV / 327 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Proverbs 26:18-19 ESV / 318 helpful votes
 
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”
Colossians 3:9 ESV / 317 helpful votes
 
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 317 helpful votes
 
The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 313 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.
Psalm 109:2 ESV / 313 helpful votes
 
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.
John 8:43-47 ESV / 293 helpful votes
 
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
Proverbs 26:28 ESV / 283 helpful votes
 
A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 275 helpful votes
 
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Psalm 34:13 ESV / 273 helpful votes
 
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
James 1:26 ESV / 270 helpful votes
 
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Living as Children of Light...not easy.

Children Of Light
 
Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 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.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 5 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.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
John 8:12 ESV / 4 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.”
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Ephesians 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 3 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 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
1 John 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1 John 1:5-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
1 Timothy 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
Colossians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Philippians 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
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.
Ephesians 5:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.
Ephesians 5:8-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. ...
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...
Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
Ephesians 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,
Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ...
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 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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—
Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
Romans 12:1 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.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
Acts 26:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 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 15:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 12:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
John 10:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
John 8:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 3:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

When we are fully grown...

Fully Grown
 
James 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
James 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 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.
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 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 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
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. ...
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
1 John 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

There is only Christ...that‘s it.

Only Christ
 
Acts 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 14:6 ESV / 5 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.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Revelation 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
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.
1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 3 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 7:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...
Romans 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Acts 10:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Luke 16:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Revelation 22:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
Revelation 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
1 John 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
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.
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.
Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? ...
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Colossians 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
Philippians 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Ephesians 1:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Galatians 3:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Galatians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
2 Corinthians 11:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
1 Corinthians 16:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1 Corinthians 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 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 10:9-10 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. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 8:1-2 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.
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 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 6:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” ...

Unity...unity!

Unity
 
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 1,085 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 1,031 helpful votes
 
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 901 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 693 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Psalm 133:1 ESV / 613 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 559 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 509 helpful votes
 
Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:1-6 ESV / 473 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Romans 12:4-5 ESV / 451 helpful votes
 
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 15:6 ESV / 385 helpful votes
 
That together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 12:16 ESV / 361 helpful votes
 
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Philippians 1:27 ESV / 347 helpful votes
 
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
Romans 15:5 ESV / 309 helpful votes
 
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Acts 4:32 ESV / 304 helpful votes
 
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
Romans 14:19 ESV / 299 helpful votes
 
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
John 17:23 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 243 helpful votes
 
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 239 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.
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 220 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.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Psalm 133:1-3 ESV / 184 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
John 17:11-23 ESV / 178 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. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. ...
John 17:21 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Romans 15:5-7 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 149 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.
Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Amos 3:3 ESV / 134 helpful votes
 
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
2 Chronicles 30:12 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.
Matthew 23:8 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.
John 13:35 ESV / 121 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 118 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 4:1-32 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 103 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 17:11 ESV / 100 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 12:10 ESV / 96 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 94 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 John 4:12 ESV / 92 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 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
1 Corinthians 1:10-13 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
1 John 4:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 82 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Philippians 2:1-8 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
John 17:21-23 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Corinthians 12:26 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Romans 12:18 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 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. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Philippians 2:1-3 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
Romans 12:5 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Titus 3:10-11 ESV / 68 helpful votes
 
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
1 John 4:20 ESV / 67 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.
Acts 20:28 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. ...
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 64 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.
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 62 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.
Philippians 4:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.
Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 17:1-26 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...
Galatians 3:26-28 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 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.
Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...
Colossians 3:11 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
1 Corinthians 12:25 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
John 17:21-26 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ...
John 3:16 ESV / 54 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.
Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ...
Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 53 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— ...
Ephesians 1:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:10-12 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Colossians 3:13-14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 51 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.
Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 49 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. ...
John 17:20 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Galatians 3:26-29 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Acts 2:47 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Philippians 2:5 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Christ will make His home in you...

Christ In You
 
Colossians 1:27 ESV / 20 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.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 8:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
John 14:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Romans 8:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
John 14:23 ESV / 7 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 14:6 ESV / 7 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.
Revelation 3:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Colossians 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 6 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 8:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 6 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.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 5 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,
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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,
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 4 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 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 4 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 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
Colossians 1:27-28 ESV / 4 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. Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Ephesians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 4 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 / 4 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Galatians 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
1 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 4 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. ...
Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
John 20:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John 14:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Revelation 22:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
1 John 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
1 John 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
1 John 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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.
1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
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 10:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
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 2:11-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Colossians 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
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. ...
Ephesians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Galatians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
2 Corinthians 12:9 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.
2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.