Be Holy Podcast

Planting God’s word in people...then watch them grow.

Planting
 
Ecclesiastes 11:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
Matthew 13:1-30 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...
Matthew 13:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...
Leviticus 19:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Isaiah 61:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 3 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. ...
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
Luke 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
Philippians 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
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 5:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
Acts 5:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Exodus 35:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
Exodus 22:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 21:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Genesis 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Does God exist? pt 2

There Is No God
 
Psalm 14:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
Exodus 20:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“You shall have no other gods before me.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 6 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.
Hebrews 3:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)
John 4:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit 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.
Psalm 139:7-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” ...
Psalm 90:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Luke 12:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Isaiah 45:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,
Psalm 53:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
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.”
1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 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,
Titus 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
1 Corinthians 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
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 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 21:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
Isaiah 46:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isaiah 40:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.
Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 111:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Psalm 83:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
1 Samuel 25:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Deuteronomy 4:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
Exodus 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Does God exist? pt 1

Does God Exist
 
Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
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 1:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Psalm 14:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 4 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. ...
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.

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John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 3 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.
1 John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
James 2:14-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Luke 11:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 18:15-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ...
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Revelation 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
2 Peter 1:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 5:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
James 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
James 1:23-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 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.
Hebrews 6:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Titus 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—
1 Timothy 6:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 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.
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
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 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Ephesians 6:10-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ...
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 4:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Romans 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Acts 20:28 ESV / 2 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.
Acts 20:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.
Acts 20:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Acts 15:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,
Acts 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Acts 2:42-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 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. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, ...
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.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 20:31 ESV / 2 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 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
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 13:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 11:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 10:27-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
John 6:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 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 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “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. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...
Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...
Luke 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Luke 1:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
Luke 1:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
Mark 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 10:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.”
Mark 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...
Matthew 22:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Matthew 18:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
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 6:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Daniel 11:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

God doesn’t see things the way we see them

God Looks At The Heart
 
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Psalm 51:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Matthew 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Psalm 26:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 21 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.
Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Psalm 19:14 ESV / 17 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.
Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Acts 1:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
Psalm 119:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
1 Kings 8:39 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
1 Samuel 16:1-23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.” Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?” And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. ...
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Matthew 6:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Psalm 119:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 9:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Acts 13:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Luke 6:45 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Psalm 119:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Psalm 51:10-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 12 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.
Luke 16:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Matthew 12:34 ESV / 12 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.
Proverbs 16:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
Psalm 31:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”
1 Samuel 15:1-35 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley. ...
James 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 14:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 11 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.
Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 11 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 21:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 9 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.
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Psalm 44:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Genesis 6:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Revelation 2:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
Hebrews 3:1-12:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ...
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 8 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, ...
1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
1 Corinthians 9:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...
Acts 28:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’
Acts 15:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 2:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 8:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Mark 11:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Mark 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.
Mark 7:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Matthew 15:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
Matthew 9:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Matthew 6:1-21:46 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Matthew 5:1-8:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Joel 2:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Joel 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Jeremiah 17:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
While their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
Jeremiah 12:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But you, O Lord, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
Song of Solomon 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
Proverbs 24:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Proverbs 17:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
Proverbs 12:1-25:28 ESV / 8 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. ...
Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Proverbs 4:1-23:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...
Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Psalm 147:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

A Thief’s attitude...

Theif
 
Mark 16:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
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.
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.
Revelation 12:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
Revelation 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ...
Revelation 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Colossians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Ephesians 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...
2 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
2 Corinthians 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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 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, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
Romans 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)
Romans 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Acts 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
John 10:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...
John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Luke 23:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 23:1-56 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.” And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.” But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.” ...
Luke 16:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
Mark 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. ...
Matthew 27:1-66 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor. Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. ...
Matthew 24:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Matthew 24:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Matthew 24:29-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matthew 24:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Daniel 11:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.
Exodus 21:24-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Believers are not under Mosaic Law

The Law
 
Galatians 3:24 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
James 2:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
Romans 10:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
Romans 7:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Matthew 5:17-19 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Romans 7:12 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Galatians 2:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Romans 3:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Romans 6:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 3:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Matthew 5:17-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Matthew 5:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Romans 13:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Romans 8:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Romans 4:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
Romans 3:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
John 1:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 12 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.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Genesis 9:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 3:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Ephesians 2:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
Galatians 3:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. ...
Acts 7:53 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
You who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”
1 John 5:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Galatians 5:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Galatians 3:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Acts 13:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
John 14:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Luke 16:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Psalm 19:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
Galatians 2:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Romans 8:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 2:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 2:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
Titus 3:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
Titus 3:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
Titus 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 1:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ...
Galatians 2:15-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Romans 13:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Romans 13:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
Romans 13:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Romans 13:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
Romans 8:1-4 ESV / 6 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.
Romans 7:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Romans 7:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
Acts 5:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 5:27-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
John 13:34-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Luke 24:44 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Mark 12:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 17:24-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?” And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
Matthew 5:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Psalm 119:172 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
Exodus 20:13-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You shall not murder. “You shall not commit adultery. “You shall not steal.
Hebrews 10:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 5 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 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
Galatians 3:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
Romans 5:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 5 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.” ...
Acts 2:38 ESV / 5 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.
1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
1 Peter 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
James 2:8-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
James 1:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

The Dead in Christ...We will see them again.

Dead In Christ
 
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ...
1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
John 5:28-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
1 Corinthians 15:52 ESV / 6 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 / 6 helpful votes
 
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Revelation 20:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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.
John 11:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
John 5:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
John 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Daniel 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Revelation 20:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 2:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
Acts 2:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 3 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 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Revelation 20:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 19:11-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. ...
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Revelation 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 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.
2 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
Colossians 1:18 ESV / 3 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.
Ephesians 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?
Acts 2:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Acts 2:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.
John 11:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”
John 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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 23:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Mark 9:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Matthew 24:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 16:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Isaiah 26:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
Psalm 115:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.
Psalm 16:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
Psalm 6:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Revelation 22:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Revelation 22:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 21:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Revelation 20:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:11 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.
Revelation 20:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
Revelation 20:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...
Revelation 19:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...
Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...
Revelation 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Revelation 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”
Jude 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
1 John 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
1 Peter 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
James 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
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 2:14-18 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, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Colossians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Ephesians 4:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 15:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15:24-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. ...
1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Romans 6:3-6 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. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Acts 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
Acts 3:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
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.
Acts 2:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 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. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Unfriendly People...(is that me?)

Unfriendly People
 
John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 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.
Proverbs 19:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. ...
Proverbs 18:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice. ...
Proverbs 17:1-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts. An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. ...
Revelation 22:18-19 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, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...
Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
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 20:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
Proverbs 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs 20:1-30 ESV / 2 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. ...
Proverbs 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders.
Proverbs 16:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. ...
Proverbs 15:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. ...
Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 2 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 13:22 ESV / 2 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 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

What good is wealth?

Wealth
 
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 267 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.”
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 256 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 241 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 / 211 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.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 194 helpful votes
 
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 179 helpful votes
 
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 172 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.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 144 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.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 135 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.
Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 114 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.
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 113 helpful votes
 
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Acts 2:44-45 ESV / 110 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.
Matthew 6:31-33 ESV / 101 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.
Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Luke 16:11 ESV / 98 helpful votes
 
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 8:18 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 90 helpful votes
 
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 28:22 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 75 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.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 74 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.”
Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 70 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.”
Luke 14:28 ESV / 65 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?
Proverbs 11:4 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 3:9-10 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
1 Samuel 2:7 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 56 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. ...
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 51 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.
Acts 20:35 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 49 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.
Mark 10:23-27 ESV / 48 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.”
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 48 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.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Psalm 112:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
Matthew 13:22 ESV / 42 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 6:1-34 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 18:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. 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. ...
Proverbs 11:28 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
Proverbs 10:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Proverbs 15:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
Deuteronomy 28:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 33 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.
Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV / 33 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 23:4-5 ESV / 33 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.
Psalm 128:1-6 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! ...
Romans 13:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Proverbs 23:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 29 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 / 28 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Psalm 37:16-17 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.
John 10:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Mark 8:36 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Proverbs 23:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
Deuteronomy 16:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Genesis 13:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Mark 4:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
John 3:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.
Hebrews 11:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
Proverbs 28:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
Mark 10:29-30 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
Proverbs 21:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 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.
Luke 16:13 ESV / 19 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.”
Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Psalm 37:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
Revelation 13:1-14:20 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...
Revelation 6:2-9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!” ...
Hebrews 11:26-13:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. ...
1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 Peter 1:1-2:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...
James 5:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
James 1:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Colossians 1:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,
1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
Romans 12:1-15:33 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
Acts 20:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
John 21:4-6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.