Be Holy Podcast

A Jonah mindset Pt 1

Obey That God Says
 
1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 11:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
James 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Luke 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Exodus 19:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
Exodus 24:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
John 14:23-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
Romans 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
2 John 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
 

Asking God...

Asking God
 
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 100 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 84 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
James 1:5 ESV / 80 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.
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 67 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
John 15:7 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 14:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
John 14:13-14 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Matthew 7:7-11 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
1 John 1:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
James 5:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 41 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.
James 4:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
John 16:23-24 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
1 John 3:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
John 15:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 14:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
John 16:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Luke 11:9-13 ESV / 32 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. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Psalm 51:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
John 16:23 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 29 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 ...
Luke 11:9 ESV / 29 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 18:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
James 4:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
John 3:16 ESV / 28 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 11:9-10 ESV / 28 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. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luke 11:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 27 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.
James 4:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
James 1:5-6 ESV / 24 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. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Zechariah 10:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 4:18 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Mark 9:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Jeremiah 32:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Psalm 121:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
1 Kings 3:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 20 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.
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
James 1:6-8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Isaiah 55:6-7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 Corinthians 2:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
John 14:26 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 9:31 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Mark 11:23 ESV / 18 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.
Matthew 7:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Daniel 2:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
Isaiah 65:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Psalm 32:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 10:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
1 Chronicles 4:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
1 John 5:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
James 5:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
John 4:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Mark 9:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Matthew 17:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

When you have pressure and stress...

Pressure
 
Romans 12:2 ESV / 1,080 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.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 965 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
James 1:12 ESV / 739 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Psalm 118:5-6 ESV / 694 helpful votes
 
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV / 561 helpful votes
 
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
James 5:16 ESV / 539 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Proverbs 24:10 ESV / 533 helpful votes
 
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 507 helpful votes
 
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 503 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.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 467 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 16:33 ESV / 440 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 439 helpful votes
 
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 424 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 402 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,
Galatians 1:10 ESV / 394 helpful votes
 
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 391 helpful votes
 
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Proverbs 4:14-15 ESV / 376 helpful votes
 
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 375 helpful votes
 
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 362 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.
Proverbs 1:10 ESV / 350 helpful votes
 
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
Exodus 23:2 ESV / 340 helpful votes
 
You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 334 helpful votes
 
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...
Luke 21:34 ESV / 313 helpful votes
 
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 311 helpful votes
 
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 305 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 285 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 ESV / 278 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Psalm 119:143 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 257 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Psalm 94:19 ESV / 255 helpful votes
 
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
John 3:16 ESV / 251 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 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 243 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Mark 15:15 ESV / 236 helpful votes
 
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 230 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.
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 229 helpful votes
 
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
John 14:27 ESV / 221 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.
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 216 helpful votes
 
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
1 Peter 4:4 ESV / 215 helpful votes
 
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 206 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 205 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
James 1:12-15 ESV / 202 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 200 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 200 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 195 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Psalm 118:5 ESV / 195 helpful votes
 
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
Matthew 16:26 ESV / 191 helpful votes
 
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
James 1:3-13 ESV / 189 helpful votes
 
For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ...
Isaiah 58:10-11 ESV / 187 helpful votes
 
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 178 helpful votes
 
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Psalm 35:11 ESV / 176 helpful votes
 
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Luke 21:19 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
John 8:34 ESV / 170 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
Isaiah 48:10 ESV / 170 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 53:4-7 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 167 helpful votes
 
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)
Galatians 2:11-13 ESV / 167 helpful votes
 
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Romans 6:14 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Genesis 1:29 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
Habakkuk 1:4 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Psalm 119:115 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Numbers 16:26 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”
Job 23:10-12 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold. My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 160 helpful votes
 
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
1 Chronicles 16:19-23 ESV / 160 helpful votes
 
When you were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account, saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!” Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day.
Genesis 16:5-6 ESV / 160 helpful votes
 
And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!” But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
Acts 4:18-20 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
1 Samuel 1:6-7 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb. So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.
Genesis 30:1-3 ESV / 158 helpful votes
 
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.”
Exodus 15:26 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
Proverbs 19:20-21 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
2 Corinthians 4:8-12 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Psalm 138:7-8 ESV / 146 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me. The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Luke 6:35-37 ESV / 145 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Psalm 119:165 ESV / 145 helpful votes
 
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
Matthew 10:38-40 ESV / 144 helpful votes
 
And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.
Revelation 2:10-11 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’
1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
1 Peter 3:9-11 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
2 Timothy 4:6-8 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Romans 12:17-19 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 11:33 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Romans 8:5-8 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 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. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
John 15:7-9 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 142 helpful votes
 
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...
1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
2 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 102 helpful votes
 
And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
 

What’s the big deal about the scriptures?

Scriptures
 
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 15:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Revelation 22:18 ESV / 10 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,
2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 119:160 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 7 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.
Matthew 5:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
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.
Revelation 22:19 ESV / 4 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.
Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...
John 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 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 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
Luke 10:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 22:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
Matthew 5:18 ESV / 3 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.
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 49:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Psalm 110:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”
Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You shall not murder.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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. ...
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

Finding Lost Sheep

Lost Sheep
 
Luke 15:3-7 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Matthew 18:12-14 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Matthew 15:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Psalm 119:176 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.
Luke 15:8-10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
John 10:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...
Luke 15:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
Luke 15:4-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Matthew 10:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 15:1-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...
Ezekiel 34:11-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. ...
Jeremiah 50:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.
1 Peter 2:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Luke 15:1-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...
Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ...
Luke 15:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
Matthew 24:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Revelation 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
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 10:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I and the Father are one.”
John 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
John 5:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Luke 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 4 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?’ ...
Luke 15:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
Matthew 18:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?
Matthew 9:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Ezekiel 34:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Jeremiah 31:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 17:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 17:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
John 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
John 12:49 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
John 8:58 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
John 7:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
John 4:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 23:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Luke 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Luke 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 15:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So he told them this parable:
Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” ...
Luke 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 10:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Zechariah 7:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord, saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? ...
Exodus 15:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.
Exodus 4:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,
Genesis 32:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
Genesis 18:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
Genesis 6:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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.”
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 Peter 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
Galatians 3:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
1 Corinthians 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.
Romans 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
Acts 10:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
Acts 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—
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 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20:26-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
John 17:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
John 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
John 17:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
John 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
John 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
John 14:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
John 14:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
John 14:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
John 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
John 10:26-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 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.
John 10:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:1-18 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 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
John 8:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
John 7:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
John 5:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.
John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
John 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.

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.