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LORD teach us to pray!!! pt 1

Prayer
 
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2,090 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.
Mark 11:24 ESV / 1,904 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
John 15:7 ESV / 1,602 helpful votes
 
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Matthew 6:6 ESV / 1,402 helpful votes
 
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 1,397 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Romans 8:26 ESV / 1,388 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.
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 1,226 helpful votes
 
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
James 5:16 ESV / 1,183 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.
Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 977 helpful votes
 
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Luke 11:9 ESV / 925 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 26:41 ESV / 896 helpful votes
 
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 854 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,
Colossians 4:2 ESV / 703 helpful votes
 
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
1 Timothy 2:1-4 ESV / 669 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 650 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.
Jeremiah 29:12 ESV / 616 helpful votes
 
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Matthew 6:5-8 ESV / 605 helpful votes
 
“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. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Psalm 34:17 ESV / 586 helpful votes
 
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Luke 18:1 ESV / 574 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 559 helpful votes
 
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 548 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.
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 525 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 508 helpful votes
 
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
1 John 5:14 ESV / 482 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 6:27-28 ESV / 470 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 458 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 5:14-15 ESV / 423 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.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 409 helpful votes
 
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 381 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.
James 4:3 ESV / 373 helpful votes
 
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Psalm 145:18 ESV / 366 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 354 helpful votes
 
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Matthew 18:19-20 ESV / 354 helpful votes
 
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 317 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 3:22 ESV / 313 helpful votes
 
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
Mark 1:35 ESV / 303 helpful votes
 
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 295 helpful votes
 
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Acts 1:14 ESV / 291 helpful votes
 
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
John 14:13 ESV / 284 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
1 John 5:15 ESV / 273 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 272 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 255 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
James 5:13-18 ESV / 254 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 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. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ...
Psalm 141:2 ESV / 254 helpful votes
 
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
James 4:2 ESV / 251 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.
Acts 2:42 ESV / 245 helpful votes
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Psalm 5:3 ESV / 244 helpful votes
 
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
James 1:6 ESV / 242 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.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 237 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. ...
Psalm 18:6 ESV / 228 helpful votes
 
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Luke 6:12 ESV / 220 helpful votes
 
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 215 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
John 15:16 ESV / 210 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.
Psalm 66:17 ESV / 208 helpful votes
 
I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:18 ESV / 202 helpful votes
 
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 198 helpful votes
 
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ...
Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 196 helpful votes
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 194 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Is God our Shepard...orare we leading ourselves.

Shepard
 
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 4 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.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
Psalm 93:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring. Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty! Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 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,
Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. ...
Ecclesiastes 1:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Deuteronomy 22:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it. You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again. “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. ...
Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. ...
Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
Genesis 1:1-2:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Luke 14:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Ezekiel 16:48-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
Genesis 38:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.
Joshua 10:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote
 
And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.

Are you blessed?

Blessed
 
Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
Matthew 5:3-7 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
“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. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Psalm 118:26 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.
Psalm 1:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Matthew 5:8-12 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Job 42:12-17 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. ...
Luke 11:28 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Psalm 32:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalm 2:12 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
James 1:12 ESV / 26 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 1:1-3 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 19 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.
James 1:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Numbers 6:22-27 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. ...
Malachi 3:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Proverbs 13:20-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.
Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
Ruth 2:4-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.” Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”
James 1:16-18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
John 10:27-30 ESV / 11 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. I and the Father are one.”
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Psalm 37:3-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
Ruth 3:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did you fare, my daughter?” Then she told her all that the man had done for her, saying, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, ‘You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’”
Joshua 21:44-45 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
Genesis 44:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack,
Genesis 27:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
Genesis 1:27-29 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 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.
James 1:12-13 ESV / 10 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.
Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
2 Corinthians 9:7-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. ...
Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 3:13-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ...
James 1:23-25 ESV / 9 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.
Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV / 9 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.
2 Corinthians 1:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
Romans 12:13-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Amos 9:11-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the Lord who does this. “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the Lord your God.
Proverbs 21:22-23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust. Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Psalm 133:1-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
Psalm 94:12-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
Psalm 84:10-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Psalm 41:1-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him; the Lord protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies. The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
1 Chronicles 4:9-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 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 Kings 17:12-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Deuteronomy 16:10-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
Deuteronomy 8:16-19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.
Genesis 50:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 32:26-28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
Revelation 21:3-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
1 John 1:2-4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.
Titus 3:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
Philippians 2:4-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
2 Corinthians 4:6-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
Acts 3:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
Matthew 25:34-40 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
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, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? ...
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:7-11 ESV / 8 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!
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Isaiah 52:4-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised. Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.” How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion. ...
Psalm 103:1-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
Psalm 65:9-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it. You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth. You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy, the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
Deuteronomy 28:1-15 ESV / 8 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. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...
Deuteronomy 23:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.
2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Peter 3:8-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 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. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
James 3:9-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
James 2:11-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Hebrews 13:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Hebrews 13:1-3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
Hebrews 11:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
Galatians 3:13-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:5-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
Acts 20:34-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Acts 14:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
John 11:25-26 ESV / 7 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 1:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Luke 23:42-43 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Luke 22:18-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 21:21-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Matthew 5:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Ezekiel 36:25-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 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. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezekiel 34:25-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Jeremiah 29:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.
Ecclesiastes 3:11-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
Proverbs 18:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 11:25-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it. Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.
Psalm 145:15-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. ...
2 Chronicles 9:6-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard. Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”
1 Chronicles 16:2-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.
James 4:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Proverbs 10:21-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Why does God make the His Spirit available to us?

The Holyspirit Given
 
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 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 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
John 14:26 ESV / 6 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.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 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,
Romans 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 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 Peter 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
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 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...
1 Corinthians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Romans 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Romans 8:26 ESV / 3 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.
Acts 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 2:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Acts 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 14:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Luke 11:13 ESV / 3 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!”
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 3 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.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Ephesians 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 2 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, ...
Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 14:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...
1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
1 Corinthians 12:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Corinthians 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, ...
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Acts 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
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 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
Acts 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 14:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
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 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Luke 24:49 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Luke 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Matthew 28:19-20 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, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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,
Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Micah 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
Isaiah 11:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
Judges 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
Genesis 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:1-2 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.

Don’t forget God when you’re young...

Don't Forget God
 
Philippians 3:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Romans 8:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—
1 John 1:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Psalm 103:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,
Deuteronomy 8:1-20 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. 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. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. ...
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
2 John 1:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Deuteronomy 6:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
John 3:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 9:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Deuteronomy 8:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Luke 6:38 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Psalm 50:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
Deuteronomy 4:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.
Hebrews 8:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Matthew 6:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Psalm 45:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,
2 Kings 17:38 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
And you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,
Deuteronomy 9:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
Deuteronomy 4:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Genesis 41:51 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”
Genesis 27:45 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”
Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 14 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.
Psalm 78:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
So that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
Psalm 59:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
1 John 4:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Psalm 10:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 11 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.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 14:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ...
Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...
Matthew 6:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Proverbs 30:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Psalm 74:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!
Psalm 74:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalm 13:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalm 9:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Job 24:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
Job 11:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
Job 9:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’
Job 8:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.
1 Samuel 1:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
Deuteronomy 25:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.
Deuteronomy 8:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
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.
Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...
Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ...
Matthew 18:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
Matthew 5:1-48 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. ...
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Micah 7:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
Isaiah 51:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
Proverbs 22:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Psalm 109:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!
Psalm 103:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
Psalm 73:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Deuteronomy 15:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
Numbers 15:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 6 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.
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Mark 11:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 6 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.
Isaiah 43:25-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Isaiah 51:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
Deuteronomy 8:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8:10-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
Deuteronomy 6:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
James 1:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
 

The Savior of Israel...(the church)

The Savior
 
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.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Titus 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Romans 15:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
That together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 4 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 2:38 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 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 12:44-45 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
John 4:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Mark 1:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Matthew 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Hosea 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Revelation 19:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
Revelation 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.
Revelation 1:17-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Revelation 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Jude 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
1 John 5:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
1 John 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For there are three that testify:
1 John 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 3 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 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Colossians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
Colossians 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
Colossians 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Galatians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
1 Corinthians 10:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
Romans 3:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Acts 20:28 ESV / 3 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 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 10:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
Acts 9:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Acts 7:59 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Acts 2:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
John 20:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 14:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
John 14:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
John 10:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I and the Father are one.”
John 8:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”
John 4:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
John 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 10:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
Luke 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Mark 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Mark 2:5-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’? ...
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 3 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 23:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 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 14:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.
Matthew 10:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Matthew 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”
Matthew 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Malachi 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.
Malachi 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Zechariah 14:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one.
Zechariah 14:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Isaiah 45:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,
Isaiah 44:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”
Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 3 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 43:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
Isaiah 42:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Job 9:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
1 Kings 18:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
Deuteronomy 32:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
Revelation 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
1 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

Live in Love...

Live In Love
 
1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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 10:25-37 ESV / 3 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?” ...
1 John 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.
1 John 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ...
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 12:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
John 21:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
John 4:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
John 4:7-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 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.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ...
John 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 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 12:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Matthew 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Numbers 13:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; ...
Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

God is fair...

God Is Fair
 
1 John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Malachi 3:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
John 14:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Psalm 51:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Deuteronomy 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
1 John 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
John 3:36 ESV / 3 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 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ezekiel 33:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Revelation 22:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...
1 John 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
1 John 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
1 John 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
2 Peter 2:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Titus 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
2 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
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,
2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
1 Timothy 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.
Ephesians 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 3:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— ...
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...
Romans 8:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Romans 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
Romans 3:1-31 ESV / 2 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.) ...
Romans 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Romans 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God shows no partiality.
Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. ...
Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 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.
Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 10:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
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 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 12:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
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 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 13:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Matthew 16:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
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 7:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Malachi 4:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
Joel 2:13 ESV / 2 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.
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
2 Chronicles 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”
Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Deuteronomy 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
Genesis 6:5-7 ESV / 2 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. And the Lord was sorry 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.”
Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

God has something prepared for those who love Him...

For Those Who Love Him
 
1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
James 2:5 ESV / 6 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?
Romans 8:28 ESV / 6 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.
1 John 3:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Romans 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 5:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 John 4:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
James 1:12 ESV / 4 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.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
John 13:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
Luke 11:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Mark 10:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 4 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.
Revelation 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
2 John 1:6 ESV / 3 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.
1 John 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
1 John 4:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 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.
1 John 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 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 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1 John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
James 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let brotherly love continue.
Titus 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 3:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Romans 13:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 8:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
John 21:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 20:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 14:31 ESV / 3 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 14:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...
Luke 15:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons.
Luke 10:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 6:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Mark 12:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 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 5:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Hosea 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”
Isaiah 64:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Jude 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
2 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
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 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
1 John 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.
1 John 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

How many times to forgive a person?

Forgive
 
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 180 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.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 136 helpful votes
 
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 114 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Colossians 3:13 ESV / 71 helpful votes
 
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.
Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 44 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.
Matthew 6:14 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
Luke 6:37 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
1 John 1:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 28 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 20:19-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
James 5:15 ESV / 26 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.
Matthew 6:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Acts 13:38 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Acts 3:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
John 3:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 26:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 18:21-35 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. ...
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Colossians 1:13-14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 5:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Daniel 9:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him
Matthew 9:6-8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
Psalm 32:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 11 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 5:23-24 ESV / 11 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.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Psalm 103:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:10-14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 86:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Psalm 86:4-5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Genesis 50:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
‘Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
1 John 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Romans 8:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Acts 10:43 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Acts 7:59-60 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Luke 23:33-34 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 10 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.
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 43:25-26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
1 John 2:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
James 5:16 ESV / 9 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.
James 4:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 8:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
Matthew 6:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Jeremiah 31:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
1 John 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Micah 7:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 8 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.
Mark 11:25-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
James 5:14-15 ESV / 5 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. 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.
Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Romans 12:14-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. ...
Luke 7:36-50 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” ...
Luke 6:1-49 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” ...
Mark 3:28-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—
Matthew 18:33-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 18:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Micah 7:18-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
1 John 1:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 4 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.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 1:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
2 Corinthians 2:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 3:21-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ...
Acts 17:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
Acts 13:38-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
John 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Luke 12:33 ESV / 4 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.
Luke 7:44-50 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” ...
Luke 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Matthew 18:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Matthew 6:12-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Joel 2:13 ESV / 4 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.
Hosea 1:1-14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.” ...