Be Holy Podcast

God remembers those enslaved.

Slaves
 
Colossians 4:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Exodus 21:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Galatians 3:28 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Philemon 1:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
No longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
Colossians 3:22-25 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.
John 8:34 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
Colossians 3:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Exodus 21:20-21 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
Titus 2:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
Ephesians 6:9 ESV / 16 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.
Leviticus 25:44-46 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
Exodus 21:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
1 Timothy 6:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
Luke 12:47-48 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Job 31:13-15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. 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.
1 Corinthians 7:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Galatians 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Luke 4:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Exodus 21:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Romans 8:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Exodus 21:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Exodus 21:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Deuteronomy 24:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 15:12-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
Deuteronomy 5:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
Exodus 21:26-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.
Exodus 21:20-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ...
Genesis 9:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
He said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Luke 12:43-48 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. ...
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 7 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.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Deuteronomy 23:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.
Deuteronomy 23:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.
Exodus 21:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Exodus 21:2-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
Galatians 3:28-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Romans 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Romans 6:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 1:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Acts 17:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Luke 7:1-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...
Matthew 25:46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 10:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
Deuteronomy 15:16-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same. It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.
Leviticus 25:38-46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers. For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. ...
Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ...
Exodus 21:18-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
Exodus 21:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ...
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Exodus 3:1-15:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ...
Genesis 15:13-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Genesis 11:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ...
Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. ...
Colossians 3:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
John 15:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
John 8:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Proverbs 22:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Leviticus 25:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
Exodus 21:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.
1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Colossians 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
Ephesians 6:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Ephesians 6:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Galatians 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
1 Corinthians 7:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.
1 Corinthians 7:21-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.
Luke 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Luke 12:46-47 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
Matthew 20:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,
Malachi 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Jeremiah 34:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,
Proverbs 30:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
Deuteronomy 15:12-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, ...
Deuteronomy 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Leviticus 25:43 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
Leviticus 25:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
Exodus 22:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus 21:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
Exodus 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 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 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Titus 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.

Working equals...eating.

Working
 
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 121 helpful votes
 
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Ecclesiastes 2:21 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 13 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. ...
Romans 3:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
No one understands; no one seeks for God.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 10 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.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 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. ...
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
John 14:26 ESV / 7 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.
Matthew 5:5-7:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“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. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. ...
Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil. If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he. ...
Psalm 144:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
Exodus 21:24-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. ...
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Psalm 107:1-43 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. ...
Psalm 62:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
2 Chronicles 17:1-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel. He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured. The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel. Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. ...
Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. ...
Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. ...
1 John 2:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
Hebrews 12:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Colossians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Luke 10:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Matthew 18:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...
Malachi 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Psalm 89:48 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Numbers 16:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
Numbers 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Romans 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.”
John 18:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. ...
John 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Luke 22:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...
Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Matthew 23:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
Matthew 23:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Matthew 18:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
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 15:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” ...
Matthew 10:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Nehemiah 4:17-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.
1 Samuel 28:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”
1 Samuel 25:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
1 Samuel 13:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them. And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,
1 Samuel 8:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
Judges 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

LORD...you protect me.

Protection
 
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 299 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...
Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 284 helpful votes
 
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 278 helpful votes
 
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 189 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 172 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Psalm 34:7 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Psalm 32:7 ESV / 163 helpful votes
 
You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
Psalm 138:7 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 155 helpful votes
 
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 115 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.”
Psalm 121:7-8 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Psalm 17:8 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
2 Samuel 22:3-4 ESV / 108 helpful votes
 
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Nahum 1:7 ESV / 105 helpful votes
 
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 103 helpful votes
 
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 103 helpful votes
 
The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 8:31 ESV / 95 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Psalm 3:3 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 118:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 78 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. ...
Psalm 18:30 ESV / 76 helpful votes
 
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 16:1 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 71 helpful votes
 
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Psalm 16:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.
Psalm 118:6 ESV / 69 helpful votes
 
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Psalm 34:22 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...
Psalm 119:114 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
Psalm 91:10 ESV / 59 helpful votes
 
No evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
Psalm 59:16 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 57 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.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
Romans 8:28 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 10:28-30 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
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.”
2 Samuel 22:32 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
“For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?
1 John 5:18 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
Psalm 91:4 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Psalm 46:1-2 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
Psalm 34:19 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 125:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 121:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 5:11 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
Genesis 28:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Psalm 57:1 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
Ephesians 6:10-20 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ...
Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
1 John 4:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:19 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Proverbs 12:21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.
Psalm 18:35-36 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
James 4:7 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
Psalm 23:1-4 ESV / 35 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.
Isaiah 43:1-3 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
Psalm 12:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 32 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 ...
John 3:16-17 ESV / 32 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 10:19 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...
Psalm 140:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.
Romans 13:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
Proverbs 19:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.
Psalm 121:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
Psalm 4:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Malachi 3:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. ...
Psalm 91:9-10 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge— no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.
Daniel 12:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...
Revelation 3:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”
Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Psalm 91:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
Psalm 91:1-3 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
Psalm 41:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
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.
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Psalm 59:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me;
John 17:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
John 14:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Psalm 91:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Exodus 14:13-14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Proverbs 27:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 4:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 22 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. ...
Matthew 4:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

My dream...

Dreams
 
Acts 2:17 ESV / 547 helpful votes
 
“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Joel 2:28 ESV / 482 helpful votes
 
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Ecclesiastes 5:7 ESV / 466 helpful votes
 
For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
Job 33:14-18 ESV / 356 helpful votes
 
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man; he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
Jeremiah 23:32 ESV / 341 helpful votes
 
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.
Numbers 12:6 ESV / 332 helpful votes
 
And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
Genesis 40:8 ESV / 325 helpful votes
 
They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”
Daniel 1:17 ESV / 318 helpful votes
 
As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Matthew 2:13 ESV / 294 helpful votes
 
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”
Ecclesiastes 5:3 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
Deuteronomy 13:1-3 ESV / 264 helpful votes
 
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Zechariah 10:2 ESV / 247 helpful votes
 
For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.
Genesis 20:3 ESV / 246 helpful votes
 
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.”
1 John 4:1 ESV / 245 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 Samuel 28:15 ESV / 239 helpful votes
 
Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”
Daniel 4:5 ESV / 236 helpful votes
 
I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me.
Job 33:15 ESV / 236 helpful votes
 
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,
Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 226 helpful votes
 
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ ...
Matthew 27:19 ESV / 221 helpful votes
 
Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”
Matthew 1:20 ESV / 220 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.
Job 20:8 ESV / 215 helpful votes
 
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Deuteronomy 13:1 ESV / 212 helpful votes
 
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,
Isaiah 29:7-8 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night. As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 200 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 Kings 3:5 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”
Matthew 2:19 ESV / 191 helpful votes
 
But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Jeremiah 29:8 ESV / 189 helpful votes
 
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,
Daniel 2:28 ESV / 188 helpful votes
 
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:
Judges 7:13-15 ESV / 184 helpful votes
 
When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.” And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.” As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand.”
Luke 10:19 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
Genesis 41:8 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 172 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Acts 16:9 ESV / 170 helpful votes
 
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
Matthew 2:12 ESV / 169 helpful votes
 
And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.
Genesis 42:9 ESV / 167 helpful votes
 
And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Jeremiah 23:28 ESV / 165 helpful votes
 
Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord.
Isaiah 29:8 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Matthew 1:20-23 ESV / 163 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. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Daniel 2:1 ESV / 162 helpful votes
 
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.
Genesis 31:24 ESV / 161 helpful votes
 
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Acts 16:9-10 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
Daniel 7:1-3 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.
Daniel 7:1 ESV / 151 helpful votes
 
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.
Genesis 28:12 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Judges 7:13 ESV / 145 helpful votes
 
When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
Job 7:14 ESV / 143 helpful votes
 
Then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
Acts 18:9 ESV / 141 helpful votes
 
And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,
Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 136 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. ...
Daniel 2:3 ESV / 134 helpful votes
 
And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 133 helpful votes
 
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
Daniel 2:4 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
Jeremiah 27:9 ESV / 125 helpful votes
 
So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’
Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Genesis 41:12 ESV / 124 helpful votes
 
A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 120 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Genesis 46:2 ESV / 117 helpful votes
 
And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 113 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.
Isaiah 29:7 ESV / 113 helpful votes
 
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Genesis 41:1-7 ESV / 113 helpful votes
 
After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke. And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk. ...
Acts 23:11 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”
Deuteronomy 13:3 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
1 Samuel 28:6 ESV / 110 helpful votes
 
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
John 16:33 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 105 helpful votes
 
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Genesis 31:10 ESV / 103 helpful votes
 
In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.
Daniel 4:8 ESV / 101 helpful votes
 
At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—and I told him the dream, saying,
Genesis 15:1 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
Genesis 41:16 ESV / 93 helpful votes
 
Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
James 4:7 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Genesis 40:6 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 90 helpful votes
 
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
John 10:10 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 86 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.
Revelation 12:11 ESV / 85 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.
Mark 3:27 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.
James 1:5 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Jude 1:8 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
Genesis 37:1-36 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ...
Genesis 31:11 ESV / 80 helpful votes
 
Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’
John 14:6 ESV / 79 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.
Daniel 2:2 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
Matthew 1:25 ESV / 76 helpful votes
 
But knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
John 8:12 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Genesis 41:1-57 ESV / 75 helpful votes
 
After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke. And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk. ...
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 74 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.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Amos 3:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes
 
“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
Daniel 2:1-49 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. ...
Job 4:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Daniel 2:19 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Habakkuk 2:2-3 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Genesis 41:25 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Psalm 126:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
A Song of Ascents. When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.
Deuteronomy 28:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes
 
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

Keep your temper

Temper
 
James 1:19-20 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 39 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.
Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Colossians 3:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
Proverbs 15:1-33 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. ...
Psalm 37:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.
Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.
Galatians 5:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Galatians 3:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Romans 12:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. 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. ...
Ephesians 3:10-5:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
So that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, ...
Proverbs 29:1-30:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing. When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down. A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. ...
Proverbs 16:7-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment. A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work. ...
2 Corinthians 13:5-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for. ...
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 5 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.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Luke 24:45-49 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. 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.”
Micah 4:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?
Micah 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
Proverbs 27:1-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? Better is open rebuke than hidden love. ...
Proverbs 25:10-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear. Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters. Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give. ...
Proverbs 22:24-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
Proverbs 21:19-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman. Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it. Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. 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 14:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.
Proverbs 14:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...
Proverbs 10:18-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool. When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth. 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. ...
2 Samuel 15:1-37 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,” Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.” Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.” And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. ...
1 Samuel 19:2-20:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself. And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.” And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?” And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.” ...
1 Samuel 16:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.
Deuteronomy 1:16-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’ And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do. “Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea. And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. ...
Leviticus 4:1-5:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the Lord. And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, ...
Genesis 16:1-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!” ...
James 1:1-27 ESV / 4 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. ...
Titus 1:1-3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— ...
1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...
Colossians 3:1-4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Being an Approved worker

Approved Worker
 
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. ...
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
Isaiah 52:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
Numbers 16:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the Lord will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”
2 Timothy 2:14-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. ...
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 2:1-29 ESV / 3 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 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...
2 Timothy 1:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. ...
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
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, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
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. ...
Revelation 20:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
2 Timothy 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
2 Timothy 2:15-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.” ...
1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
1 Timothy 2:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...
1 Corinthians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
John 8:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Mark 11:25 ESV / 2 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 25:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Ezekiel 13:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’ Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord. ...
Proverbs 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.

Desire for Spiritual gifts

Desire Spiritual Gifts
 
1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
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; ...
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 7 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 14:1-40 ESV / 6 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 14:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
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 14:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
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.
Acts 19:1-41 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ...
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 5 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. ...
1 Corinthians 14:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 4 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 John 5:1 ESV / 3 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.
Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
1 Corinthians 14:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
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 13:2 ESV / 3 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 12:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
1 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
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.
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;
Acts 19:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:1-4 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.
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 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
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.
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 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7 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.
1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 3:1 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.
1 John 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
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 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
James 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Hebrews 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
Titus 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”
1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Colossians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And has made known to us your love in the Spirit.
Philippians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 1:13 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,
Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
1 Corinthians 14:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
1 Corinthians 14:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
1 Corinthians 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.
1 Corinthians 14:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?
1 Corinthians 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
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 13:8-10 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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 12:28-31 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. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
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 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
1 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...
Romans 15:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
Romans 8:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Acts 19:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
Acts 10:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,
Acts 10:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 10:44-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.
Acts 10:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...
Acts 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.
Acts 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:1 ESV / 2 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 / 2 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 / 2 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.
Luke 10:27 ESV / 2 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.”
Mark 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

LORD have mercy on me...while you’re dealing with my enemies.

Have Mercy On Me
 
Mark 10:47 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Psalm 51:1-2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
John 3:16 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.
Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 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. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...
Mark 11:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Micah 7:18 ESV / 11 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.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 11 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. ...
Titus 3:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
John 13:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:34 ESV / 9 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.
2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 8 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. ...
Luke 10:25-28 ESV / 8 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.”
Psalm 51:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Romans 3:22-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
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.
John 4:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Luke 23:43 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Luke 6:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
John 3:16-17 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. 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.
Matthew 15:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”
1 John 1:9-2:1 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. 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.
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Exodus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“You shall not murder.
Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

Will you be ready when the LORD comes?

When The Lord Comes
 
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
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.
Psalm 73:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Revelation 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 3 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.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 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.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
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.
John 16:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
John 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.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Psalm 29:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Job 13:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
1 Samuel 30:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
Exodus 15:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
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 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
Revelation 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)
Revelation 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.
Revelation 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
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 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Jude 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,
1 John 4:18 ESV / 2 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 Peter 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
2 Timothy 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
2 Thessalonians 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Colossians 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Philippians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
1 Corinthians 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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.
Luke 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Mark 13:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
Mark 12:30 ESV / 2 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.’
Mark 10:52 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.
Matthew 25:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Matthew 24:42-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 21:21 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 17:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 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 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 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 7:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Daniel 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
Daniel 9:24-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”
Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Isaiah 33:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
Psalm 118:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
Psalm 105:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
2 Kings 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the Lord has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’”
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Genesis 22:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here am I.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
 

Give up your way!

Follow Me
 
Matthew 16:24 ESV / 201 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Matthew 9:9 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
Matthew 4:19 ESV / 156 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Matthew 19:21 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 10:38 ESV / 116 helpful votes
 
And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
John 10:27 ESV / 109 helpful votes
 
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Matthew 8:22 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
John 12:26 ESV / 93 helpful votes
 
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Luke 9:23 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
John 8:31-32 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
John 8:12 ESV / 81 helpful votes
 
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Mark 8:34 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Luke 18:22 ESV / 73 helpful votes
 
When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Mark 10:21 ESV / 72 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.”
John 1:43 ESV / 71 helpful votes
 
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
Mark 2:14 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Matthew 4:20 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 62 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.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
John 21:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
(This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
John 1:1 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 57 helpful votes
 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 55 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 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
John 14:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 13:35 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Matthew 16:24-25 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
John 3:16 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 5:27 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.”
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 47 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.’
Luke 14:28 ESV / 45 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?
Matthew 10:22 ESV / 45 helpful votes
 
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 8:29 ESV / 44 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.
Psalm 37:23 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;
Psalm 23:6 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Mark 1:16-18 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Genesis 24:5 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
Luke 14:26 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Matthew 3:1-17 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, ...
John 12:25 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Luke 14:33 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 25:34 ESV / 41 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.
Matthew 10:37 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 4:18-20 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
1 Kings 20:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”
Judges 8:5 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 40 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.” ...
2 Kings 6:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
John 15:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 6:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Genesis 24:39 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
I said to my master, ‘Perhaps the woman will not follow me.’
2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
1 John 4:16 ESV / 37 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.
Luke 5:27-28 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 6:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes
 
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Mark 3:1-35 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ...
Psalm 63:3-4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
John 21:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
John 16:33 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 15 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.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 12 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,
Luke 9:59 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Galatians 5:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
John 13:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”
1 Peter 2:21-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
John 10:1-42 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
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,
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 2:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
1 Thessalonians 3:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
John 14:1-31 ESV / 9 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?” ...
Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
James 2:20-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
John 10:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.