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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.

LORD teach us to pray pt 2

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 194 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 192 helpful votes
 
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Luke 11:1 ESV / 189 helpful votes
 
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
John 14:13-14 ESV / 187 helpful votes
 
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 9:31 ESV / 186 helpful votes
 
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Matthew 6:9 ESV / 182 helpful votes
 
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
John 16:23-24 ESV / 179 helpful votes
 
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Luke 11:9-13 ESV / 177 helpful votes
 
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 173 helpful votes
 
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Psalm 145:18-19 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 167 helpful votes
 
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Psalm 55:17 ESV / 166 helpful votes
 
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.
Matthew 9:35-38 ESV / 164 helpful votes
 
And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
James 1:5 ESV / 159 helpful votes
 
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
James 5:13 ESV / 153 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
James 5:14-15 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14 ESV / 144 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 140 helpful votes
 
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Luke 21:36 ESV / 140 helpful votes
 
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Luke 1:37 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Psalm 118:5 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.
Acts 16:25 ESV / 134 helpful votes
 
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Psalm 4:1 ESV / 131 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
James 1:6-7 ESV / 126 helpful votes
 
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Colossians 1:3 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Ezra 8:23 ESV / 123 helpful votes
 
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
1 John 5:16 ESV / 122 helpful votes
 
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 119 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Acts 12:5 ESV / 116 helpful votes
 
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
James 5:16-18 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
Acts 4:31 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
John 14:14 ESV / 106 helpful votes
 
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 105 helpful votes
 
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 96 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
James 5:13-14 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Psalm 122:6 ESV / 92 helpful votes
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
1 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 91 helpful votes
 
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
Proverbs 15:8 ESV / 90 helpful votes
 
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Matthew 21:21-22 ESV / 88 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Jude 1:20 ESV / 87 helpful votes
 
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
 

LORD teach us to pray!!! pt 1

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

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

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

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