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Thirst for water...

Thirst For Water
 
Amos 8:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
John 17:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 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 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
John 6:63 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
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. ...
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Amos 8:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
Hosea 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.
Revelation 22:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
1 Peter 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
James 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
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 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 8:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
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 has nothing to do with 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.
John 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
John 7:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
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 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Mark 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.
Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 24:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Matthew 21:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.
Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
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.’”
Zechariah 14:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
Micah 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;
Amos 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
Amos 8:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them. The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares the Lord God. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!” Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, ...
Amos 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
Hosea 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Ezekiel 7:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.
Isaiah 30:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Psalm 119:72 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...
Psalm 107:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
Psalm 74:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
Psalm 63:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 19:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. ...
2 Chronicles 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,
1 Samuel 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Genesis 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
 

God’s Discipline proves His love for us...

Gods Discipline
 
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes
 
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Revelation 3:19 ESV / 30 helpful votes
 
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
 
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...
Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. ...
Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.
Job 5:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
 
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
Titus 1:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
But hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
 
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
Psalm 94:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,
Deuteronomy 8:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
 
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
Hebrews 12:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 12 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.
Proverbs 23:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
Deuteronomy 8:5-6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Hebrews 12:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
Hebrews 12:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Titus 2:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Proverbs 3:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
Psalm 119:75 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Psalm 94:12-14 ESV / 10 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. For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
Hebrews 12:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Ephesians 6:1-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...
Galatians 6:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Colossians 3:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Romans 8:28 ESV / 8 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.
Hebrews 12:10-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:6-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. ...
Hebrews 12:5-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Titus 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
2 Corinthians 7:9-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
1 Corinthians 11:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 7 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. ...
Romans 16:17-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
John 15:1-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...
Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...
2 Samuel 7:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
James 5:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Hebrews 12:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 6 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 2:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
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 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
1 Corinthians 9:25-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Acts 5:1-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...
John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 6 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.
Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 6 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. ...
Revelation 5:5-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Philippians 4:9-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
1 Corinthians 11:29-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Romans 7:14-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...
Matthew 18:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 4 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.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Hebrews 12:3-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ...
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Titus 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,
John 20:19-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”
Isaiah 42:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
Proverbs 26:1-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. ...
Proverbs 21:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes. When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge. The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin.
Proverbs 20:26-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts. Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

There’s a blessing when you return to the LORD your God.

Return To The Lord
 
Micah 7:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Joel 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Hosea 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
Jeremiah 24:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 3 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.
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Hosea 14:1-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.” I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; ...
Psalm 69:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
1 John 4:16-18 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. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
James 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Hebrews 10:18-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ...
Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Titus 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
2 Corinthians 6:1-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; ...
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Romans 10:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 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.
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 6:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 4:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...
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 14:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,
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 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 5:44-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:23-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Zechariah 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”
Joel 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Joel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Joel 2:12-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. ...
Joel 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
Hosea 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Hosea 14:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”
Hosea 13:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!” Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window. But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; ...
Hosea 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Hosea 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
Ezekiel 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Isaiah 55:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. ...
Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 44:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Psalm 103:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 2 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 52:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Exodus 34:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

God has chosen the poor to be rich in faith.

Rich In Faith
 
James 2:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
James 2:1-26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 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? ...
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 5 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. ...
James 3:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
James 2:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
James 2:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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.
James 2:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
James 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Revelation 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
James 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
James 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
James 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
James 2:11 ESV / 3 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.
James 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
James 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Romans 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Luke 14:12-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Luke 12:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Luke 6:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Mark 4:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Matthew 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Genesis 15:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Revelation 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?
James 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
James 5:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
James 5:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...
James 4:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 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. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...
James 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
James 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
James 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
James 2:14-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...
James 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
James 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
James 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
James 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?
James 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
James 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,
James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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.
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Titus 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 2 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.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Philippians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
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 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Galatians 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
2 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
Romans 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...
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 7:1-60 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child. ...
Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
Acts 4:1-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, ...
Acts 2:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And all who believed were together and had all things in common.
Luke 16:19-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...
Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Luke 8:1-56 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means. And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. ...
Luke 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
Luke 6:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” ...
Luke 4:16-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. ...
Luke 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. ...
Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ...
Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ...
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 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 6:19-20 ESV / 2 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.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Isaiah 41:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Leviticus 19:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

New leaders...be careful.

Joshua Is The New Leader
 
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 5 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 1:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. ...
Deuteronomy 34:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Numbers 11:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.”
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 7:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel. Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai. And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.” So about 3,000 men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water. ...
Joshua 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.
Joshua 3:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. At the end of three days the officers went through the camp and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it. Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.” Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” ...
Joshua 2:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.” Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.” But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.” ...
Joshua 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Joshua 1:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 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 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Lord commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. I will be with you.”
Deuteronomy 31:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. 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.”
Numbers 27:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

Christ...the power and wisdom of GOD.

Christ The Power And Wisdom Of God
 
1 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Colossians 2:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 8 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.
James 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Jeremiah 9:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
James 1:5 ESV / 5 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.
1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 5 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 1:16 ESV / 5 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.
1 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Romans 11:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Romans 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
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,
Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Isaiah 29:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”
Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 111:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Revelation 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 3 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,
Colossians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Philippians 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
That your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1 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.
1 Corinthians 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
1 Corinthians 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
Romans 8:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 21:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
Luke 7:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”
Jeremiah 10:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Psalm 90:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Revelation 11:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
Revelation 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
2 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
1 Peter 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
1 Peter 1:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
James 3:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
James 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
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 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 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Colossians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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 6:10-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ...
Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 1:16-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
2 Corinthians 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”
2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corinthians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
1 Corinthians 11:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
1 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
1 Corinthians 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, ...
1 Corinthians 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 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. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, ...
1 Corinthians 1:18-31 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. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, ...
1 Corinthians 1:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 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.
1 Corinthians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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:
Romans 15:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;
Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 11:33-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 9:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 9:1-11:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...
Romans 8:28-30 ESV / 2 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. 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. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Acts 10:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Acts 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

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Deuteronomy 1:13 ESV / 664 helpful votes
 
Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 462 helpful votes
 
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...
1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 341 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.
Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 339 helpful votes
 
When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
Ecclesiastes 10:2 ESV / 317 helpful votes
 
A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.
Titus 3:1-11 ESV / 288 helpful votes
 
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. 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. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ...
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 ESV / 254 helpful votes
 
“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold. “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. ...
Acts 13:48 ESV / 194 helpful votes
 
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Psalm 22:28 ESV / 194 helpful votes
 
For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 187 helpful votes
 
The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 177 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.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 171 helpful votes
 
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
Proverbs 14:34 ESV / 171 helpful votes
 
Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Exodus 18:17-26 ESV / 168 helpful votes
 
Moses' father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God, and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. ...
John 15:16 ESV / 158 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.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 157 helpful votes
 
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Daniel 2:20-21 ESV / 148 helpful votes
 
Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 146 helpful votes
 
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Psalm 146:3-10 ESV / 139 helpful votes
 
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free; ...
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 138 helpful votes
 
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Mark 13:20 ESV / 114 helpful votes
 
And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
1 Peter 1:20 ESV / 104 helpful votes
 
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
Judges 8:23 ESV / 101 helpful votes
 
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”
1 Timothy 5:21 ESV / 99 helpful votes
 
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 93 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 ...
Revelation 13:8 ESV / 89 helpful votes
 
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 86 helpful votes
 
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 85 helpful votes
 
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 78 helpful votes
 
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
1 Samuel 8:1-22 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” ...
2 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Luke 16:10 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Isaiah 42:1 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Daniel 5:1-6:28 ESV / 72 helpful votes
 
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote. ...
2 John 1:1-13 ESV / 66 helpful votes
 
The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth, because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. ...
Galatians 1:10 ESV / 60 helpful votes
 
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1 Timothy 1:20-3:16 ESV / 58 helpful votes
 
Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. 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. ...
1 Peter 3:8-18 ESV / 54 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.” ...
John 19:11 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
Psalm 111:10 ESV / 54 helpful votes
 
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Deuteronomy 1:13-36 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. 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.’ ...
Ephesians 1:3-19 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, ...
John 14:27 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Judges 21:25 ESV / 52 helpful votes
 
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
2 Thessalonians 3:1-18 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. ...
2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Hosea 8:1-14 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.” Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? ...
Nehemiah 11:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.
Acts 1:24-26 ESV / 48 helpful votes
 
And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Isaiah 65:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah possessors of my mountains; my chosen shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.
2 Chronicles 36:1-23 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt. Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. ...
1 Peter 2:6-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. ...
Acts 23:5-11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’” Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.” And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?” ...
Psalm 99:1-9 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! ...
Job 31:3-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? Does not he see my ways and number all my steps? “If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, ...
Ezra 8:21-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
2 Kings 6:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Hebrews 2:8-3:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” ...
Titus 1:6-16 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. ...
Colossians 1:16-3:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. ...
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Ephesians 2:2-3:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ...
Galatians 5:10-6:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves! For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ...
1 Corinthians 15:24-30 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. ...
1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 39 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 9:11-10:19 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” ...
Romans 8:18-39 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ...
John 13:18-17:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. ...
John 6:37-7:21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ...
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 27:13-21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?” But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed. Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” ...
Matthew 22:14-21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
For many are called, but few are chosen.” Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? ...
Matthew 12:25-30 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. ...
Malachi 3:5-4:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. ...
Habakkuk 1:4-3:19 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted. “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own. They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves. Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour. ...
Jeremiah 28:1-17 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the Lord, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.” Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord, ...
Jeremiah 17:1-27 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills, on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.” Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. ...
Isaiah 30:21-32:20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!” And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. ...
Isaiah 2:22 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
Isaiah 1:9-5:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. ...
Ecclesiastes 10:5-20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves. He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall. He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them. ...
Ecclesiastes 4:12-5:20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place. There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind. ...
Proverbs 29:12-26 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked. The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the Lord gives light to the eyes of both. If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever. The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall. ...
Proverbs 15:22-16:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is! The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath. The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure. ...
Proverbs 14:25-15:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful. In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. In a multitude of people is the glory of a king, but without people a prince is ruined. Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. ...
Proverbs 8:16-10:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
By me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, ...
Psalm 105:15-110:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!” When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. ...
Psalm 47:1-9 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. ...
Psalm 32:9-33:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! ...
Job 32:9-33:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right. Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.’ “Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say. I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words. Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.’ ...
Job 11:12-12:24 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man! “If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him. If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents. Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear. You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. ...
2 Chronicles 25:2-32:25 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart. And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father. But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.” Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were 300,000 choice men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield. He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver. ...
1 Kings 22:17-38 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’” And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?” And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ ...
1 Kings 9:1-10:29 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build, the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ ...
2 Samuel 23:1-39 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: “The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue. The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth. “For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire? ...
1 Samuel 9:16-10:18 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me.” When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.” Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Tell me where is the house of the seer?” Samuel answered Saul, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind. As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?” ...
Deuteronomy 19:1-20:20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“When the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the Lord your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them. “This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past— as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live, ...
Numbers 22:1-23:30 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel. And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me. ...
Jeremiah 1:1-5:31 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” ...

Talking about God in Public...

Talking About God In Public
 
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 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 ...
James 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 3 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.
Romans 8:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pray without ceasing,
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 2 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 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...
Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Mark 13:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Mark 1:35 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 6:7 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 6:5 ESV / 2 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.
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “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.
Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 2 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.
Psalm 112:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
Psalm 37:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
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. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Psalm 34:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Psalm 28:7 ESV / 2 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.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
Psalm 18:6 ESV / 2 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.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Kings 2:13-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” He said, “Peacefully.” Then he said, “I have something to say to you.” She said, “Speak.” He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign. However, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the Lord. And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me.” She said to him, “Speak.” And he said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.” ...
1 Kings 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).
1 Kings 1:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.
1 Kings 1:1-53 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not. Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ...
2 Samuel 11:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.” ...
1 Samuel 25:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite. David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name. ...
1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
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.”
Exodus 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
Genesis 21:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
Genesis 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Love your enemies?

Love Your Enemies
 
Matthew 5:44 ESV / 209 helpful votes
 
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 173 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...
Luke 6:27 ESV / 140 helpful votes
 
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Romans 12:20 ESV / 112 helpful votes
 
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Romans 12:14 ESV / 107 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 101 helpful votes
 
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Luke 6:35 ESV / 98 helpful votes
 
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
Luke 23:34 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
1 John 4:7 ESV / 94 helpful votes
 
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Acts 7:60 ESV / 83 helpful votes
 
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Exodus 23:5 ESV / 77 helpful votes
 
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Luke 6:27-36 ESV / 74 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. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 74 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 71 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
John 3:16 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 5:43 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Proverbs 24:17 ESV / 70 helpful votes
 
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 69 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.
1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
Matthew 5:45 ESV / 62 helpful votes
 
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Mark 12:31 ESV / 56 helpful votes
 
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 5:48 ESV / 55 helpful votes
 
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Romans 12:9 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Exodus 23:22 ESV / 51 helpful votes
 
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes
 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Psalm 138:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes
 
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 47 helpful votes
 
When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Romans 12:14-21 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. ...
Romans 8:28 ESV / 46 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.
Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 46 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...
John 13:34 ESV / 45 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.
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes
 
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 43 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 ...
Matthew 5:46 ESV / 43 helpful votes
 
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 43 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. ...
Luke 6:28 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
Bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
Job 31:29-30 ESV / 42 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),
1 John 3:18 ESV / 41 helpful votes
 
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 40 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 6:31 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Deuteronomy 20:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
“When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 26:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes
 
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
Romans 13:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Exodus 23:4-5 ESV / 39 helpful votes
 
“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
Romans 13:10 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 38 helpful votes
 
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes
 
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Matthew 24:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
 
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV / 34 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 4:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
 
And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
Romans 12:21 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:19 ESV / 32 helpful votes
 
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 32 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. ...
Mark 11:25 ESV / 30 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.”
Luke 13:32-35 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
Proverbs 24:17-18 ESV / 29 helpful votes
 
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
1 Peter 2:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
James 1:2-5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Colossians 3:1-4 ESV / 28 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.
Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 12:9-11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Acts 7:52-60 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.” Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” ...
John 13:33-35 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Luke 23:28-37 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. ...
Matthew 5:8-12 ESV / 28 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.
Obadiah 1:12-13 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress. Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity.
Isaiah 43:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
Proverbs 24:17-20 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him. Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
Psalm 23:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
 
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 27 helpful votes
 
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Matthew 5:47 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Job 31:29 ESV / 26 helpful votes
 
“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him
1 John 4:19 ESV / 24 helpful votes
 
We love because he first loved us.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
 
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
Proverbs 25:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
For you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 22 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. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
 
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
 
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 20 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 5:6-8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Luke 23:33-34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
Matthew 5:43-45 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:38-48 ESV / 20 helpful votes
 
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. ...
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes
 
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 19 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. ...
1 John 3:1 ESV / 17 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.
James 4:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
John 14:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Luke 6:32 ESV / 17 helpful votes
 
“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Philippians 2:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
 
Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Sometimes...all you need is faith.

Your Faith Has Healed You
 
Luke 8:48 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
Luke 18:42 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”
Matthew 13:58 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
Mark 5:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Acts 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
Luke 17:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
Luke 17:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
Luke 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”
Matthew 15:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.
Matthew 9:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.
1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 3 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 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Acts 14:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well, said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and began walking.
Acts 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
John 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Luke 18:1-43 ESV / 3 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.’” ...
Luke 17:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.” The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ...
Luke 8:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...
Mark 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Mark 10:52 ESV / 3 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 21:21 ESV / 3 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 / 3 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 9:20-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well.” Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.
Matthew 9:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”
Matthew 8:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.
James 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
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,
Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Acts 26:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 19:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
Acts 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
Acts 11:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.
Acts 3:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. ...
John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 7:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
John 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”
John 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Luke 22:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
Luke 18:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Luke 17:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”
Luke 17:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”
Luke 17:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
Luke 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
Luke 17:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
Luke 17:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed,
Luke 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed.
Luke 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
Luke 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
Luke 12:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
Luke 8:50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”
Luke 8:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.
Luke 8:43-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me.” And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. ...
Luke 7:50 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
Luke 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
Luke 4:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.
Luke 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
Luke 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”
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;
Mark 16:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Mark 11:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Mark 10:46-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. 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!” And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.” And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. ...
Mark 9:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Mark 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Mark 9:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
Mark 6:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.
Mark 5:38-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.
Mark 5:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Mark 5:35-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Mark 5:21-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, ...
Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...
Mark 4:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”
Mark 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Mark 1:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”
Matthew 24:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.
Matthew 24:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
Matthew 23:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Matthew 16:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?
Matthew 15:22-28 ESV / 2 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.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.” ...
Matthew 14:35-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.
Matthew 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matthew 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all
Matthew 9:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
Matthew 8:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Matthew 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Matthew 8:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.
Matthew 8:5-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ...
Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ...
Matthew 6:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?