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Our eyes are composed of more than two million parts, all working together to make you see. The giant squid has the largest eyeball on the face of the earth. At 18 inches across, it's about the size of a beach ball. An ant has two eyes, each of which is made up of many smaller eyes. This type of eye is called a compound eye. Worms don't have eyes. A chameleon's eyes can look in different directions - at the same time! Babies cry but don't produce tears until they're one to three months old. Each of our eyelashes has a "life span" of approximately five months. Of all the muscles in our body, the eye muscles are the most active. Dogs can't tell the difference between red and green. Overall, baseball causes the most eye injuries, followed by basketball, water sports and racquet sports.

Myths Myth: Eating carrots will improve my vision Fact: While it is true that carrots are high in Vitamin A, an essential vitamin for sight, only a small amount is necessary for good vision. Myth: Reading in poor light will damage my sight Fact: Reading or doing close work in poor light can be uncomfortable but it won't damage your eyesight. If there's enough light to read, then by definition there's enough light. What is true, is that as we get older we all need more light to see the same things. So, when a mum comes into her child's dimly lit room and turns the light on, saying "You can't possibly see in this light," it's because she can't see in that light! Myth: Sitting too close to a television is bad for my eyes Fact: It can be uncomfortable to sit too close to a television but your eyes will not be damaged by doing so. The sustained effort of continuous close-focusing can emphasise any vision defect and result in eye strain and headaches, so you should watch television at a distance that feels comfortable. It's generally only children who watch TV at six inches... they have plenty of accommodation (the facility to focus from distance to near and back again) and it doesn't do them any lasting harm. Myth: If I don't wear glasses, I don't need to have my eyes tested Fact: Everybody's eyesight changes over time and it's important to check for conditions such as glaucoma which can be treated easily but can be devastating if undetected. An eye test can also reveal other things about your health, including high blood pressure and diabetes. For all these reasons, The Eye Care Trust recommends everyone to have an eye test every two years, or more often for young children and people who have sight problems in the family.

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The eye muscles are most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move ht eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times powerful than they need to be. Eyes are composed of more than two million working parts. The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. A normal lifespan will bring you almost 24 millions images of the world around you. Eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles & organs in our body. A blink of an eye lasts about one tenth of a second. The average persons blink their eyes about 11,500 times per day and about 4.2 million times per years. Dacryphilia is the arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you away from crying. Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear well. You cant sneeze with your eyes open (you can try it!!) Everyone is colour blind at birth. The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100 % ability at any moment, day or night. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes was an Ophthalmologist. Albert Einstein's eyes were removed by his ophthalmologist Dr. Henry Abrams during the autopsy in 1955 and stored. The eyes were put up for auction in 1994. The term "Uvea"was first used by Galen, a Roman physician to include both the choroid and the iris because they resemble a grape from which the stalk had been torn out leaving a hole in front, the hole being the pupil of the eye. Lewis Carroll had episodes of micropsia during his migraine attacks which made him to conceive the idea of Alice seeing things smaller than they were. Famous football player of Brazil Socrates was a qualified ophthalmologist.

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An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain. The giant squid has the biggest eye in this world. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is 1 foot or more in diameter. Its physically impossible for pigs to look up in to the sky. The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet. Dogs only see shades of grey and most of them are short sighted. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared & ultraviolet light. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface dont have eyes Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time. Owls have eyeball that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue An eagle can see a rabbit about 1 mile or 1760 yards away. Crocodiles are blind in the water but very keen of sight in the air. They are also color-blind Owls are the only bird that can see the color blue. Unlike all other insects, flies have five eyes. They have two large eyes and three smaller eyes between them Fish do not have eyelids. They do not require tears either, since their eyes are bathed by water, no special lubricant like tears is required The hawk has the sharpest eye. Its eye has two foveae and the maximum concentration of cones. Bulls are color blind. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes. A scallop has 35 blue eyes Zebras can't see the color orange.

Bible Verses about Sight Exodus 4:11 The LORD said to [Moses], 'Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?' 1 Samuel 12:16 Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes! 2 Samuel 10:12, 1 Chronicles 19:13 The LORD will do what is good in His sight. 2 Chronicles 7:14-16 If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that My name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there. Job 19:27 I myself will see [God] with my own eyes - I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! Job 34:21 [God's] eyes are on the ways of men; He sees their every step. Job 42:5 My ears had heard of You but now my eyes have seen You. Psalm 19:14

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 27:4 One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek Him in His temple. Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. Psalm 94:8-10 Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise? Does He who implanted the ear not hear? Does He who formed the eye not see? Does He who disciplines nations not punish? Does He who teaches man lack knowledge? Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints. Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law. Psalm 119:148 My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on [God's] promises. Psalm 146:8 The LORD gives sight to the blind. Proverbs 3:21 Preserve sound judgment and discernment, do not let them out of your sight. Proverbs 20:12 Ears that hear and eyes that see - the LORD has made them both. Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 28:11 A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him. Proverbs 29:13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both. Proverbs 29:20

Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Ecclesiastes 11:9 Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment. Isaiah 5:18-19, 21 Woe to those ... who say, 'Let God hurry, let Him hasten His work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it. ... Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.' Isaiah 6:9,10 'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed. Isaiah 42:5-9 This is what God the LORD says - He Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, Who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it: 'I, the LORD , have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness. I am the LORD ; that is My name! I will not give My glory to another or My praise to idols. See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.' Isaiah 64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, Who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. Ezekiel 12:2 They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people. Micah 7:7-10 As for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Because I have sinned against Him, I will bear the LORD's wrath, until He pleads my case and establishes my right. He will bring me out into the light; I will see His righteousness. Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, 'Where is the LORD your God?' My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.

Matthew 7:4-5, Luke 6:42 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Matthew 11:2-5 When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask Him, 'Are you the One Who was to come, or should we expect someone else?' Jesus replied, 'Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.' Matthew 13:10-17 The disciples came to Him and asked, 'Why do You speak to the people in parables?' He replied, 'The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ... This is why I speak to them in parables: 'Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.' Matthew 20:32-34 Jesus stopped and called them. 'What do you want Me to do for you?' He asked. 'Lord,' they answered, 'we want our sight.' Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed Him. Mark 8:17-18 Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? Mark 8:25 Once more Jesus put His hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Luke 2:30-32 For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to Your people Israel. Luke 10:22-24 'All things have been committed to Me by My Father. No one knows Who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows Who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.' Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, 'Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I

tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.' Luke 16:15 [Jesus] said to [the Pharisees], 'You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight.' Luke 24:31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized [Jesus]. John 6:40 For My Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. John 9:39-41 Jesus said, 'For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.' Some Pharisees who were with Him heard Him say this and asked, 'What? Are we blind too?' Jesus said, 'If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.' John 12:40 He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn - and I would heal them. Acts 1:9-11 [Jesus] was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, Who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.' Acts 26:16-18 [Jesus said to Paul,] 'I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of Me and what I will show you. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.' Acts 28:27 For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in [God's] sight by observing the

law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. Romans 11:7-10 What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, as it is written: 'God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day.' And David says: 'May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them. May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.' 1 Corinthians 2:9 No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 3:19 The wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. 2 Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight. Ephesians 1:4 [God] chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. Colossians 1:21-22 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now He has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation. Hebrews 4:13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. 1 Peter 3:3-4 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. 2 Peter 1:5-9 Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of

our Lord Jesus Christ. But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. 1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when [Jesus] appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Revelation 1:7 Look, [Jesus] is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him.

18 Bible Verses about Eyes Matthew 6:22 ESV / 80 helpful votes The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 23 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. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin. Luke 11:33-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light. Matthew 5:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 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. James 1:27 ESV / 4 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. Ephesians 1:16-21 ESV / 4 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 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, ... Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ... 1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ... Genesis 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Genesis 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote 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. Genesis 3:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Nose 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord. Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 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. Isaiah 3:16-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike

with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ... 1 Kings 18:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. 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 Peter 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 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. 1 Timothy 2:9 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, Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. Romans 12:19 ESV / 2 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. Acts 2:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes He foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Luke 17:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all Matthew 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes He said to him, Which ones? And Jesus said, You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Isaiah 3:18-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; the signet rings and nose rings; the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; ... Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom. Job 41:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? ... Job 40:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Job: Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it. Then Job answered the Lord and said: Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further. ... 1 Kings 18:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth. So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals. ... 1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world. Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. Exodus 32:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes So Aaron said to them, Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes You shall not murder. Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Genesis 35:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments. Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Ears Romans 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 1 John 4:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Genesis 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 1 Timothy 4:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes But with what is proper for women who profess godlinesswith good works. 1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, Luke 1:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Matthew 16:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. So he left them and departed. 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 3 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. 1 Timothy 2:9 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, Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for foodand God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Romans 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ... Acts 10:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16 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 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Luke 20:46-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation. Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner! ...

Luke 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Luke 12:33 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. Matthew 16:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? Matthew 11:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Matthew 5:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 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. Daniel 10:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. On the twenty-fourth day of the

first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris) I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. ... Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes 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. Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; Isaiah 49:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength Isaiah 33:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. Proverbs 31:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Psalm 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. Psalm 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God. Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes You shall not murder. Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ... Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Genesis 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God

separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ... Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Revelation 22:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done. 1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, James 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. James 1:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote 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. Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 1 helpful vote For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, Titus 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote 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, Colossians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, Galatians 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 14:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

45 Bible Verses about Mouth Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 27 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. 1 John 1:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 8 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. Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 8 helpful votes I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 6 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. ... 2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 5 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.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Revelation 21:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. Matthew 6:24 ESV / 4 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. 1 John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believeand shudder! Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them,

tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name? And then will I declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. Psalm 103:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes 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, Revelation 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no liejust as it has taught you, abide in him. 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 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. 1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. Acts 19:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. Acts 8:9-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the power of God that is called Great. And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed. John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes If he called them gods to whom the word of God cameand Scripture cannot be broken Luke 18:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, They are my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God. Amos 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Ezekiel 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes And say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? Deuteronomy 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. Deuteronomy 18:9-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. Exodus 7:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. Exodus 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes God said to Moses, I am who I am. And he said, Say this to the people of Israel, I am has sent me to you. Revelation 22:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Revelation 16:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. Romans 13:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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. Exodus 20:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote You shall not murder. Genesis 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Sense Of Touch Psalm 34:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 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. ... 2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ... 2 Corinthians 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ... Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ. And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. ... John 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it? And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. And he said to him, You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? ... Mark 10:17-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother. And he said to him, Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth. And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. ... Mark 1:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, If you will, you can make me clean.

Matthew 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory! And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! ... Psalm 119:103 ESV / 2 helpful votes How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 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 1:1-6 ESV / 2 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; ... Exodus 30:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 99 helpful votes He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. 1 Peter 4:12-19 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. ... Job 30:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. Revelation 21:6-7 ESV / 18 helpful votes And he said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. Job 14:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 15 helpful votes Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Psalm 41:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health. Romans 8:18 ESV / 11 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. Psalm 25:1-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes Of David. To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. ... Job 33:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, Matthew 24:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. Mark 5:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, Job 30:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 5 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. ... Job 33:12-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. Why do you contend against him, saying, He will answer none of man's words? For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, ... Revelation 16:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish

Temptation 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 183 helpful votes No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Matthew 26:41 ESV / 90 helpful votes Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. James 4:7 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 1:12-16 ESV / 56 helpful votes Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Hebrews 2:18 ESV / 46 helpful votes For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Matthew 4:1-11 ESV / 26 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 ... Ephesians 4:27 ESV / 24 helpful votes And give no opportunity to the devil. Mark 14:38 ESV / 22 helpful votes Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. James 1:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. James 1:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. James 1:2-4 ESV / 16 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. Luke 22:40 ESV / 16 helpful votes And when he came to the place, he said to them, Pray that you may not enter into temptation. Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 12:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 1 Peter 4:1-2 ESV / 12 helpful votes Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for foodand God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 1 John 4:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 2 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes So that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. Mark 9:42-47 ESV / 11 helpful votes Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet

to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, Romans 6:12-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes So that the tested genuineness of your faithmore precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by firemay be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Luke 4:1-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread. And Jesus answered him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone. And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ... Luke 22:46 ESV / 8 helpful votes And he said to them, Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation. 1 John 2:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes For all that is in the worldthe desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions is not from the Father but is from the world. 1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the worldthe desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessionsis not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 2 Peter 3:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. James 1:14-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

Ephesians 6:13-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes 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, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, Galatians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 2 Chronicles 32:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart. Revelation 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Luke 8:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Psalm 66:8-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be heard, who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip. For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. Genesis 3:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, Did God actually say, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. But the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. ... Revelation 12:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. 1 John 2:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 1 Peter 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. James 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Romans 7:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. Luke 11:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation. Mark 10:21-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 12:41 ESV / 5 helpful votes The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. Proverbs 13:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. Proverbs 2:1-16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ... Psalm 94:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes When I thought, My foot slips, your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. Genesis 39:7-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, Lie with me. But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. 1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 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. 1 Peter 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, James 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. James 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. James 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. Hebrews 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 1 Timothy 5:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes For some have already strayed after Satan. 1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Romans 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. Romans 7:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. Romans 7:5-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, You shall not covet. But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. ... Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Luke 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away. Matthew 4:8-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, Be gone, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve. Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, They are my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God. Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. Proverbs 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. Psalm 66:10-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you, Psalm 17:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. Job 7:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Visit him every morning and test him every moment? Joshua 7:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes When I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath. Genesis 27:6-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Rebekah said to her son Jacob, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies. ... Genesis 22:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here am I. He said, Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you. ... Genesis 3:1-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, Did God actually say, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. But the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. ... Revelation 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. 2 Peter 2:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, 2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 1 Peter 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes But they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. James 1:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Hebrews 11:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 2 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 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. 1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain. Galatians 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes And though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 2 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 1 Corinthians 10:28-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes But if someone says to you, This has been offered in sacrifice, then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 1 Corinthians 8:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. Romans 14:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. Romans 12:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we

are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 16:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Luke 22:55-60 ESV / 3 helpful votes And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, This man also was with him. But he denied it, saying, Woman, I do not know him. And a little later someone else saw him and said, You also are one of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not. And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean. ... Luke 22:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. Luke 22:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, Luke 22:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. Luke 21:33-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man. Luke 12:35-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he

will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! Mark 14:67-71 ESV / 3 helpful votes And seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus. But he denied it, saying, I neither know nor understand what you mean. And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, This man is one of them. But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean. But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, I do not know this man of whom you speak. Mark 14:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? Mark 13:33-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore stay awakefor you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake. Mark 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. Mark 13:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes And then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ! or Look, there he is! do not believe it. Mark 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. Mark 4:15 ESV / 3 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 26:69-74 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, You also were with Jesus the Galilean. But he denied it before them all, saying, I do not know what you mean. And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, This

man was with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied it with an oath: I do not know the man. After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you. ... Matthew 26:38-42 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then he said to them, My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me. And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done. Matthew 26:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then Jesus said to them, You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. Matthew 25:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Matthew 24:42-44 ESV / 3 helpful votes Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 18:6-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire. Matthew 13:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. Matthew 12:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 3 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. Matthew 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 3 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 4:1-25 ESV / 3 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 ... Amos 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! Amos 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, You shall not prophesy. Hosea 7:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. Daniel 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Jeremiah 35:5-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, Drink wine. But they answered, We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever. You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn. Jeremiah 2:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go. Jeremiah 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes A wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her. Isaiah 39:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Isaiah 39:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. Isaiah 39:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And from where did they come to you? Hezekiah said, They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon. He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them. Isaiah 33:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes He will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. Isaiah 33:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

Ecclesiastes 7:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Proverbs 28:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance. Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. Proverbs 19:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. Proverbs 16:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good. Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. Proverbs 9:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, Whoever is simple, let him turn in here! And to him who lacks sense she says, Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 7:7-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes And I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; ... Proverbs 6:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? Proverbs 6:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? Proverbs 5:6-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes She does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, ... Proverbs 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. Proverbs 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Proverbs 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, Proverbs 2:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, Proverbs 1:10-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse ... Psalm 119:165 ESV / 3 helpful votes Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. Psalm 119:110 ESV / 3 helpful votes The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts. Psalm 119:101 ESV / 3 helpful votes I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. Psalm 94:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

Psalm 73:2-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. ... Job 31:38-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last, let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Job 31:19-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty. ... Job 31:5-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes 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, then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door, ... Job 31:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? Job 2:3-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes And the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason. Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face. And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life. So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. ... Job 1:8-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face. And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand. So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. ... Nehemiah 13:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Nehemiah 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. 2 Chronicles 32:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 1 Chronicles 21:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number. But Joab said, May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel? But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem. And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword. ... 1 Chronicles 21:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. 2 Kings 20:12-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country, from Babylon. He said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them. Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord: ...

1 Kings 15:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel. 1 Kings 13:15-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then he said to him, Come home with me and eat bread. And he said, I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place, for it was said to me by the word of the Lord, You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came. And he said to him, I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him. So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water. 1 Kings 13:11-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king. And their father said to them, Which way did he go? And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone. And he said to his sons, Saddle the donkey for me. So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it. And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am. Then he said to him, Come home with me and eat bread. ... 1 Kings 11:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. 2 Samuel 11:2-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes 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. Judges 8:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. Deuteronomy 28:47-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Numbers 24:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness. And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his discourse and said, The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered: How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel! ... Numbers 23:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes And Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams. Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram. And Balaam said to Balak, Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height, and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram. And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. ... Numbers 22:15-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these. And they came to Balaam and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: Let nothing hinder you from coming to me, for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me. But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more. So you, too, please stay here tonight, that I may know what more the Lord will say to me. ... Numbers 22:1-41 ESV / 3 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. ... Exodus 34:12-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. Exodus 22:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. ... Exodus 21:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ... Genesis 26:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, My wife, thinking, lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah, because she was attractive in appearance. Genesis 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother. Genesis 20:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done. Genesis 20:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 18:13-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes The Lord said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh and say, Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son. But Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. He said, No, but you did laugh. Genesis 12:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go. Genesis 12:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes So Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Genesis 12:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake. Revelation 12:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea. Revelation 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Revelation 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Sin James 4:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Romans 6:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. John 3:16-17 ESV / 13 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. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 John 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. Galatians 5:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 5 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 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, You fool! will be liable to the hell of fire. Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Matthew 25:46 ESV / 4 helpful votes And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. Matthew 25:31-43 ESV / 4 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, ... James 2:14-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Romans 7:12-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned John 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ... Luke 12:16-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes And he told them a parable, saying, The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops? And he said, I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? ... Matthew 22:35-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ... Matthew 15:17-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone. Matthew 7:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes And then will I declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. Matthew 5:48 ESV / 3 helpful votes You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 3 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 23:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he is like one who is inwardly calculating. Eat and drink! he says to you, but his heart is not with you. Deuteronomy 30:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 1 John 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. 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. Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Salvation Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 130 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. John 6:37 ESV / 68 helpful votes All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. John 3:16 ESV / 51 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. 2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 47 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,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 45 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. Mark 16:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Acts 2:38 ESV / 35 helpful votes And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Romans 1:16 ESV / 32 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 5:24 ESV / 30 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 11:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? 1 Timothy 2:3-6 ESV / 23 helpful votes This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. Romans 1:17 ESV / 22 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. Ephesians 1:3-23 ESV / 18 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, ...

Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 14 helpful votes Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 2 Corinthians 5:15-19 ESV / 14 helpful votes And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Acts 16:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household. Job 3:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes Who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 1 John 5:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 11 helpful votes And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says I know him but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, James 1:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. Titus 3:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 2 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV / 11 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. Romans 10:8-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. ... Acts 15:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will. Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 1 John 4:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Hebrews 2:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes 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. Ephesians 2:3-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes 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 Christby grace you have been saved 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. Acts 13:47 ESV / 9 helpful votes For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth. Acts 13:39 ESV / 9 helpful votes And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. John 15:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes 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. John 14:6 ESV / 9 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 6:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. Luke 13:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Matthew 22:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes For many are called, but few are chosen. Psalm 132:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy. Revelation 21:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes And he said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ... 1 Peter 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Galatians 3:1-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vainif indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith ... Galatians 2:16 ESV / 8 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. Romans 13:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 8 helpful votes When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ... John 15:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes 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. John 10:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. John 6:47 ESV / 8 helpful votes Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. Amos 5:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and live; Psalm 7:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. Revelation 7:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes And crying out with a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb! James 2:18 ESV / 7 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.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 1 Timothy 1:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 ESV / 7 helpful votes Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 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. 1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 2:7-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him Romans 8:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Acts 3:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 7 helpful votes And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself. John 17:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. John 6:50-71 ESV / 7 helpful votes

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? So Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ... John 6:44 ESV / 7 helpful votes No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. John 3:3-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes 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. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again. ... Revelation 7:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, James 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. Titus 3:3-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 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, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 2:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

2 Thessalonians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 6 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. 2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. Romans 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 3:21-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ... Romans 2:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Acts 28:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen. Acts 22:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name. Acts 17:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ. Acts 13:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

Acts 2:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself. John 20:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:19-24 ESV / 6 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. ... John 15:1-27 ESV / 6 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. ... John 12:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light. When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. John 11:52 ESV / 6 helpful votes And not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. John 11:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, John 8:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins. John 6:65 ESV / 6 helpful votes And he said, This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.

John 6:47-50 ESV / 6 helpful votes Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. John 6:45 ESV / 6 helpful votes It is written in the Prophets, And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me John 5:25-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. ... John 4:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. John 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes That whoever believes in him may have eternal life. John 3:14-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. John 1:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. Luke 24:47 ESV / 6 helpful votes And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Luke 14:25-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, ... Luke 3:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Mark 1:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Matthew 18:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 6 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 9:6-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sinshe then said to the paralyticRise, pick up your bed and go home. And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men. Matthew 3:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. Habakkuk 3:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Was your wrath against the rivers, O Lord? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea, when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation? Jonah 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!

Joel 2:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls. Psalm 73:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Revelation 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. Revelation 10:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes But that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. Revelation 5:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes And they sang a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, Revelation 3:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. 1 John 4:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 2:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes And this is the promise that he made to useternal life. 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. 2 Peter 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 1 Peter 1:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, James 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. Hebrews 6:17-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 4:1-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 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. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter my rest, although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. And again in this passage he said, They shall not enter my rest. ... Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? 2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. 1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 1 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. Colossians 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Colossians 1:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. Colossians 1:20-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. Colossians 1:19-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes 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. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. Colossians 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growingas it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, Colossians 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, Philippians 3:7-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 2:12-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Philippians 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, Ephesians 6:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes And also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, Ephesians 5:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Ephesians 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes And to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, Ephesians 3:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Ephesians 3:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. ... Ephesians 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:4-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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 Christby grace you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ... Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes And you were dead in the trespasses and sins Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, Ephesians 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ Galatians 4:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, Galatians 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, 2 Corinthians 6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 5 helpful votes But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. 1 Corinthians 10:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. 1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Romans 15:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Romans 15:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes And in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name. Romans 11:19-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Then you will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. Romans 10:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 10:3-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down) or Who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ... Romans 9:30-33 ESV / 5 helpful votes What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame. Romans 8:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 7:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Romans 7:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Romans 6:3-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Romans 5:15-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all

men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. ... Romans 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 5 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, ... Romans 3:28-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is onewho will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Romans 1:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, Acts 20:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 16:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Then he brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Acts 16:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes She followed Paul and us, crying out, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation. Acts 15:7-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Acts 11:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life. Acts 4:10-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the deadby him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:8-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the deadby him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 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 18:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes So Jesus said to Peter, Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me? John 12:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. John 6:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes Jesus answered them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.

A Time For Love Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 32 helpful votes For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ... 1 John 4:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. John 10:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 14:6 ESV / 6 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. Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. ... John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Ecclesiastes 1:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. Job 7:1-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, When shall I arise? But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. ...

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 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. Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes And he said, There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me. And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ... Ecclesiastes 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ... John 17:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ... John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Genesis 50:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Jeremiah 1:4-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote 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. Then I said, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth. But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am only a youth; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord. Adversity 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 ESV / 180 helpful votes We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; Proverbs 24:10 ESV / 102 helpful votes If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Philippians 4:12-13 ESV / 82 helpful votes 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. 2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 78 helpful votes But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 59 helpful votes And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. Proverbs 3:4-6 ESV / 58 helpful votes So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. 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. Romans 8:28 ESV / 57 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. Romans 12:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Revelation 21:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. Proverbs 3:4-5 ESV / 26 helpful votes So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded. Joshua 1:9 ESV / 25 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. James 1:2-4 ESV / 23 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 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV / 20 helpful votes Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. Hebrews 10:26-31 ESV / 20 helpful votes For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or

three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, Vengeance is mine; I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge his people. ... Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things. Psalm 34:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 18 helpful votes Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. Isaiah 43:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 1 Corinthians 9:25-27 ESV / 14 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 5:1-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 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. Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed. Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. James 1:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. Job 15:1-35 ESV / 9 helpful votes Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ... 1 Peter 4:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, Isaiah 40:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. Ecclesiastes 7:2-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Job 2:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. 1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 6 helpful votes For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Psalm 119:67 ESV / 6 helpful votes Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes 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. Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ... Psalm 34:1-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. ... 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. ... Daniel 3:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And the herald proclaimed aloud, You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. ... Job 36:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes And Elihu continued, and said: Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf. I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker. For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you. Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding. ... 1 Kings 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died, Job 35:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Elihu answered and said: Do you think this to be just? Do you say, It is my right before God, that you ask, What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned? I will answer you and your friends with you. Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. ... Angry Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. James 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Romans 12:19 ESV / 5 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. Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. James 1:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Colossians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations Psalm 37:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. Revelation 20:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ... Revelation 17:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. Revelation 13:8 ESV / 2 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. Revelation 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. Revelation 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

Revelation 9:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. Revelation 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. Revelation 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Revelation 9:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, Ephesians 5:25-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, Romans 12:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. 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 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. Luke 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. Mark 10:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. Mark 9:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. Matthew 25:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then he will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down. As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age? And Jesus answered them, See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. ...

Matthew 17:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah. He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him. ... Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Psalm 145:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Psalm 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? 1 Samuel 28:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then Saul said to his servants, Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a medium at En-dor. Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way. They said, No; we will spend the night in the town square. But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. ... Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Revelation 11:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. Romans 9:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, Psalm 9:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. Love 1 John 4:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 9 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; ... John 13:34-35 ESV / 9 helpful votes A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Mark 12:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Matthew 6:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Colossians 3:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 7 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. Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 7 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.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, Romans 13:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 12:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Romans 12:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 1 John 4:18 ESV / 5 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. James 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. Galatians 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes If you love me, you will keep my commandments. John 13:34 ESV / 5 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. Luke 6:35 ESV / 5 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.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 1 John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Let all that you do be done in love. Romans 13:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John 21:15-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Feed my lambs. He said to him a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Tend my sheep. He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? and he said to him, Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. John 13:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here. Luke 6:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. Matthew 22:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 19:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 10:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it. Joshua 22:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. 1 John 4:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes We love because he first loved us. 1 John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, James 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, Philippians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, selfcontrol; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Galatians 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 2 Corinthians 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 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. Romans 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. John 17:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them. John 15:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. John 14:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. John 13:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ... Luke 11:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. Luke 10:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 3 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? ... Matthew 5:43-44 ESV / 3 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, Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. Proverbs 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Psalm 31:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride. Psalm 18:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength. Leviticus 19:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Revelation 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Jude 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 2 John 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. 2 John 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And now I ask you, dear ladynot as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginningthat we love one another. 1 John 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 1 John 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 1 John 4:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 John 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 1 John 4:16-19 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. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ... 1 John 3:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. 1 John 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 1 John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 1 John 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 1 John 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 1 John 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. 1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, James 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, Philemon 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to youI, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus Philemon 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, Titus 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. 2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 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. 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

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 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. Colossians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes And has made known to us your love in the Spirit. Colossians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, Philippians 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. 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 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, Galatians 5:13-14 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. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. 2 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. 2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes But as you excel in everythingin faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for yousee that you excel in this act of grace also. 1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that all of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Romans 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes For the commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. John 21:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? and he said to him, Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. John 21:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said to them, I am going fishing. They said to him, We will go with you. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, Children, do you have any fish? They answered him, No. ... John 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. John 16:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. John 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes These things I command you, so that you will love one another. John 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. John 15:9-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ... John 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. John 14:21-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world? Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me. John 11:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes So the Jews said, See how he loved him! John 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, he whom you love is ill. John 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. John 8:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. John 8:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. John 5:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes But I know that you do not have the love of God within you. Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it? And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. And he said to him, You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? ... Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, Mark 12:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Mark 12:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:28-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, Which commandment is the most important of all? Jesus answered, The most important is, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Matthew 22:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:36-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 22:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ... Micah 6:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Hosea 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God. Hosea 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; Hosea 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the Lord said to me, Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins. Daniel 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, Lamentations 3:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Song of Solomon 8:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for? Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! Song of Solomon 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. Psalm 145:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. Psalm 136:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. Psalm 116:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Psalm 103:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; Psalm 97:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 86:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Psalm 86:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. Psalm 85:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Psalm 69:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes The offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

Psalm 63:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. Psalm 59:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress. Psalm 40:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me! Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 36:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Psalm 33:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord. Psalm 31:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! Psalm 31:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, Psalm 23:5-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Love And Compassion Psalm 103:2-4 ESV / 15 helpful votes 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,

John 13:34 ESV / 11 helpful votes A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. John 3:16 ESV / 9 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. Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. Revelation 21:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. Ezekiel 13:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes And say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? James 3:4-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes 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! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. ... John 15:1-27 ESV / 4 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. ... John 1:1-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Revelation 22:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Titus 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Acts 19:17-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Matthew 23:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes 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! Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Deuteronomy 18:9-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. Exodus 7:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the

sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Revelation 21:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Revelation 16:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, Acts 8:9-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the power of God that is called Great. And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed. Love And Forgiveness 1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 84 helpful votes Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 71 helpful votes Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 49 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. Romans 12:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Colossians 3:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. John 3:16 ESV / 27 helpful votes For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Romans 12:2 ESV / 21 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. Matthew 11:29-30 ESV / 21 helpful votes 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 6:9-13 ESV / 21 helpful votes Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 1 Peter 3:18-22 ESV / 16 helpful votes For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

Luke 6:37 ESV / 15 helpful votes Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 14 helpful votes To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. Romans 5:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John 20:19-24 ESV / 13 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. ... John 15:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Proverbs 17:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 12 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; ... Matthew 9:6-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sinshe then said to the paralyticRise, pick up your bed and go home. And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. John 14:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 9 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. John 14:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ... Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 8 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; ...

John 8:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Luke 6:35 ESV / 7 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. John 13:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. John 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Mark 16:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ... John 14:6 ESV / 5 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. 1 John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 1 John 3:1 ESV / 4 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. Colossians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, Mark 3:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. Psalm 13:2-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him, lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. John 13:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. Mark 3:28-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin Job 7:15-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote So that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. Love And Hate Matthew 5:44 ESV / 19 helpful votes But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 1 John 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 2:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. John 3:16 ESV / 11 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. Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. Psalm 97:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. 1 John 3:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. John 14:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Revelation 2:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ... Luke 6:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 1 John 5:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. John 12:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 5 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, ... Romans 9:1-11:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes I am speaking the truth in ChristI 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 9:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes I am speaking the truth in ChristI 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 ESV / 4 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. 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 15:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed. Philippians 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Romans 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Romans 9:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes As it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. John 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. John 15:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. John 12:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. John 8:44 ESV / 3 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. Matthew 22:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 3 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. ... Proverbs 6:17-19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. Psalm 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. Revelation 13:8 ESV / 2 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. Revelation 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come! Revelation 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Revelation 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 2 John 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. 2 John 1:1-13 ESV / 2 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 ladynot as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginningthat we love one another. ... 1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ... 2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes 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. Hebrews 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. Hebrews 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions. 2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 2 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, Galatians 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. Acts 5:1-11 ESV / 2 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 21:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Feed my lambs. He said to him a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Tend my sheep. He said to him the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? and he said to him, Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. John 16:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. John 15:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. John 15:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. John 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

John 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. Luke 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ... Matthew 10:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:45 ESV / 2 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. Matthew 5:43 ESV / 2 helpful votes You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. Malachi 1:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, says the Lord. But you say, How have you loved us? Is not Esau Jacob's brother? declares the Lord. Yet I have loved Jacob but

Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert. If Edom says, We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins, the Lord of hosts says, They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called the wicked country, and the people with whom the Lord is angry forever. Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, Great is the Lord beyond the border of Israel! Amos 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Amos 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. Jeremiah 31:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ... Psalm 147:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. 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 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; Deuteronomy 21:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, Leviticus 19:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. Exodus 17:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, saying, A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. Genesis 25:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Esau said, I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me? Romans 13:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote For the commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Romans 9:10-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or badin 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. Romans 9:6-13 ESV / 1 helpful vote But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but Through Isaac shall your offspring be named. This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. For this is what the promise said: About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son. And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, ... Romans 8:29 ESV / 1 helpful vote For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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 7:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Acts 25:7-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him that they could not prove. Paul argued in his defense, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense. Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 1 helpful vote Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ. And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. ... Acts 13:48 ESV / 1 helpful vote 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. John 17:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Proverbs 6:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: Love And Jealousy 1 John 4:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 8 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; Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Romans 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Romans 13:8-14 ESV / 4 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. Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. ... 1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 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. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 3 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. Romans 12:1-2 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. 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 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. John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 1 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king. Exodus 20:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's. Revelation 20:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 1 John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ... 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ... Love And Relationships 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 37 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; ... Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 30 helpful votes But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, selfcontrol; against such things there is no law. Genesis 29:18-20 ESV / 28 helpful votes Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel. Laban said, It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me. So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her. Romans 12:2 ESV / 23 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. Matthew 22:37-40 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. 1 John 4:16 ESV / 20 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. Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 17 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. Mark 12:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Romans 12:9-11 ESV / 13 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. John 13:34-35 ESV / 12 helpful votes A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 10 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? ... Romans 13:1 ESV / 9 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. Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Matthew 19:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes And said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 6 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; ... Deuteronomy 30:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. James 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well. Liers 1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. Hosea 9:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. 1 John 2:3-4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says I know him but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. Revelation 18:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; 2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 ESV / 6 helpful votes Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 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. Joshua 8:1-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes And the Lord said to Joshua, Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land. And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it. So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night. And he commanded them, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready. And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them. ... Exodus 20:2-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity

of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Revelation 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. John 6:67-71 ESV / 5 helpful votes So Jesus said to the Twelve, Do you want to go away as well? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil. He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him. John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 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. ... Hosea 10:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah? 2 Samuel 2:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Then Abner called to Joab, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers? 1 Samuel 9:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Saul answered, Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way? Judges 20:1-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah. And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword. (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, Tell us, how did this evil happen? And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my

concubine, to spend the night. And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead. ... Judges 19:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go. ... Judges 18:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them. So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, Go and explore the land. And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here? And he said to them, This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest. And they said to him, Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed. ... Judges 16:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Then Samson called to the Lord and said, O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes. Judges 14:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house. Judges 13:1-16:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines. ...

Judges 12:8-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem. 1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ... Romans 14:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. Malachi 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts. Judges 19:22-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing. Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing. But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light. ... Judges 10:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir. Judges 9:1-57 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family, Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, He is our

brother. And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. ... Judges 7:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. The Lord said to Gideon, The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, My own hand has saved me. Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead. Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained. And the Lord said to Gideon, The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, This one shall go with you, shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, This one shall not go with you, shall not go. So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink. ... Judges 5:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day: That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord! Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the Lord I will sing; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel. Lord, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water. The mountains quaked before the Lord, even Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel. ... Judges 4:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. Judges 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot. Judges 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. Judges 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. Judges 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. Judges 4:1-5:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. ... Judges 4:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died. And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. ... Judges 3:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel. Judges 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely. Judges 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. Judges 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire. Joshua 21:1-45 ESV / 3 helpful votes Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock. So by command of the Lord the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance. The lot came out for the clans of

the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities. And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. ... Joshua 11:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. Joshua 11:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. Joshua 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, Joshua 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho. Revelation 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly. 3 John 1:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. 1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says I know him but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ... 1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation if indeed you have tasted that the

Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ... 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering ... 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes While people are saying, There is peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ... Philippians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Galatians 2:11-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews? We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; ... 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to youunless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 10:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ... 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ... 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ... 1 Corinthians 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. ... Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ... Acts 13:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. Luke 14:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. Luke 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ... Matthew 18:15-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ... Song of Solomon 3:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not. I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not. The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. Have you seen him whom

my soul loves? Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. ... Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ... Psalm 68:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. Esther 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment, 1 Chronicles 10:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes But when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, 1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ... 2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness. But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die. So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, Why have you returned? ... 1 Kings 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. 2 Samuel 20:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall. 2 Samuel 20:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Joab answered, Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy! 2 Samuel 13:11-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister. She answered him, No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you. But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Get up! Go! ... 2 Samuel 5:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you offthinking, David cannot come in here. Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David. And David said on that day, Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul. Therefore it is said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. 2 Samuel 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill. 2 Samuel 2:4-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul, David sent messengers to the men of Jabeshgilead and said to them, May you be blessed by the Lord, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him. Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing. Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them. 2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I have escaped from the camp of Israel. And David said to him, How did it go? Tell me. And he answered, The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead. Then David said to the young man who told him, How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead? ... 1 Samuel 14:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies. So none of the people had tasted food. 1 Samuel 11:1-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you. But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel. The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you. When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud. Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping? So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh. ... 1 Samuel 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the Lord appeared again at Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord. 1 Samuel 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. ... Judges 21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Judges 21:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty. And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them. Judges 21:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes So they said, Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah. Judges 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters. For the people of Israel had sworn, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin. Judges 21:12-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them. And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them. And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? ... Judges 21:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction. And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. Judges 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah? And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly. Judges 21:7-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives? And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not

come up to the Lord to Mizpah? And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly. For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction. ... Judges 21:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives? Judges 21:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the people of Israel said, Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord? For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. Judges 21:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin. And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel? And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And the people of Israel said, Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord? For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death. ... Judges 20:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months. Judges 20:1-21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah. And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword. (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, Tell us, how did this evil happen? And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead. ... Judges 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 19:12-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And his master said to him, We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah. And he said to his young man, Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah. So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night. And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites. ... Judges 19:5-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go. So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry. And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again. Judges 19:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go. So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry. And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again. And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl's father said, Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines. So they ate, both of them. Judges 19:1-21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go. ... Judges 18:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh. Judges 18:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. Judges 18:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it. Judges 18:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people. Judges 18:14-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do. And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare. Now the 600 men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate. And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war. And when these went into Micah's house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing? ... Judges 18:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth. Judges 18:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. Judges 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the priest said to them, Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord. Judges 18:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, Go and explore the land. And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. Judges 17:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.

Judges 17:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Micah said to him, Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living. And the Levite went in. Judges 17:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest. Judges 17:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you. So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah. Judges 17:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he said to his mother, The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son by the Lord. And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you. Judges 17:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. And he said to his mother, The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son by the Lord. Judges 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years. Judges 16:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. Judges 16:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them. Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained. Judges 16:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them. Judges 16:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us. Judges 16:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison. Judges 16:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes And she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And he awoke from his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times and shake myself free. But he did not know that the Lord had left him. Judges 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. Judges 16:18-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up again, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands. She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. And she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And he awoke from his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times and shake myself free. But he did not know that the Lord had left him. And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison. Judges 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up again, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands. Judges 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man. Judges 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies. Judges 16:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web. Judges 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then Delilah said to Samson, Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound. And he said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man. Judges 16:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread. Judges 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound. Judges 16:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known. Judges 16:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man. Judges 16:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver. Judges 16:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. Judges 16:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron. Judges 16:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Gazites were told, Samson has come here. And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him. Judges 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her. The Gazites were told, Samson has come here. And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him. But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron. After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver. ... Judges 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men. Judges 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes And they said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves. Judges 15:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire. Judges 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. Judges 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. Judges 15:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And her father said, I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead. Judges 14:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man. Judges 14:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle. Judges 14:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us? And Samson's wife wept over him and said, You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you? She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle. Judges 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion. Judges 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. Judges 14:1-16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. Then he came up and told his father and mother, I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife. But his father and mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes. His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring. ... Judges 14:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. Then he came up and told his father and mother, I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife. But his father and mother said to him, Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes. His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. Judges 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines. Judges 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. Judges 12:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years. Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. Judges 12:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years. Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. Judges 12:8-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem. After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years. Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. ... Judges 12:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes They said to him, Then say Shibboleth, and he said, Sibboleth, for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell. Judges 12:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire. And Jephthah said to them, I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand. And when I saw that you would

not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me? Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh. And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? When he said, No, ... Judges 11:39-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. Judges 11:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel Judges 11:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abelkeramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. Judges 11:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. Judges 11:30-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand. And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. ... Judges 11:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. Judges 11:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

Judges 11:29-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, Judges 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time? Judges 11:21-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess. Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them? ... Judges 11:14-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let us pass through your land, but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab. ... Judges 10:12-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand. Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more. Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress. And the people of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day. So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel. Judges 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. Judges 10:3-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. Judges 10:1-12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir. After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. ... Judges 9:54 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, A woman killed him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. Judges 9:46-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of Elberith. Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together. And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done. So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women. Judges 9:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of Elberith. Judges 9:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt. Judges 9:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. Judges 9:7-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you. The trees once went out to anoint a

king over them, and they said to the olive tree, Reign over us. But the olive tree said to them, Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees? And the trees said to the fig tree, You come and reign over us. But the fig tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees? ... Judges 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. Judges 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. Judges 8:33-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baalberith their god. And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side, and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel. Judges 8:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. Judges 8:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels. Judges 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Gideon said to them, Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) Judges 8:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian. Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you. Judges 8:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.

Judges 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic. Judges 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes And he said to the men of Penuel, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. Judges 8:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes And the officials of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army? So Gideon said, Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. And he said to the men of Penuel, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. Judges 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead. Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained. Judges 6:36-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Then Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said. And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. Then Gideon said to God, Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew. And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew. Lost Christians 1 John 1:9 ESV / 8 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 4:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ... Amos 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.