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Acknowledging God
- If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.1 John 4:15
- Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.Hebrews 10:23
- And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.Philippians 2:11Godobedience - I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”Lamentations 3:24hopematerialism - For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.Romans 10:10faithspeakingsalvation
- It is written: ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’Romans 14:11humilityworshippraise - Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.1 Timothy 6:12eternal lifefaithovercoming
- If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.Romans 10:9faithspeakingJesus
- Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave the guilt of my sin.Psalm 32:5confessionsinforgiveness - Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.Psalm 24:10worshipkingdom - The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.Revelation 3:5overcomingpromisesheaven
- No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.1 John 2:23JesusFatherconfession
Addiction
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.1 Corinthians 6:12desiresliferighteousness
- No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationdesires
- Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.Matthew 26:41prayertemptationdesires
- For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionslavery
- It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.Galatians 5:1Jesusliferedeemer
- Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.James 4:7obediencesafetydevil
- For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
- For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.1 John 2:16desiresprideworld
- Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”John 8:34sinslavery
- Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.James 1:3faithtemptation
- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil - So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.John 8:36Jesusredeemerfreedom
- You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.Matthew 5:13sinobedienceevangelism
- To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”John 8:31-32truthWord of Godfollowing
- Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.1 Corinthians 6:19-20worshipSpiritlife
- Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.Romans 13:14desiresJesusbody
Almighty
- Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, Lord, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11worshipkingdomstrength
- I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
- For no word from God will ever fail.
- “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:8eternal lifereliabilityGod
- Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
- Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.
Psalm 80:19salvationdependencelight
- Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
his greatness no one can fathom.
Psalm 145:3worshipunderstandingpraise
- Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Jeremiah 32:17creationstrengthheaven
- Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.
1 Chronicles 29:12strengthmoney
- For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39lovemediatordeath
- For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1:20creationstrengthmind
- The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.
- Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
Ephesians 6:10Godstrengthseeking
- Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17worshipkingdomGod
- You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4salvationovercomingprophecy
- He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
- The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7moneyhumilitydependence
- I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.
- Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
Psalm 139:4speakingunderstanding
- “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
- The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Angels
- Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:53protectionJesusFather
- Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:1-2lovegentlenessneighbor
- For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17salvationdeathheaven
- For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39lovemediatordeath
- But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”
- The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”
Matthew 28:5-6SaviorJesuseaster
- If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1lovespeaking
- Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.
Luke 2:14christmaspeaceworship
- In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Luke 15:10joyrepentanceconversion
- But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.”
Luke 1:30-31Jesusfearchristmas
- The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
Revelation 3:5overcomingpromisesheaven
- 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 1:10-11ascensionsecond comingheaven
- Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:
He appeared in the flesh,
was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
was taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16JesusSpiritevangelism
- But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.”
Matthew 1:20Holy Spiritchristmas
Anger
- “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5lovepatienceselfishness
- Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:17-18lovegentleness
- Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers over all wrongs.
- My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
James 1:19speakinglisteningself-control
- A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1speakinggentleness
- Whoever is patient has great understanding,
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29wisdompatienceunderstanding
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
- Fools give full vent to their rage,
but the wise bring calm in the end.
Proverbs 29:11wisdomself-control
- Fools show their annoyance at once,
but the prudent overlook an insult.
Proverbs 12:16self-controlwisdom
- Where there is strife, there is pride,
but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
- It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel.
- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will frown on you no longer,
for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will not be angry forever.’
Jeremiah 3:12bmercyforgivenessgrace
Ascension
- After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
- When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
Luke 24:50-51Jesusblessingheaven
- 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 1:10-11second comingheavenJesus
- After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
- I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.
- My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
- Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:
He appeared in the flesh,
was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
was taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16JesusSpiritangels
- Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.”
- Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
- Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
- Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
Acts 2:33Holy SpiritpentecostJesus
Awe
- To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
- Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
2 Corinthians 7:1purificationholinesspromises
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- Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body
and nourishment to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7-8blessingevilhealth
- But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.
- Humility is the fear of the Lord;
its wages are riches and honor and life.
- And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
Deuteronomy 10:12-13lawblessingserving
- Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great wealth with turmoil.
Proverbs 15:16moneymaterialism
- Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
who walk in obedience to him.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
Deuteronomy 13:4listeningfollowingidols
- Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
- Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the Lord,
and humility comes before honor.
- But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
Malachi 4:2joyrighteousnesshealing
- And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10wisdomholinessunderstanding
- Praise the Lord.
Blessed are those who fear the Lord,
who find great delight in his commands.
- Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
To him belongs eternal praise.
- Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- May God bless us still,
so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29lawobedienceblessing
- Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
Acts 9:31churchpeaceHoly Spirit
- Teach me your way, Lord,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11learningtruthreliability
- Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
Deuteronomy 8:6obediencelawfollowing
Baptism
- So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Galatians 3:26-27faithchildrenclothing
- Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20evangelismlearningHoly Spirit
- And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:21salvationpurificationresurrection
- Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 2:38forgivenessSpiritconversion
- Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16faithsalvationjudgment
- Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”
- And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.
- Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
- For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13Spiritcommunityslavery
- And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
John 1:33JesusSpiritHoly Spirit
- Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.
- On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
Acts 19:5-6Holy Spiritprophecy
- Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
- Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Acts 2:41faithWord of Godchurch
- He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5salvationHoly Spiritrebirth
Beauty
- Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, 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.
1 Peter 3:3-4humilityheartclothing
- You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
there is no flaw in you.
Song of songs 4:7relationshipsmarriage
- Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
- But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14creationmiraclessoul
- I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
1 Timothy 2:9-10worshipmaterialismgoodness
- Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16encouragementreceivingbody
- The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.
Isaiah 40:8reliabilityGodWord of God
- For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10creationJesusfollowing
- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Blameless
- The one whose walk is blameless,
who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from their heart;
whose tongue utters no slander,
who does no wrong to a neighbor,
and casts no slur on others.
- We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
- Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.
Philippians 2:14-16aholinessWord of Godlife
- Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
1 Thessalonians 5:15righteousnessevil
- And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
- As for God, his way is perfect:
The Lord’s word is flawless;
he shields all who take refuge in him.
Psalm 18:30Word of Godprotection
- I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
1 Corinthians 1:10communityfamilytransformation
- Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Psalm 119:1lawrighteousnesslife
- But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
My feet have closely followed his steps;
I have kept to his way without turning aside.
- Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
John 16:24reliabilityjoyreceiving
- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
Proverbs 2:7righteousnessblessingprotection
- As for God, his way is perfect:
The Lord’s word is flawless;
he shields all who take refuge in him.
2 Samuel 22:31Word of Godprotection
- Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17reliabilityFatherlight
- Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Matthew 19:21givingmaterialismheaven
- And, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
Hebrews 5:9salvationSavioreternal life
- I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
Blessing
- But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8trustfruitfulness
- The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26gracepeacelight
- May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.
- Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.
Proverbs 16:3trustplanningwork
- For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11planninghopepromises
- And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
- Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.
Exodus 23:25worshipsicknesshealth
- Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
- For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
- The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters.
- Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
- Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,
and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
- How abundant are the good things
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you bestow in the sight of all,
on those who take refuge in you.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
- Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23lawSpiritgentleness
- If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6righteousnessreceivingfood
- The blessing of the Lord brings wealth,
without painful toil for it.
Proverbs 10:22moneydependencework
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
- And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8worryinggoodnesswork
- “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”
- Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart.
- Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
- His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Matthew 25:21reliabilityrewardserving
- A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
- Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
- Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers.
- The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
Habakkuk 3:19strengthequipment
- For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
- Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body
and nourishment to your bones.
- May God bless us still,
so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.
- He who finds a wife finds what is good
and receives favor from the Lord.
- You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9:11generositygratitudegiving
- Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
- Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
- May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Corinthians 13:14graceHoly SpiritGod
- For the Lord takes delight in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.
- I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.
- The Lord gives strength to his people;
the Lord blesses his people with peace.
- I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
Psalm 34:1worshipspeakingpraise
- Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21peacecovenantresurrection
- The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.
- From the Lord comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.
- Observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go.
- The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21speakingself-controlfruitfulness
- And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
Deuteronomy 10:12-13lawaweserving
- Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
- Blessings crown the head of the righteous,
but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:6righteousnessspeaking
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
- Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
- Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
- When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
Luke 24:50-51Jesusheavenascension
- Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- “If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.”
- Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.
- The name of the righteous is used in blessings,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
- He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
Proverbs 2:7righteousnessprotectionblameless
- But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
James 1:25lawlisteningobedience
- Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love.
- Listen, my son, accept what I say,
and the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:10Word of Godobediencelaw
- If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
Leviticus 26:3-4obediencelawharvest
- And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
- “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30evangelismpersecutioneternal life
- Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
- So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
- Lord, save us!
Lord, grant us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
From the house of the Lord we bless you.
Psalm 118:25-26easterovercomingsalvation
- Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
- After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
- What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
- Blessed is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
- God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 1:28creationworldfruitfulness
- Blessed is the one whom God corrects;
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.
Genesis 26:4-5listeningobediencelaw
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- Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40lawobediencelife
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew 5:11persecutionevilgossip
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29lawobediencechildren
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
Blood
- For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14salvationdevilJesus
- In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
Ephesians 1:7sinSaviorforgiveness
- But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1:7purificationsacrificecommunity
- Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21peacecovenantresurrection
- For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
1 Peter 1:18-19SaviorJesuslife
- But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
- How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
Hebrews 9:14JesusSpiritpurification
- “Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.”
Isaiah 1:18sinforgivenesspurification
- In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
- Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
Body
- Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20worshipSpiritlife
- For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 12:4-5Jesuscommunitydependence
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14creationmiraclessoul
- My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26strengthlifedependence
- So then, banish anxiety from your heart
and cast off the troubles of your body,
for youth and vigor are meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 11:10sadnessworryingheart
- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22healingheartsickness
- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15Jesuspeacegratitude
- Gracious words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24gentlenessspeakingsoul
- Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body
and nourishment to your bones.
- Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41prayertemptationdesires
- For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8healthobediencelife
- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
- No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:27self-controljudgment
- Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:22-24marriagecreation
- There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called.
Ephesians 4:4Spirithopecalling
- Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
- Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
Luke 12:22b-23worryingfoodlife
- We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
- If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Corinthians 5:1lifedeathheaven
- For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritcommunity
- Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23marriageJesussalvation
- If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3lovesufferinggiving
- “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
1 Peter 2:24sinrighteousnesshealing
- Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12communitychurchJesus
- Bible Verses About Hope
- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.
- In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28relationshipsmarriage
- And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
- Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
Romans 13:14desiresaddictionJesus
- For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
- I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
Bread
- Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
- Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:4foodWord of Godlistening
- Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
- Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10righteousnessfoodgiving
- And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
- Give us today our daily bread.
- Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 2:46-47worshipfoodcommunity
- I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
- Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Luke 9:16-17miraclesfoodprayer
- He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3sufferingWord of Godlife
- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2:42communityprayerobedience
- One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
- Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Calling
- You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
John 15:16obedienceprayerfruitfulness
- The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24faithfulnessWord of Godpromises
- Bible Verses About Hope
- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
1 Corinthians 1:28-29humilityworldpride
- He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:14evangelism
- To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
1 Peter 2:21sufferingfollowingobedience
- I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.
2 Timothy 1:9graceholinesssalvation
- I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
- Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:10-11obediencekingdomreward
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9JesusreliabilityGod
- There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called.
- But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
- Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 2:38forgivenessSpiritbaptism
Children
- These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
- Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6righteousnessfamily
- Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
Isaiah 49:15-16lovefamilycompassion
- No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11righteousnesspeacepunishment
- Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
- Children’s children are a crown to the aged,
and parents are the pride of their children.
- Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
- Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.
- Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
- They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Acts 16:31faithsalvationfamily
- So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Galatians 3:26-27faithbaptismclothing
- A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,
but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
- For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
- I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
- Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8familyrelationships
- Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
- For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3purificationfamilyheaven
- The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
- The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
- Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40lawobedienceblessing
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29lawobedienceblessing
Christmas
- She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
- Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.
- But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”
- For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
- All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Matthew 1:22-23prophecymiraclesJesus
- Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14Jesusmiraclesprophecy
- The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
- So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
- But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.”
- For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.
- The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”
Luke 1:35Holy SpiritstrengthJesus
- But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.”
- This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:18Holy Spiritmiracles
- But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.
- After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
Church
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25second comingcommunityencouragement
- For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
Matthew 18:20Jesuscommunityprayer
- For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 12:4-5bodyJesuscommunity
- Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 3:16holinessHoly SpiritSpirit
- For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:9servingevangelism
- Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 2:46-47worshipfoodcommunity
- And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15Jesuspeacegratitude
- Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
Colossians 3:16Word of Godlearningworship
- Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:19-20Jesuskingdomprophecy
- All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17Word of Godlifeequipment
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26lovepurificationrelationships
- Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
- If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:17communityholinessprotection
- Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
James 5:14-15sicknessprayerfaith
- Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21humilityworshipstrength
- But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21faithHoly Spiritlove
- Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12bodycommunityJesus
- I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
Romans 16:17holinesscommunityevil
- Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9Jesuscallingreliability
- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2:42communityprayerobedience
- For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritcommunity
- So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
Acts 12:5prayerneighbordependence
- Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23marriageJesussalvation
- Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Acts 2:41faithbaptismWord of God
Clothing
- Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, 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.
1 Peter 3:3-4humilitybeautyheart
- I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
1 Timothy 2:9-10beautyworshipmaterialism
- Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12humilitygentlenesspatience
- So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Galatians 3:26-27faithbaptismchildren
- I delight greatly in the Lord;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10righteousnessjoyredeemer
- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
- The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
Revelation 3:5overcomingpromisesheaven
- Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
Luke 12:22b-23worryingfoodlife
- For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:7-8foodmaterialismcontentment
- Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
Matthew 7:15second comingprophecy
- Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
- John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
Luke 3:11materialismgivingpoverty
Comforter
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4sufferingworshipencouragement
- I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18JesusSpiritreliability
- When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought me joy.
- Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
- But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
John 14:26Holy SpiritFatherlearning
- But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
- And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
John 14:16Holy SpiritFatherpentecost
- When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord;
he brought me into a spacious place.
- I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you that you fear mere mortals,
human beings who are but grass.
- ‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’
Revelation 7:16-17encouragementprotectionsadness
- For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:5sufferingJesusencouragement
- When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
John 15:26Holy SpiritFatherJesus
- May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had.
Romans 15:5communityencouragementpatience
Community
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25second comingencouragementequipment
- For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 12:4-5bodyJesusdependence
- How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!
- For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
Matthew 18:20Jesusprayerchurch
- I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
1 Corinthians 1:10familytransformationblameless
- Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 3:8humilityneighborcompassion
- Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
- And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
- Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Romans 12:16humilitydependencecontentment
- Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
- May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had.
Romans 15:5encouragementpatiencecomforter
- All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
- But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1:7purificationsacrificelight
- There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28Jesusunderstandingslavery
- I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
Romans 16:17holinessevilchurch
- Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.
- Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.
- They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
1 Corinthians 12:13baptismSpiritslavery
- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
Acts 12:5prayerneighbordependence
- Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
- Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12bodychurchJesus
- Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 3:16holinessHoly SpiritSpirit
- If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:17churchholinessprotection
- And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
Compassion
- Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32forgivenessgoodnessreconciliation
- Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23reliabilitylovefaithfulness
- Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 3:8humilitycommunityneighbor
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4sufferingworshipencouragement
- Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12humilitygentlenesspatience
- Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
- This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
Zechariah 7:9-10evilrighteousnessneighbor
- If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
- Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
Isaiah 49:15-16lovefamilychildren
- As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
- Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 30:18gracerighteousnesspatience
- For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.
Hebrews 4:15sintemptationweakness
- “Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10lovepeacereliability
- I will strengthen Judah
and save the tribes of Joseph.
I will restore them
because I have compassion on them.
They will be as though
I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God
and I will answer them.
Zechariah 10:6strengthprayerlistening
Confession
- Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
James 5:16righteousnesshealingprayer
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13sinmercyforgiveness
- Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Psalm 32:5sinforgivenessacknowledging
- When anyone becomes aware that they are guilty in any of these matters, they must confess in what way they have sinned.
- Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Acts 3:19conversionsinforgiveness
- For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
Romans 10:10faithspeakingsalvation
- When I kept silent,
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
- We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.
- For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
- If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8sinpurificationrighteousness
- Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12eternal lifefaithovercoming
- No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1 John 2:23JesusFatheracknowledging
Contentment
- I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
- For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:7-8foodmaterialismworld
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5trustmoneymaterialism
- But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6faithjoymaterialism
- I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
Philippians 4:11trustdependence
- That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthpersecution
- Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8righteousnessmoneyhonesty
- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Romans 12:16humilitycommunitydependence
- Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”
Luke 12:15moneygreedmaterialism
- Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
- Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
Luke 12:22b-23worryingfoodlife
- At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Job 1:20-21worshipsufferingsadness
Conversion
- 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 I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14humilityforgivenesshealing
- For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9bgracerepentanceforgiveness
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
- The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9salvationpatiencerepentance
- For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Ezekiel 18:32deatheternal liferighteousness
- Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Acts 3:19sinforgivenessrepentance
- Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.
- Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 2:38forgivenessSpiritbaptism
- Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Matthew 3:8repentancelifefruitfulness
- I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:17Jesusevangelismheaven
- Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
James 1:21salvationWord of Godevil
- I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22sinsalvationredeemer
- Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Isaiah 55:7righteousnessforgivenesslife
- “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Mark 1:15kingdomrepentancefaith
- “Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
- ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 1:3brepentancereliabilityobedience
- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Revelation 3:19lovelifepunishment
- But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
- In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
- Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
- Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
Romans 6:13sinrighteousnesssacrifice
- In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Acts 17:30repentanceforgiveness
- Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Galatians 6:1sintemptationdesires
- Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 15:34righteousnesssinunderstanding
- Repent at my rebuke!
Then I will pour out my thoughts to you,
I will make known to you my teachings.
Proverbs 1:23repentancewisdomSpirit
- I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
- Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
- Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:9-10lyinglifetransformation
- Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7widowsorphansblessing
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.
Acts 3:26resurrectionJesusblessing
Courage
- The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Deuteronomy 31:8followingfearencouragement
- Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9Godfearencouragement
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4sufferingworshipencouragement
- Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13faithstrengthencouragement
- Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24hopeencouragementheart
- Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4fearencouragementdeath
- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:27encouragementpeaceworrying
- For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
- Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:6reliabilityfearprotection
- Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
- But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
Covenant
- I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
- Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
Deuteronomy 7:9reliabilitylawGod
- The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Deuteronomy 31:8followingfearencouragement
- But from everlasting to everlasting
the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.
Psalm 103:17-18reliabilitylawfamily
- For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
- Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine.
Exodus 19:5obediencevaluableworld
- Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21peaceresurrectionblessing
- But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
Hebrews 8:6Jesusmediatorpromises
- I made a covenant with my eyes
not to look lustfully at a young woman.
Job 31:1desiresself-controlthoughts
- He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
- I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
- “Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10lovepeacereliability
- In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
- Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28fastingnearnesslaw
Creation
- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2SpiritheavenHoly Spirit
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14miraclessoulbeauty
- For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
- For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
- Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
- Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Jeremiah 32:17strengthheavenalmighty
- For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
- I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2encouragementdependence
- For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10Jesusfollowingbeauty
- So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
- Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
Isaiah 40:28wisdomunderstanding
- By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
- Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
- For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
- He builds his lofty palace in the heavens
and sets its foundation on the earth;
he calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land—
the Lord is his name.
- The Lord has done it this very day;
let us rejoice today and be glad.
- He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11understandinglifedependence
- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17Jesusrebirth
- Our help is in the name of the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
- Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
Revelation 5:13worshipgratitudepraise
- ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
- He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
- The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:18marriagerelationships
- Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker,
those who are nothing but potsherds
among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
‘What are you making?’
Does your work say,
‘The potter has no hands’?
Isaiah 45:9humilityunderstanding
- Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
- Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
- Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians 8:6FatherlifeJesus
- Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”.
- And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 1:28blessingworldfruitfulness
Crucifixion
- “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
1 Peter 2:24sinrighteousnesshealing
- Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:4sufferingJesussickness
- Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”
Matthew 28:5-6SaviorJesuseaster
- For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18salvationstrength
- I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
- Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:6-8SaviorobedienceJesus
- Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:38sufferingJesusfollowing
- We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!
Matthew 20:18-19easterJesussacrifice
- He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’
Luke 24:6-7Jesusresurrectioneaster
- “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.”
Mark 16:6Jesusresurrectioneaster
- For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Romans 6:5-6sinresurrectionaddiction
- Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
- For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2evangelismJesusmind
- “Look, he is coming with the clouds,”
and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him”;
and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.”
So shall it be! Amen.
Revelation 1:7Jesussecond coming
- Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
Mark 8:34salvationJesusfollowing
Death
- Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26faithresurrectionpromises
- If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
- For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17salvationheavenangels
- Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4fearencouragementpersecution
- For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
- Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him,
we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:11Word of Godeternal lifereliability
- Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.
- For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39lovemediatorangels
- For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:22salvationlife
- For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Ezekiel 18:32conversioneternal liferighteousness
- And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Revelation 21:3-4Godsadnessworrying
- I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
- For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
1 Corinthians 15:21Jesusresurrection
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
- Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
- In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
Luke 16:23-24hellheavensuffering
- Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
- For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Corinthians 5:1bodylifeheaven
- Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
- Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:6resurrectionkingdomMessiah
- Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
Joshua 23:14reliabilityheartsoul
- You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Debt
- Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
- The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously.
Psalm 37:21moneyrighteousnessgiving
- Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
- Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
- Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
- For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
- The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7moneyslaverypoverty
- And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- Dishonest money dwindles away,
but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
- Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act.
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5trustmoneymaterialism
- No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 6:24servingmoneymaterialism
Dependence
- For I am the Lord your God
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.
- Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6trustheartequipment
- Bible Verses About Hope
- In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps.
- My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26strengthlifeweakness
- I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2creationencouragement
- Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21planningunderstanding
- I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5rewardJesusfruitfulness
- He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40:29strengthequipmentgenerosity
- I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
Philippians 4:11trustcontentment
- He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber.
- Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Romans 12:16humilitycommunitycontentment
- The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters.
- I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14patienceprotection
- Unless the Lord builds the house,
the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the guards stand watch in vain.
- The blessing of the Lord brings wealth,
without painful toil for it.
Proverbs 10:22moneyblessingwork
- When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
- But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.
- When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord;
he brought me into a spacious place.
- Keep me safe, my God,
for in you I take refuge.
- Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
- It was not by their sword that they won the land,
nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
and the light of your face, for you loved them.
- Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.
Psalm 80:19salvationalmightylight
- For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Romans 12:4-5bodyJesuscommunity
- When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.
- Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
who daily bears our burdens.
- In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
Psalm 31:1righteousnessredeemer
- Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
- But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
- He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11creationunderstandinglife
- Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
Psalm 130:1-2listeningmercygrace
- From the Lord comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.
- The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7moneyalmightyhumility
- At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Job 1:20-21worshipsufferingsadness
- So that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.
- So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
Acts 12:5prayerneighborcommunity
- Give us today our daily bread.
- Our God is in heaven;
he does whatever pleases him.
Desire
- So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5sinmaterialismidols
- You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
- Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched?
- The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
1 John 2:17eternal lifeobedienceworld
- But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2marriagerelationships
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21materialismmoneyheart
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12addictionliferighteousness
- I made a covenant with my eyes
not to look lustfully at a young woman.
Job 31:1self-controlcovenantthoughts
- Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
- Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8persecutionovercomingdevil
- You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Galatians 5:13freedomhumilityserving
- For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:16addictionprideworld
- No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationaddiction
- As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
- Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41prayertemptationaddiction
- When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
James 1:13temptationunderstanding
- Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
- Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter 1:4rewardworldpromises
- For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
- All day long he craves for more,
but the righteous give without sparing.
Proverbs 21:26greedgivingmaterialism
- Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
- Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Galatians 6:1sintemptationconversion
- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13temptationevilprotection
- What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
- You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.
- You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-28marriageheartsin
- Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control.
- And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4workneighbormaterialism
- ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:18b-19lawlovefamily
- If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
- As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
Ecclesiastes 5:11materialismmoney
- Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
Romans 13:14addictionJesusbody
- Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
- You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Devil
- Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8desirespersecutionovercoming
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:11equipmentevilprotection
- Bible Verses About Hope
- For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 6:12Spiritheavenevil
- But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3reliabilitysafetystrength
- Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7obediencesafetyaddiction
- “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
- The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
- Direct my footsteps according to your word;
let no sin rule over me.
- No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationaddiction
- You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
- Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Ephesians 6:13protectioneviltemptation
- The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job 1:12protectionalmightyevil
- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
- My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14salvationJesusblood
- Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:5marriageself-control
- Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
- Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
Luke 4:1-2fastingtemptationJesus
Easter
- The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”
Matthew 28:5-6SaviorJesusresurrection
- He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’
Luke 24:6-7Jesusresurrectioncrucifixion
- “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.”
Mark 16:6Jesusresurrectioncrucifixion
- They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said.
Matthew 27:28-29sacrificesuffering
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:3hoperesurrectionrebirth
- When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
- We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!
Matthew 20:18-19Jesussacrificeresurrection
- The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,
“Hosanna to the Son of David!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
- Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
- “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Mark 14:36FatherJesussacrifice
- Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.
- Lord, save us!
Lord, grant us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
From the house of the Lord we bless you.
Psalm 118:25-26blessingovercomingsalvation
- Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
John 20:8-9miraclesresurrectionunderstanding
- Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!
Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you,
righteous and victorious,
lowly and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9prophecyhumilityrighteousness
- “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
1 Peter 2:24sinrighteousnesshealing
Encouragement
- Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11learningneighbor
- But those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31hopestrengthpromises
- Bible Verses About Hope
- When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.
- The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Deuteronomy 31:8followingfearsadness
- Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
- Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4sufferingworshipcomforter
- Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2creationdependence
- Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58obediencerewardwork
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25second comingcommunityequipment
- I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Psalm 32:8understandinglearning
- Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.
- Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13faithstrengthcourage
- I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
John 16:33peaceovercomingworld
- All hard work brings a profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23reliabilityspeakingpoverty
- Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4feardeathpersecution
- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
- Since you are precious and honored in my sight,
and because I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you,
nations in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 43:4lovesalvationvaluable
- For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
2 Corinthians 4:17eternal lifesufferingreward
- What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had.
Romans 15:5communitypatiencecomforter
- May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
- Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
Romans 15:2selfishnessneighbor
- Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
2 Corinthians 8:12givinggenerosity
- Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16beautyreceivingbody
- I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you that you fear mere mortals,
human beings who are but grass.
- My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
Colossians 2:2Jesusloveunderstanding
- ‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’
Revelation 7:16-17protectionsadnesscomforter
- I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong— that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
Romans 1:11-12friendshipstrengthfaith
- For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
Equipment
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25second comingcommunityencouragement
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:11evilprotectionidols
- Bible Verses About Hope
- All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17Word of Godlifeserving
- So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10fearstrengthworrying
- Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6trustdependenceheart
- I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8dependenceprotection
- He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40:29strengthdependencegenerosity
- How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word.
Psalm 119:9holinessWord of God
- Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4reliabilityprotection
- The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
- In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
Romans 8:26speakingSpiritprayer
- For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
Colossians 2:9-10Jesusstrength
- Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
- Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
- On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.”
Eternal
- And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25second comingcommunityencouragement
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:11evilprotectionidols
- Bible Verses About Hope
- All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17Word of Godlifeserving
- So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10fearstrengthworrying
- Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6trustdependenceheart
- I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8dependenceprotection
- He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40:29strengthdependencegenerosity
- How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word.
Psalm 119:9holinessWord of God
- Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4reliabilityprotection
- The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
- In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
Romans 8:26speakingSpiritprayer
- For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
Colossians 2:9-10Jesusstrength
- Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
- Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
- On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.”
- Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
- ‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’
Revelation 7:16-17encouragementprotectionsadness
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him,
we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:11Word of Goddeathreliability
- For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Ezekiel 18:32conversiondeathrighteousness
- For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Corinthians 5:1bodylifedeath
- Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
- I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8faithrighteousnessreward
- But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
- But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21faithHoly Spiritlove
- We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
1 John 5:20Jesusunderstandingtruth
- I will exalt you, my God the King;
I will praise your name for ever and ever.
- However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
- Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
1 Corinthians 9:25self-controlreward
- “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30evangelismblessingpersecution
- And, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
Hebrews 5:9salvationSaviorblameless
- Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Evangelism
- For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
- However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:15-16worshipgoodnesslight
- Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20baptismlearningHoly Spirit
- For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
- Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
Psalm 105:1speakingworshippraise
- But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.
- Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
- You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14righteousnesslifelight
- Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:1-2faithsalvation
- The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free.
- He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
- In that day you will say:
“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.”
Isaiah 12:4speakingworshippraise
- You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.
- By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
- You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
Matthew 5:13sinobedienceaddiction
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:17Jesusconversionheaven
- “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30blessingpersecutioneternal life
- This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:8Fatherfollowingfruitfulness
- Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
2 Timothy 4:2punishmentpatience
- But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8Spiritstrengthpentecost
- To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
- For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2Jesusmindcrucifixion
- But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9salvationholinesslight
- Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
- Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
- “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
- For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:9servingchurch
- Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”
Acts 10:34-35obediencerighteousness
- But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:22-23sufferingresurrectionSavior
- Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:
He appeared in the flesh,
was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
was taken up in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16JesusSpiritangels
- You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
- As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
Evil
- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21goodnessovercomingidols
- The Lord will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:11equipmentprotectionidols
- I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.
Romans 16:17holinesscommunitychurch
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
- For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 6:12Spiritheavenself-control
- To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
- You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
1 Thessalonians 5:15blamelessrighteousness
- “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
Ephesians 4:26-27sinangerdevil
- But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22understandingprophecy
- Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
- Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.
This will bring health to your body
and nourishment to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7-8aweblessinghealth
- Let those who love the Lord hate evil,
for he guards the lives of his faithful ones
and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 97:10reliabilityredeemerfreedom
- Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers over all wrongs.
- My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
- The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
2 Timothy 4:18protectionheavenworship
- This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
Zechariah 7:9-10righteousnessneighborgentleness
- Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
- The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- Direct my footsteps according to your word;
let no sin rule over me.
Psalm 119:133sinfollowingdevil
- Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
James 1:21salvationWord of Godconversion
- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresprotection
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9sinpurificationrepentance
- But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth.
- For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12righteousnessprayerlistening
- Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
1 Corinthians 15:33goodnessfriendship
- Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
Luke 6:22blessingpersecutionJesus
- He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
- Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
1 Peter 2:16lifefreedomserving
- Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
- For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
1 Timothy 6:10moneygreeddesires
- Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
- Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”.
Ecclesiastes 12:1creationlifejoy
- Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:27righteousnessfollowingself-control
- Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.
- For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
- Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Ephesians 6:13protectiondeviltemptation
- Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7lovetruthprotection
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew 5:11blessingpersecutiongossip
- The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job 1:12devilprotectionalmighty
- Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
Zechariah 1:4conversionlistening
- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:12angerheartneighbor
- You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.