F – K
Faith
- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.
- Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- For we live by faith, not by sight.
- May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13SpirithopeHoly Spirit
- But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
- And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
- Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
- “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
- Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
- Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
- 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 11:25-26deathresurrectionpromises
- For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4Godovercomingrebirth
- If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
Matthew 21:22reliabilityprayer
- Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.
- But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11loverighteousness
- “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
- If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2loveprophecy
- 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.”
- I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
I have set my heart on your laws.
- 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 10:10speakingsalvationacknowledging
- And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.
Hebrews 11:11trustrewardfruitfulness
- Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13strengthcourageencouragement
- For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
Romans 1:17righteousnesssalvation
- 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.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16graceeternal lifeworld
- 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 5:14-15sicknessprayerhealing
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16salvationbaptismjudgment
- In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
- They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Acts 16:31salvationfamilychildren
- He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
- I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
- Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
- As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
Romans 10:11Word of Godreliability
- Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
Romans 10:17evangelismlistening
- 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.
Hebrews 12:2SaviorJesuscrucifixion
- 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 lifeovercomingacknowledging
- Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
- For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
2 Peter 1:5-7goodnessself-controlrelationships
- Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
- We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
2 Thessalonians 1:3lovegratitude
- Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
- For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
- 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.
Galatians 2:20Saviorlifeselfishness
- Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
- 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 10:9speakingJesusconfession
- Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”
- Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:10gentlenessneighborgoodness
- For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.
Philippians 1:29gracesufferingmercy
- But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6joymaterialismcontentment
- But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
Galatians 3:22sintrustpromises
- Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:5Jesusovercomingworld
- For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
- Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.”
Matthew 21:21speakingmiraclestrust
- For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:14Jesusresurrection
- 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.
- Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:4righteousnesslifereliability
- 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.
Romans 1:16evangelismsalvation
- Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
- 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 15:1-2evangelismsalvation
- But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.
Romans 3:21-22lawrighteousnessprophecy
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:6loveJesusvaluable
- 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.
- Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
- We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:15-16lawrighteousness
- Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
John 3:36eternal lifeobediencesalvation
- 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 1:20-21Holy SpiritloveJesus
- 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.”
Acts 19:4baptismconversionJesus
- 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 4:7-8righteousnessrewardjudgment
- 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.
- 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 1:11-12friendshipstrengthencouragement
- We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
- Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
- “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Mark 1:15kingdomconversionrepentance
- 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
- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Faithfulness
- But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3reliabilitysafetystrength
- 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 3:22-23reliabilitylovecompassion
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.
- Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23reliabilityhopeacknowledging
- The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24callingWord of Godpromises
- Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
you have done wonderful things,
things planned long ago.
Isaiah 25:1reliabilityGodworship
- Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34reliabilityworshipgratitude
- 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
- 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
- He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Psalm 91:4protectionreliabilitysafety
- May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
2 Thessalonians 3:5lovetransformationfollowing
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9Jesuscallingreliability
- The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:17reliabilityrighteousnessgoodness
- Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Psalm 40:11lovereliabilityprotection
- 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 he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:8righteousnessprotectionobedience
- 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 97:10reliabilityredeemerevil
- For the Lord loves the just
and will not forsake his faithful ones.
Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed;
the offspring of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 37:28eternal lifereliabilityrighteousness
- Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
Psalm 143:1reliabilityrighteousnessprayer
- See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:4righteousnesslifereliability
- Not to us, Lord, not to us
but to your name be the glory,
because of your love and faithfulness.
Psalm 115:1lovehumilityworship
- The Lord will vindicate me;
your love, Lord, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands.
Psalm 138:8reliabilityGodsafety
Family
- 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.
- They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Acts 16:31faithsalvationchildren
- 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 1:10communitytransformationblameless
- My son, keep your father’s command
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:20obediencelistening
- Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
- How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!
Psalm 133:1friendshipcommunity
- 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 49:15-16lovechildrencompassion
- 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 103:17-18reliabilitylawcovenant
- Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
- Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6righteousnesschildren
- Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
- 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 5:8relationshipschildren
- A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17friendshiprelationships
- Children’s children are a crown to the aged,
and parents are the pride of their children.
- One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us.
1 Kings 8:57nearnessreliability
- 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 3:2-3purificationheavenchildren
- But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15idolsfollowingserving
- If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
Luke 11:13Spiritprayergenerosity
- The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
- ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:19lovefriendshiprelationships
- A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
- My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed.
- Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—
better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Proverbs 27:10friendshipneighbor
- ‘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-19lawlovereliability
Fasting
- Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
- So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- “Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Joel 2:12conversionsadnessheart
- When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
- I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
- So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
- 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 4:1-2temptationJesusdevil
- While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- 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 34:28nearnesslawWord of God
- Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.
Father
- As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
Psalm 103:13lovefearcompassion
- 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.
- My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline,
and do not resent his rebuke,
because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
as a father the son he delights in.
Proverbs 3:11-12lovelearningpunishment
- But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
- I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
John 10:28-30eternal lifeJesus
- To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Philippians 4:20humilityworship
- Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
- A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,
but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
Proverbs 15:5wisdomchildrenmind
- Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
- Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”
- Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.
- Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- 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 1:17reliabilityblamelesslight
- Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
- 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 26:53protectionJesusangels
- He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
- Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
- For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- 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.
Isaiah 9:6MessiahJesuschristmas
- And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- 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?
- No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
- 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 8:6lifeJesuscreation
- But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
- Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 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 2:16desiresaddictionpride
- Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8:5learningpunishment
- Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
John 12:26servingfollowingJesus
- And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
John 14:16comforterHoly Spiritpentecost
- If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.
- This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:8followingevangelismfruitfulness
- “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Mark 14:36easterJesussacrifice
- To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21overcomingrewardheaven
- And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
Mark 11:25prayerforgivenesssin
- This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.’
Matthew 6:9-10prayerhumilityworld
- 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
- 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 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
- I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.
- But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
John 20:21peaceevangelismJesus
- 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 14:26comforterHoly Spiritlearning
- 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 Spiritpentecostascension
- 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.’”
- No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1 John 2:23Jesusacknowledgingconfession
- 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.
- But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
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- Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21obediencesalvationkingdom
- Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
- 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.
1 John 2:24listeningevangelismJesus
- 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.
Fear
- 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 41:10strengthworryingequipment
- When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
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- 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 1:9Godencouragementcourage
- Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7gratitudeprayerworrying
- 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.
- The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?
- There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
- 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 23:4encouragementdeathpersecution
- Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7worryingweaknesssadness
- For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7loveself-controlstrength
- Fear of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
- The Lord is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?
- 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 31:6reliabilityprotectioncourage
- I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
- 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 31:8followingencouragementsadness
- Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.
- 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.”
Romans 8:15Spiritchildrenslavery
- Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Matthew 10:29-31valuableFather
- So we say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?”
- 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.”
Mark 6:49-50miraclesJesuscourage
- Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.
- But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”
1 Peter 3:14righteousnesssuffering
- In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?
Psalm 56:4trustWord of Godpraise
- 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 1:30-31Jesusangelschristmas
- As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
- Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”
- 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.
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- I, even I, am he who comforts you.
Who are you that you fear mere mortals,
human beings who are but grass.
Isaiah 51:12comforterencouragement
- 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.
- Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.
- 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.
Luke 12:6-7valuableencouragement
- A person’s riches may ransom their life,
but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
Proverbs 13:8moneymaterialismpoverty
- But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”
Following
- Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Deuteronomy 5:33obediencereward
- 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 31:8fearencouragementsadness
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- Direct my footsteps according to your word;
let no sin rule over me.
- When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
2 Thessalonians 3:5lovetransformationfaithfulness
- 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 13:4awelisteningidols
- Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:38sufferingJesuscrucifixion
- 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 8:34salvationJesusselfishness
- Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
- Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.
- Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
- Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
who walk in obedience to him.
- To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
1 Peter 2:21sufferingcallingobedience
- The Lord makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him.
Psalm 37:23servingobediencetrust
- For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10creationJesusbeauty
- 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 Godaddiction
- And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17speakinggratitudework
- 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 19:21blamelessgivingmaterialism
- Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:27evilrighteousnessself-control
- In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
- By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15familyidolsserving
- 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
- This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:8Fatherevangelismfruitfulness
- I will hasten and not delay
to obey your commands.
- “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
- And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Ezekiel 36:27SpiritlawHoly Spirit
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- He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
- Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
- Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
Food
- For he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things.
- 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.”
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- So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31lifeworship
- The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
- Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
- Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.”
- A generous person will prosper;
whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:25generositygivingselfishness
- Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:4Word of Godlisteningbread
- 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.
- 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 6:7-8materialismcontentmentworld
- 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 9:16-17miraclesprayerbread
- 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?
Matthew 6:25lifeworryingbeauty
- Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Revelation 3:20obediencelisteningpromises
- Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
- Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17sabbathjudgmentJesus
- 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.
- Gracious words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24gentlenessspeakingsoul
- 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 2:46-47worshipcommunitypraise
- 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 9:10righteousnessgivinggenerosity
- I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6righteousnessblessingreceiving
- Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
- Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2:2salvationWord of Godrebirth
- 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
- But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- “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.”
Malachi 3:10blessinggivingharvest
- I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13joylifereceiving
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- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:8materialismmoneyreliability
- 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.
Philippians 4:12contentmentlifemoney
- 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-23worryinglifecontentment
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
1 Corinthians 10:23lawgoodnessrighteousness
- This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.
Ecclesiastes 5:18worklifereceiving
- 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.”
- Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:19moneyworkreceiving
- Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
Luke 12:24lifeworryingvaluable
- The vine is dried up
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree—
all the trees of the field—are dried up.
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away.
- 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.
- Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
- John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
Forgiveness
- Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
- Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32compassiongoodnessreconciliation
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- For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13peaceneighborreconciliation
- 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 7:14humilityhealingconversion
- Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
- Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
Matthew 18:21-22neighborsinmercy
- Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionmercy
- You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you.
- Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
- And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
- Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
- He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
- For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9bgracerepentanceconversion
- 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 32:5confessionsinacknowledging
- 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.
- In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
- And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Acts 3:19conversionsinrepentance
- 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 2:38Spiritbaptismconversion
- 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
- 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 55:7righteousnessconversionlife
- But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah 9:31gracemercynearness
- ‘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.’
- In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
- Blessed is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
- On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
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- But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
- If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.
Luke 17:3b-4sinrepentancespeaking
- For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.
- 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.
Matthew 12:32Holy SpiritJesuseternal life
- “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 1:18sinpurificationblood
- 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
- And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Freedom
- 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
- Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17SpiritHoly Spirit
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- So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36Jesusredeemeraddiction
- 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 5:13humilitydesiresserving
- “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 6:12addictiondesireslife
- I will walk about in freedom,
for I have sought out your precepts.
- The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners.
- The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Psalm 34:19righteousnesssufferingredeemer
- Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
- 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
- Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2lawjudgmentredeemer
- 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.
Romans 6:22redeemersinholiness
- 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.
Luke 4:18Spiritevangelismhealing
- 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 1:25lawblessinglistening
- God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing;
but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Psalm 68:6obediencefriendshippunishment
- What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
- 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 97:10reliabilityredeemerevil
- Help us, God our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.
- Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
Acts 13:38-39lawJesusforgiveness
Friendship
- A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17familyrelationships
- Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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- One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,
but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
- How good and pleasant it is
when God’s people live together in unity!
- If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
Ecclesiastes 4:10relationshipsneighbor
- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12relationshipsstrength
- A perverse person stirs up conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:28honestygossiplying
- Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
- As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17relationshipsmind
- Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:9relationshipswork
- Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
1 Corinthians 15:33evilgoodness
- Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—
better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
- You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
- 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 1:11-12strengthencouragementfaith
- ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:19lovefamilyrelationships
- God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing;
but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Psalm 68:6freedomobediencepunishment
Fruitfulness
- 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.
- 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 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
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- 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 15:16obedienceprayercalling
- Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Matthew 3:8conversionrepentancelife
- 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 15:5rewardJesusdependence
- This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:8Fatherfollowingevangelism
- Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
Habakkuk 3:17-18joysalvationworship
- The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Matthew 13:22Word of Godworryingmoney
- The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:21speakingblessingself-control
- Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:18righteousnesspeaceharvest
- So is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11Word of Godspeakingreliability
- 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 12:11righteousnesspeacechildren
- 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 26:3-4obediencelawblessing
- Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
Ephesians 5:11-12sinspeakingidols
- Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.”
- 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 1:28blessingcreationworld
- And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.
Generosity
- A generous person will prosper;
whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:25foodgivingselfishness
- Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7joygivingheart
- 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 9:11blessinggratitudegiving
- Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Luke 6:38rewardgivingreceiving
- Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
who conduct their affairs with justice.
- 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 8:12encouragementgiving
- 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
- Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
- He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Isaiah 40:29strengthdependenceequipment
- If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
- If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
2 Corinthians 9:6givingharvest
Gentleness
- Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
- Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12humilitypatiencecompassion
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- A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Colossians 4:5-6wisdomspeaking
- Gracious words are a honeycomb,
sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24speakingsoulfood
- 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 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
- 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.
- Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
- Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:10neighborgoodnessfaith
- 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 13:1-2loveneighborangels
- 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
- Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.
Giving
- Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7joyheartgenerosity
- 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.
1 Chronicles 29:14moneydependence
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- A gift opens the way
and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.
- A generous person will prosper;
whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:25generosityfoodselfishness
- 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 8:12encouragementgenerosity
- Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Luke 6:38rewardreceivinggenerosity
- Honor the Lord with your wealth,
with the firstfruits of all your crops.
Proverbs 3:9moneysacrificeharvest
- 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 9:10righteousnessfoodgenerosity
- 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 9:11generosityblessinggratitude
- 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 9:8blessingworryinggoodness
- Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act.
- “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.”
Malachi 3:10foodblessingharvest
- So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
- Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
- Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- All day long he craves for more,
but the righteous give without sparing.
Proverbs 21:26greedmaterialismdesires
- 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 19:21blamelessmaterialismheaven
- 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 13:3lovesufferingpride
- The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously.
Psalm 37:21debtmoneyrighteousness
- Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Matthew 10:8healingreceivingsickness
- Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
- But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9righteousnessspeakingwidows
- Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
2 Corinthians 9:6harvestgenerosity
- 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 3:11materialismpovertyneighbor
God
- The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17joyredeemersinging
- 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 1:9fearencouragementcourage
- 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.
- But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
- When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
- Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
you have done wonderful things,
things planned long ago.
Isaiah 25:1reliabilityworshippraise
- Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
- I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13strengthprotectionweakness
- We love because He first loved us.
- How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.
- For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
- Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
- And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1valuablebeautylight
- Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
Galatians 6:7righteousnessharvest
- For those who find me find life
and receive favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 8:35eternal lifewisdom
- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8planningwisdomthoughts
- Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
- There is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you;
there is no Rock like our God.
- I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing.”
- Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
- Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
- The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.
Isaiah 40:8reliabilityWord of Godbeauty
- I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
Jeremiah 32:27miraclesalmighty
- My salvation and my honor depend on God;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
- As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes 11:5understanding
- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- 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 7:9reliabilitylawcovenant
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- “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 lifereliabilitysecond coming
- The Lord will vindicate me;
your love, Lord, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands.
Psalm 138:8reliabilitysafetyfaithfulness
- For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4faithovercomingrebirth
- Our help is in the name of the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
- All this also comes from the Lord Almighty,
whose plan is wonderful,
whose wisdom is magnificent.
- One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
- Look to the Lord and his strength;
seek his face always.
- For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
- Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:39heavenworldidols
- But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.
- 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.
- This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31encouragementprotection
- Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalm 90:2creationunderstanding
- This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
- And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:11obedienceacknowledging
- He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
- You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
- For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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- Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
- Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
Ephesians 6:10strengthseekingalmighty
- 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.
Ezekiel 38:23holinessevangelism
- Unless the Lord builds the house,
the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the guards stand watch in vain.
- Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
Romans 11:33wisdomunderstanding
- 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 21:3-4sadnessworryingdeath
- “Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord.
“Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
- The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
the righteous run to it and are safe.
Proverbs 18:10safetyprotection
- The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
- You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
- No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- For who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?
Psalm 18:31reliabilitystrength
- The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
- Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17worshipalmightykingdom
- As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
- May God bless us still,
so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.
- The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9Jesuscallingreliability
- Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
- Who has done this and carried it through,
calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord—with the first of them
and with the last—I am he.
- While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
- So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
- He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
- The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.
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- 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 13:14graceblessingHoly Spirit
- You, Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures from generation to generation.
- But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
2 Peter 3:8second comingpatience
- Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
- I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
- The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
- This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 4:6SpiritstrengthHoly Spirit
- A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
- 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.”
- For who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?
2 Samuel 22:32reliabilityprotection
- I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.
- The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
Job 37:23righteousnessstrength
- Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- But I have been the Lord your God
ever since you came out of Egypt.
You shall acknowledge no God but me,
no Savior except me.
- 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.
- Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord.
- God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
Numbers 23:19reliabilitypromiseslying
- Our God is in heaven;
he does whatever pleases him.
Psalm 115:3heavendependenceunderstanding
- These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
Goodness
- Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32forgivenesscompassionreconciliation
- Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:10gentlenessneighborfaith
- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21evilovercomingidols
- The Lord is good,
a refuge in times of trouble.
He cares for those who trust in him.
Nahum 1:7protectionsafetytrust
- The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:17reliabilityrighteousnessfaithfulness
- Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
- 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 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
1 Corinthians 10:23lawrighteousnessfood
- 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 5:15-16evangelismworshiplight
- For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
2 Peter 1:5-7faithself-controlrelationships
- Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
- 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 9:8blessingworryingwork
- I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.
- What a person desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22reliabilitymoneypoverty
- Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
- Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
- Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
- This is what the Lord says:
“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”
- Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, Lord, are good.
- Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
1 Corinthians 15:33evilfriendship
- Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
Proverbs 2:9righteousnesshonesty
- Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
Titus 2:14sacrificepurificationsin
- 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
Gossip
- A perverse person stirs up conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:28honestyfriendshiplying
- 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.
Psalm 15:2-3truthblamelesslying
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- A gossip betrays a confidence,
but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11:13reliabilityspeakinglying
- Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29speakinggoodness
- With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
but through knowledge the righteous escape.
Proverbs 11:9righteousnessspeakingwisdom
- Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips
and spreads slander is a fool.
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew 5:11blessingpersecutionevil
- Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
- Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10sinsalvationkingdom
- The soothing tongue is a tree of life,
but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15:4speakingSpiritlying
Grace
- Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
- 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 6:24-26blessingpeacelight
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- But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
- The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
- And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter 5:10eternal lifesufferingpromises
- 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 2:11-12righteousnesssalvationworld
- 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 1:9holinesssalvationcalling
- 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 30:18righteousnesspatiencecompassion
- For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14sinforgivenessmercy
- For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.
- 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.
Romans 3:23-24sinSaviorconfession
- For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
- What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
- 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.
Psalm 90:17encouragementworkmercy
- For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9brepentanceconversionforgiveness
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
- Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16eternal lifefaithworld
- Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
1 Peter 1:13JesusSpiritthoughts
- But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9strengthweaknessJesus
- But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
- So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 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.
- Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
- Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionmercy
- But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
2 Peter 3:18worshipunderstanding
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- You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
- 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 13:14blessingHoly SpiritGod
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
- For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
- But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah 9:31mercynearnessforgiveness
- For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.
Philippians 1:29faithsufferingmercy
- What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
- Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:7bpeaceFatherblessing
- I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 2:21righteousnesslawJesus
- 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 55:7righteousnessconversionforgiveness
- Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
Matthew 18:21-22forgivenessneighborsin
- 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.
- For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.
- Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
- The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
- ‘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.’
Gratitude
- Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18joyprayer
- Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7prayerworryingfear
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- But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57Jesusovercoming
- We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
- Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34reliabilityworshipfaithfulness
- For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.
- I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
- And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17speakingfollowingwork
- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
- Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
- 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 9:11generosityblessinggiving
- 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 5:13creationworshippraise
- 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
- But I, with shouts of grateful praise,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’
Jonah 2:9salvationsacrificeobedience
- 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.”
Greed
- Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 5:10moneymaterialism
- Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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- 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 12:15moneymaterialismcontentment
- 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 6:10moneyevildesires
- What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 6:19-20materialismheaven
- Dishonest money dwindles away,
but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
- All day long he craves for more,
but the righteous give without sparing.
Proverbs 21:26givingmaterialismdesires
- Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands.
Ecclesiastes 5:15materialismheaven
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
- Turn my heart toward your statutes
and not toward selfish gain.
Psalm 119:36lawheartselfishness
- 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.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
- But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
- This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.
- Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10sinsalvationkingdom
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Exodus 20:17materialismlawneighbor
Harvest
- 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
- Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9righteousnessrewardpatience
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- Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
- Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
Habakkuk 3:17-18joysalvationworship
- Honor the Lord with your wealth,
with the firstfruits of all your crops.
Proverbs 3:9moneysacrificegiving
- Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:8sineternal lifeSpirit
- 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 26:3-4obediencelawblessing
- Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Matthew 6:26valuabletrustFather
- Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:18righteousnesspeacefruitfulness
- Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
2 Corinthians 9:6givinggenerosity
- 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 12:11righteousnesspeacechildren
- “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.”
Malachi 3:10foodblessinggiving
- The vine is dried up
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree—
all the trees of the field—are dried up.
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away.
Healing
- “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
- Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”
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- He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3heartsicknesshealth
- 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
- “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
- Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Matthew 10:8givingreceivingsickness
- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22heartsicknessweakness
- 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 5:16righteousnessprayersickness
- 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 7:14humilityforgivenessconversion
- But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
- 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 4:2joyrighteousnessawe
- “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 2:24sinrighteousnessbody
- Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.’
2 Kings 20:5prayersadnessprophecy
- Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
Luke 10:9sicknessnearnesskingdom
- Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;
save me and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise.
Jeremiah 17:14sicknesspraisesalvation
- On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
- If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.
Exodus 15:26listeningsicknessrighteousness
- On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.” The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.
- 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.
Luke 4:18Spiritevangelismfreedom
- He sent out his word and healed them;
he rescued them from the grave.
- The Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
Psalm 146:8sicknessrighteousnesssadness
Health
- Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.
Exodus 23:25worshipblessingsickness
- 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.
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- He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3healingheartsickness
- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22healingheartsickness
- Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Matthew 10:8healinggivingreceiving
- 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
- 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.
- On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
Matthew 9:12forgivenesshealing
- 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 4:8obediencelifebody
- So then, banish anxiety from your heart
and cast off the troubles of your body,
for youth and vigor are meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 11:10sadnessworryingheart
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Heart
- Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23lifeprotectionthoughts
- As water reflects the face,
so one’s life reflects the heart.
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- The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
according to what their deeds deserve.”
- 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 3:3-4humilitybeautyclothing
- You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
- May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.
- Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
- 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.”
- 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 3:5-6trustdependenceequipment
- Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:3-4loverewardvaluable
- Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21materialismmoneydesires
- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22healingsicknessweakness
- My son, do not forget my teaching,
but keep my commands in your heart,
for they will prolong your life many years
and bring you peace and prosperity.
- Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7joygivinggenerosity
- I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- The wise in heart accept commands,
but a chattering fool comes to ruin.
- Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24hopeencouragementcourage
- I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.
- Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
- May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
- He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3healingsicknesshealth
- Blessed are those who keep his statutes
and seek him with all their heart.
- Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
- I will praise you with an upright heart
as I learn your righteous laws.
- But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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- Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12hopelifesickness
- So then, banish anxiety from your heart
and cast off the troubles of your body,
for youth and vigor are meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 11:10sadnessworryinghealth
- Your statutes are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart.
- 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.
- Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
- Anxiety weighs down the heart,
but a kind word cheers it up.
Proverbs 12:25speakingworrying
- And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
- I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you.
- 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.
- But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
Psalm 13:5-6trustworshipsinging
- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- My son, pay attention to what I say;
turn your ear to my words.
Do not let them out of your sight,
keep them within your heart.
Proverbs 4:20-21listeningWord of Godobedience
- “Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Joel 2:12conversionfastingsadness
- Turn my heart toward your statutes
and not toward selfish gain.
Psalm 119:36lawgreedselfishness
- My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed.
- I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1worshipgratitudemiracles
- 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 23:14reliabilitysouldeath
- 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 5:27-28marriagedesiressin
- Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.
- 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
- Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
- The precepts of the Lord are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the Lord are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
Heaven
- 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 4:16-17salvationdeathangels
- Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
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- 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?
- But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:20salvationJesus
- Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
- The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
- There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens.
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 6:19-20greedmaterialism
- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Matthew 24:35reliabilityWord of God
- 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 6:12Spiritevilself-control
- 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 4:18protectionevilworship
- Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
- 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 32:17creationstrengthalmighty
- 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 3:2-3purificationfamilychildren
- 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
- Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth.
- 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.
- Our help is in the name of the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
- After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
Acts 1:9miraclesJesusascension
- As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9planningunderstanding
- 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 24:50-51Jesusblessingascension
- “Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord.
“Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
- Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands.
Ecclesiastes 5:15greedmaterialism
- 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
- 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.”
- 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 1:1-2creationSpiritHoly Spirit
- To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21overcomingrewardJesus
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- Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
- 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 16:23-24helldeathsuffering
- 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 comingJesus
- I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
- However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
- After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
- When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
- By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
- 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.
Luke 15:7conversionrepentancejoy
- 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
- 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 3:5overcomingpromisesacknowledging
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:17Jesusconversionevangelism
- 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.
- Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
Philippians 2:9-10Jesusworshipworld
- Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19lawkingdomobedience
- This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.’
Matthew 6:9-10prayerFatherhumility
- Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21obediencesalvationkingdom
- For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Matthew 5:18reliabilityWord of Godlaw
- Our God is in heaven;
he does whatever pleases him.
Psalm 115:3Goddependenceunderstanding
- 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.
- 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.
- Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let your glory be over all the earth.
Hell
- 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 16:23-24deathheavensuffering
- 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.
- 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.
- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23sineternal lifereward
- 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.
Psalm 139:7-8Spiritheavendeath
- Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2lawjudgmentredeemer
- All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
- 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.
Holiness
- 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 7:1purificationawepromises
- 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.”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14peacelifereconciliation
- How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word.
Psalm 119:9Word of Godequipment
- 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 1:9gracesalvationcalling
- Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24eternal liferighteousnessthoughts
- In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.
- 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 2:14-16aWord of Godlifeblameless
- But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
- You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
- Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
- There is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you;
there is no Rock like our God.
- 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.
- For this is what the high and exalted One says—
he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
“I live in a high and holy place,
but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
- 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 16:17communityevilchurch
- Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
- Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 3:16Holy SpiritSpiritchurch
- 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.
- Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
- Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
- I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.
- It is a trap to dedicate something rashly
and only later to consider one’s vows.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10awewisdomunderstanding
- No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
- Sing to God, sing in praise of his name,
extol him who rides on the clouds;
rejoice before him—his name is the Lord.
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalm 68:4-5safetyworshipwidows
- And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
- 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 2:9evangelismsalvationlight
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- 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 3:17churchcommunityprotection
Holy Spirit
- Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17freedomSpirit
- May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 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
- And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
John 14:16comforterFatherpentecost
- 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 14:26comforterFatherlearning
- Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 3:16holinessSpiritchurch
- They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 2:3-4speakingSpiritpentecost
- And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
- If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
- And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:30sadnesssecond coming
- 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 1:8evangelismSpiritstrength
- 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 28:19-20evangelismbaptismlearning
- After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
Acts 4:31pentecostprayermiracles
- 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.
- For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:11Spiritthoughtsunderstanding
- And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Ezekiel 36:27Spiritlawfollowing
- 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
- We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Acts 5:32obedienceSpiritreceiving
- 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 15:26comforterFatherJesus
- Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
Mark 13:11speakingSpiritworrying
- Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
Psalm 143:10learningSpiritobedience
- 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.
- 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 13:14graceblessingGod
- While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:21prophecySpiritspeaking
- 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.”
Luke 3:21-22baptismprayerSpirit
- 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.’
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- 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.”
- This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 4:6GodSpiritstrength
- The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners.
- 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.
Psalm 139:7-8Spiritheavendeath
- 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 3:5salvationrebirthmercy
- Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.
- As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
- 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.
Matthew 12:32forgivenessJesuseternal life
- 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 1:1-2creationSpiritheaven
- 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 1:35christmasstrengthJesus
- And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew 12:31sinforgivenessSpirit
- 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 2:33pentecostascensionJesus
- 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.
- 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.
Honesty
- Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
- The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
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- To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3righteousnesssacrifice
- If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.
- 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.
- Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
- Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
- A perverse person stirs up conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:28gossipfriendshiplying
- Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes.
- But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
- Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8righteousnessmoneycontentment
- Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act.
- Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10:2moneyrighteousness
- Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.
James 5:12truthspeakingjudgment
- Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
who conduct their affairs with justice.
- No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
- The Lord detests lying lips,
but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
Proverbs 12:22lyingspeakingtruth
- Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:25reliabilityrighteousness
- Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
Proverbs 2:9righteousnessgoodness
- This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.
- There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.
- 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.”
Hope
- 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 29:11planningblessingpromises
- Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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 40:31encouragementstrengthpromises
- 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.
- May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13faithSpiritHoly Spirit
- Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28encouragementrestweakness
- Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- You are my refuge and my shield;
I have put my hope in your word.
Psalm 119:114Word of Godprotection
- Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23reliabilityacknowledgingpromises
- Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24encouragementheartcourage
- But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
- But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord,
I wait for God my Savior;
my God will hear me.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12lifeheartsickness
- I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3:24materialismacknowledging
- Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
Psalm 25:5truthlearningsalvation
- I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
- May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
even as we put our hope in you.
- And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
- 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 1:3resurrectionrebirtheaster
- The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners.
Isaiah 61:1Spiritredeemerfreedom
- 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.
- There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called.
Ephesians 4:4Spiritcallingbody
- 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.
Colossians 1:27evangelismJesus
- Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:
If you find it, there is a future hope for you,
and your hope will not be cut off.
- I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.
Ephesians 1:18understandingreceivinglight
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- Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7lovetruthevil
- The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Humility
- Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.
Philippians 2:3selfishnessneighbor
- Bible Verses About Hope
- When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.
- 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 12:16communitydependencecontentment
- Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
- 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 3:3-4beautyheartclothing
- Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12gentlenesspatiencecompassion
- Pride brings a person low,
but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
- Humility is the fear of the Lord;
its wages are riches and honor and life.
- Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
- 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 7:14forgivenesshealingconversion
- Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
- Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- Before a downfall the heart is haughty,
but humility comes before honor.
- Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 3:8communityneighborcompassion
- Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
Mark 9:35Jesusunderstandingserving
- 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 1:28-29callingworldpride
- He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
- So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
- Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the Lord,
and humility comes before honor.
- Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
Psalm 25:8-9righteousnesslearning
- Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18-19marriagerelationships
- Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”
- 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 5:13freedomdesiresserving
- To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
- He must become greater; I must become less.
- For the Lord takes delight in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.
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- For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45Jesussacrificesalvation
- Not to us, Lord, not to us
but to your name be the glory,
because of your love and faithfulness.
Psalm 115:1loveworshipfaithfulness
- Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Daniel 4:37righteousnessworshippride
- The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7moneyalmightydependence
- 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 45:9creationunderstanding
- Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14servingJesusneighbor
- It is written: ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’
Romans 14:11worshipacknowledgingpraise
- 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 3:20-21worshipstrengthSpirit
- Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
- When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
- Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.
Matthew 20:26-27servingneighborslavery
- What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
- Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.
- 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 9:9prophecyeasterrighteousness
- Hear my prayer, Lord,
listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
- This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.’
Idols
- Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
- Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10sinsalvationkingdom
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- 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 13:4awelisteningfollowing
- Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
- Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:39Godheavenworld
- Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
Ephesians 5:11-12sinspeakingfruitfulness
- 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.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
- But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:15familyfollowingserving
- But I have been the Lord your God
ever since you came out of Egypt.
You shall acknowledge no God but me,
no Savior except me.
- “No weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17righteousnessjudgmentprotection
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:11equipmentevilprotection
- 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.
- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21evilgoodnessovercoming
- The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
- My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
Jesus
- Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
- 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.
Hebrews 12:2faithSaviorcrucifixion
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
- If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
- In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.
- I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.
John 10:28-30eternal lifeFather
- But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
- Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
- For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
Matthew 18:20communityprayerchurch
- This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
- But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57gratitudeovercoming
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10:38sufferingfollowingcrucifixion
- 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 10:9faithspeakingconfession
- And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
- 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.
- And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.
- For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10creationfollowingbeauty
- Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:4sufferingsicknesscrucifixion
- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15peacegratitudebody
- Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.
- For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.
- 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 12:4-5bodycommunitydependence
- When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- 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 2:6-8Saviorobediencecrucifixion
- 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.
- For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
- He must become greater; I must become less.
- For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17salvationjudgmentworld
- 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.
Isaiah 9:6MessiahFatherchristmas
- Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
Acts 13:38-39lawforgivenessfreedom
- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17creationrebirth
- He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
Mark 16:15obedienceevangelismworld
- For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
- Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
- But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
- “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
- If you love me, keep my commands.
- Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
- Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 5:5faithovercomingworld
- He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
- The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- 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 15:5rewarddependencefruitfulness
- I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18comforterSpiritreliability
- Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
- For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45humilitysacrificesalvation
- 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 2:9-10strengthequipment
- 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 1:18-19Saviorlifeblood
- Bible Verses About Hope
- And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- 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?
John 14:2Fatherheavenascension
- Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
Mark 9:35humilityunderstandingserving
- 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 5:1liferedeemeraddiction
- Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
- And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
Philippians 3:10sufferingresurrection
- If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
- I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
- For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:14faithresurrection
- 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.”
Mark 6:49-50miraclesfearcourage
- So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36redeemerfreedomaddiction
- But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:20salvationheaven
- I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
- 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 8:6Fatherlifecreation
- I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6second comingrebirth
- I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 5:32sinrepentanceconversion
- If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
- You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:6sacrificetransformation
- Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.
Revelation 22:12second comingreward
- To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21overcomingrewardheaven
- He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
- Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
Philippians 2:9-10worshipheavenworld
- 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.
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9callingreliabilityGod
- For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4sinsacrificeresurrection
- 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 19:21blamelessgivingmaterialism
- No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
- The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- 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 6:22blessingpersecutionevil
- But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9gracestrengthweakness
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:17conversionevangelismheaven
- 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 5:20understandingtrutheternal life
- Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
- This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
- 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.
- That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:19sinsalvationworld
- But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
- 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 26:53protectionangelsFather
- Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17foodsabbathjudgment
- 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
- For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
1 Corinthians 15:21deathresurrection
- 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 2:19-20kingdomprophecychurch
- 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 3:28communityunderstandingslavery
- 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 8:34salvationfollowingselfishness
- 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 13:14graceblessingHoly Spirit
- Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
John 12:26servingfollowingFather
- While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
- Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”
- I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
- But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.
1 Timothy 1:16eternal lifepatience
- If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
- “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 16:6resurrectioneastercrucifixion
- Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
1 Peter 1:13graceSpiritthoughts
- “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 1:7second comingcrucifixion
- 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.
- Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
- If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.
- Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
John 20:21peaceFatherevangelism
- After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
- You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am.
- 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 7:14christmasmiraclesprophecy
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
- 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.”
- Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.
- 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 1:22-23prophecymiracleschristmas
- Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.”
- “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Mark 14:36easterFathersacrifice
- I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 2:21gracerighteousnesslaw
- “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
Matthew 4:19followingevangelism
- No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1 John 2:23Fatheracknowledgingconfession
- Bible Verses About Hope
- But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
- 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 1:13-14salvationdevilblood
- Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Matthew 20:28servingsacrificesalvation
- And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
- 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 14:26comforterHoly SpiritFather
- 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 15:26comforterHoly SpiritFather
- For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2evangelismmindcrucifixion
- 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 8:6covenantmediatorpromises
- In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
- Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- 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 1:30-31fearangelschristmas
- For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:5sufferingcomforterencouragement
- 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
- 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 28:5-6Savioreasterresurrection
- Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
- 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.”
Luke 3:21-22baptismprayerSpirit
- 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 5:22-23marriagesalvationrelationships
- 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 2:2encouragementloveunderstanding
- 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 9:14Spiritpurificationsacrifice
- 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.
1 John 2:24listeningevangelismFather
- 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 3:16Spiritangelsevangelism
- Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.”
- 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.
- When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
- 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 24:50-51blessingheavenascension
- Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14humilityservingneighbor
- 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.
Matthew 12:32Holy Spiritforgivenesseternal life
- You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
- 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 9:9prophecyeasterhumility
- 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 Spiritchristmasstrength
- Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
- 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 24:6-7resurrectioneastercrucifixion
- 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!”
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:6faithlovevaluable
- 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 4:1-2fastingtemptationdevil
- 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.”
- Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
- 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 20:18-19eastersacrificeresurrection
- 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.’”
- After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
Acts 1:9miraclesheavenascension
- 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.”
Acts 19:4baptismconversionfaith
- Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
Romans 13:14desiresaddictionbody
- Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12bodycommunitychurch
- 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.
- 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 1:33SpiritbaptismHoly Spirit
- 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 3:26resurrectionblessingconversion
- So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- 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 Spiritpentecostascension
- Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
- 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.
Joy
- Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18gratitudeprayer
- The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17Godredeemersinging
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
- Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought me joy.
- The Lord has done it this very day;
let us rejoice today and be glad.
- Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
Habakkuk 3:17-18salvationworshipharvest
- You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
- Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
- 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 61:10righteousnessredeemermarriage
- Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
John 16:24reliabilityreceivingblameless
- 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 12:10strengthpersecutionweakness
- A person finds joy in giving an apt reply—
and how good is a timely word!
- Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7givingheartgenerosity
- You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalm 32:7safetyprotectionsinging
- 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 5:22-23lawSpiritblessing
- Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
- So that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.
Romans 15:32obediencedependence
- I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
- Your statutes are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart.
- And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 11:6faithrewardseeking
- For the Lord takes delight in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.
- But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6faithmaterialismcontentment
- A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22healingheartsickness
- I rejoice in following your statutes
as one rejoices in great riches.
- Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
1 Timothy 6:17moneymaterialismpride
- The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.
- I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
- 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.
Ecclesiastes 7:14lifedependence
- I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13lifefoodreceiving
- While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”
- Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
- Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10sadnessmoneymaterialism
- Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
- 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 4:2righteousnesshealingawe
- My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed.
Proverbs 23:15wisdomheartfamily
- However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
- But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.”
- Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.
- 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 12:1creationlifeevil
- 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.
Luke 15:7conversionrepentanceheaven
- Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:19moneyfoodwork
- In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Luke 15:10angelsrepentanceconversion
- The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Proverbs 10:28righteousnesshopepatience
- A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 10:1familywisdomsadness
- The precepts of the Lord are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the Lord are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
- The vine is dried up
and the fig tree is withered;
the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree—
all the trees of the field—are dried up.
Surely the people’s joy
is withered away.
Judgement
- You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
Romans 2:1righteousnessneighbor
- Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- A person may think their own ways are right,
but the Lord weighs the heart.
Proverbs 21:2righteousnessunderstandingthoughts
- Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
Romans 14:13gentlenessneighbor
- But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
- Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
- Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
- 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.
- “No weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17righteousnessprotectionidols
- All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
- There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:12lawsalvationneighbor
- Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
- For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
- Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17foodsabbathJesus
- The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.
- And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
Revelation 20:12-13resurrection
- Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2lawredeemerpunishment
- My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:9righteousnesslearning
- Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
- 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-controlbody
- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23sineternal lifereward
- Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.
James 5:12honestytruthspeaking
- Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16faithsalvationbaptism
- If this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
2 Peter 2:9temptationpunishmentsalvation
- 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
Kingdom
- Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10sinsalvationidols
- But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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 29:11worshipstrengthalmighty
- Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:17Jesusconversionevangelism
- Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
- Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
- 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 2:19-20Jesusprophecychurch
- The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.
- “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Mark 1:15conversionrepentancefaith
- Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
Luke 10:9healingsicknessnearness
- I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
- How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of those who bring good news,
who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”
- 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 1:10-11callingobediencereward
- Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:10righteousnesspersecution
- For the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
the Lord is our king;
it is he who will save us.
Isaiah 33:22righteousnesssalvation
- Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”
- Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.
Psalm 24:10worshipacknowledging
- 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 20:6resurrectiondeathMessiah
- Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19lawheavenobedience
- Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17worshipalmightyGod
- 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
- Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21obediencesalvationheaven
- This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.’
Matthew 6:9-10prayerFatherhumility