L – R
Law
- 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.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7familychildren
- What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
- Bible Verses About Hope
- “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 10:23goodnessrighteousnessfood
- For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
- The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31loveneighborselfishness
- 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 5:22-23Spiritblessinggentleness
- Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
- Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
- If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
Deuteronomy 28:1obedienceblessing
- Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
- For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12neighborrelationshipsprophecy
- 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 103:17-18reliabilityfamilycovenant
- Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14righteousnessrelationshipslight
- And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
Deuteronomy 10:12-13aweblessingserving
- Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2sufferingneighbor
- I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.
Psalm 119:10righteousnessheart
- 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.
Micah 6:8righteousnesshumility
- 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.
- But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
- 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.
Romans 2:12sinjudgmentpunishment
- Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
- I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
I have set my heart on your laws.
- And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
- If you love me, keep my commands.
- What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
- For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
- Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
- The wise in heart accept commands,
but a chattering fool comes to ruin.
- Observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go.
- The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
- Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Psalm 119:1righteousnesslifeblameless
- Great peace have those who love your law,
and nothing can make them stumble.
- 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 13:38-39Jesusforgivenessfreedom
- I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:19-20obediencesabbath
- 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.
- ‘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-19lovefamilyreliability
- 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 1:25blessinglisteningobedience
- So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
- 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.
- 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 7:9reliabilityGodcovenant
- 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 3:21-22faithrighteousnessprophecy
- For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:15Saviormediatorcovenant
- He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- 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 8:1-2judgmentredeemerpunishment
- Your statutes are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart.
- Turn my heart toward your statutes
and not toward selfish gain.
Psalm 119:36greedheartselfishness
- Bible Verses About Hope
- All your words are true;
all your righteous laws are eternal.
Psalm 119:160reliabilityWord of God
- Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
- 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 2:15-16faithrighteousness
- Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
- The law of the Lord is perfect,
refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.
Psalm 19:7soulwisdomWord of God
- Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
Isaiah 26:8righteousnessdesires
- Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
- 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 15:26listeningsicknesshealing
- I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have preserved my life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- Listen, my son, accept what I say,
and the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:10Word of Godobediencelife
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29obedienceblessingchildren
- 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.
- 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 Godheaven
- I will walk about in freedom,
for I have sought out your precepts.
- If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.
- 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 5:19kingdomheavenobedience
- 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 34:28fastingnearnessWord of God
- Praise the Lord.
Blessed are those who fear the Lord,
who find great delight in his commands.
- We have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
To him belongs eternal praise.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
Ezekiel 18:21conversionsinobedience
- And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Ezekiel 36:27SpiritfollowingHoly Spirit
- I will praise you with an upright heart
as I learn your righteous laws.
- I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 2:21gracerighteousnessJesus
- I rejoice in following your statutes
as one rejoices in great riches.
- I will hasten and not delay
to obey your commands.
Psalm 119:60obediencefollowing
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.
Genesis 26:4-5blessinglisteningobedience
- ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:19lovefamilyfriendship
- Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord.
- And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- 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.
Deuteronomy 4:2obediencefollowing
- 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 26:3-4obedienceblessingharvest
- The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless,
but it is the ruin of those who do evil.
- Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.
- He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
Deuteronomy 4:13covenantfollowing
- 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 4:12judgmentsalvationneighbor
- You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
- The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
Exodus 24:12obediencereceiving
- Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
- You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.
- I have not departed from the commands of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
Job 23:12speakingobedienceWord of God
- Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40obedienceblessinglife
- 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 20:17greedmaterialismneighbor
- Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
Deuteronomy 8:6obedienceawefollowinge
- The precepts of the Lord are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the Lord are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
Learning
- I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Psalm 32:8encouragementunderstanding
- Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11encouragementneighbor
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths.
- 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 3:11-12loveFatherpunishment
- 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 Godworshipgratitude
- Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
- Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but whoever hates correction is stupid.
Proverbs 12:1understandinglistening
- I instruct you in the way of wisdom
and lead you along straight paths.
Proverbs 4:11wisdomrighteousness
- Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
Psalm 143:10SpiritobedienceHoly Spirit
- 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.
- 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 25:8-9righteousnesshumility
- As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
- 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 28:19-20evangelismbaptismHoly Spirit
- You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.
- Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.”
- Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
- 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 26:9righteousnessjudgment
- Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8:5Fatherpunishment
- 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
- You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
- 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.
- Teach me your way, Lord,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11truthreliabilityheart
Life
- 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.
- Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- As water reflects the face,
so one’s life reflects the heart.
- For we live by faith, not by sight.
- Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Colossians 3:23-24rewardreceivingwork
- Whoever pursues righteousness and love
finds life, prosperity and honor.
Proverbs 21:21loverighteousness
- What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
Mark 8:36greedmaterialismworld
- My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26strengthdependenceweakness
- For, “Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.”
- Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
- Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23heartprotectionthoughts
- There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 3:1planningheaven
- Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths.
- Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2blamelessobedienceworld
- 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.”
- 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.
- Those who guard their lips preserve their lives,
but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.
- 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 I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
- Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
- 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 2:20faithSaviorselfishness
- Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions.
- Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,
but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
Proverbs 10:17obediencelistening
- The one who gets wisdom loves life;
the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.
- Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14holinesspeacereconciliation
- 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.
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
Psalm 37:5-6trustrighteousnesslight
- Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34worryingdependence
- 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 7:14joydependence
- 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.
- Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.
Philippians 2:14-16aholinessWord of Godblameless
- The Lord has done it this very day;
let us rejoice today and be glad.
- 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.
- 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 6:25foodworryingbeauty
- 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.”
- Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39eternal lifesuffering
- For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:22salvationdeath
- 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.
- He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Luke 11:28Word of Godlistening
- Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
- For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
- “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 6:12addictiondesiresrighteousness
- Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
- You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14righteousnessevangelismlight
- 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 6:19-20worshipSpirithealth
- Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
- 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.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12hopeheartsickness
- 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 5:1bodydeathheaven
- Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
- If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
- What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
Matthew 16:26materialismsoulworld
- 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 3:12-13joyfoodreceiving
- All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17Word of Godequipmentserving
- I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have preserved my life.
- 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.”
- Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the one who sustains me.
- If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
- He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11creationunderstandingdependence
- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Revelation 3:19lovepunishmentconversion
- 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 5:1Jesusredeemeraddiction
- Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
- Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
- 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 4:12contentmentfoodmoney
- There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death.
Proverbs 14:12righteousnesssinthoughts
- The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
- So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31foodworship
- 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 12:1creationjoyevil
- You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
- For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
2 Corinthians 10:3understandingworld
- 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-23worryingfoodcontentment
- Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11peacelovenearness
- In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
- Listen, my son, accept what I say,
and the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:10Word of Godobediencelaw
- 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.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
Psalm 119:1lawrighteousnessblameless
- The Lord will rescue his servants;
no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 34:22salvationprotectionserving
- This is what the Lord says to Israel: “Seek me and live.”
- The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
- If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
- ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
- The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.
- 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.”
- He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
- 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 8:6FatherJesuscreation
- For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15loveresurrection
- 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.”
1 Peter 1:15-16holinesscalling
- Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Matthew 3:8conversionrepentancefruitfulness
- A thousand years in your sight
are like a day that has just gone by,
or like a watch in the night.
- Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
1 Peter 2:16freedomevilserving
- 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
- See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:4righteousnessreliabilityfaith
- His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
- Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
- 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 1:18-19SaviorJesusblood
- 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.
- 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
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.
- I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
- For 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 4:8healthobediencebody
- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
- 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.
- 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 Godfood
- Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the duty of all mankind.
- 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?
- 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
- 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 5:18foodworkreceiving
- We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
- For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
- 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.”
- Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40lawobedienceblessing
- In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
2 Timothy 3:12persecutionJesus
- 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.”
- Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:9-10lyingconversiontransformation
- 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 12:24foodworryingvaluable
- 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.
Light
- Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
- Your word is a lamp for my feet,
a light on my path.
- 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.”
- The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- 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 6:24-26graceblessingpeace
- You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14righteousnessevangelismlife
- 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?
- For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
“I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- 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 5:15-16evangelismworshipgoodness
- The unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple.
Psalm 119:130Word of Godunderstanding
- Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
Psalm 37:5-6trustrighteousnesslife
- He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
- This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
- But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1:7purificationsacrificecommunity
- And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- 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 1:18understandinghopereceiving
- 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 2:9evangelismsalvationholiness
- 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.
- Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14lawrighteousnessrelationships
- 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 1:17reliabilityFatherblameless
- Restore us, Lord God Almighty;
make your face shine on us,
that we may be saved.
Psalm 80:19salvationdependencealmighty
- What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
- But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:22-23evangelismsufferingresurrection
- Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love.
Psalm 31:16blessinglovesalvation
- It was not by their sword that they won the land,
nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Psalm 44:3lovestrengthdependence
- The precepts of the Lord are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the Lord are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
Listening
- My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
James 1:19speakingangerself-control
- He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3prayerunderstanding
- Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
James 1:22obedienceWord of God
- This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
- Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
- Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,
and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
- I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.
Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.
- Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24Word of Godwisdommind
- Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
- And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
- 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 3:20obediencefoodpromises
- Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
- In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears.
- Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,
but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
- In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait expectantly.
- “If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.”
- 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 13:4awefollowingidols
- The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry.
- About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
- So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
- What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
- My son, keep your father’s command
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:4foodWord of Godbread
- If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
Matthew 18:15sinspeakingreconciliation
- 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 4:20-21Word of Godheartobedience
- I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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 1:25lawblessingobedience
- But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord,
I wait for God my Savior;
my God will hear me.
- Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
Psalm 130:1-2dependencemercygrace
- I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
- 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 15:26sicknesshealingrighteousness
- This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6prayersalvationpoverty
- For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12righteousnessprayerevil
- Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but whoever hates correction is stupid.
Proverbs 12:1understandinglearning
- Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
- 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 2:24evangelismJesusFather
- I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.
Genesis 26:4-5blessingobediencelaw
- I will strengthen Judah
and save the tribes of Joseph.
I will restore them
because I have compassion on them.
They will be as though
I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God
and I will answer them.
Love
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5patienceangerselfishness
- Do everything in love.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
- And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3:14communityblameless
- 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 3:3-4rewardheartvaluable
- 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.
- Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- We love because He first loved us.
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
- 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.
- 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 13:2faithprophecy
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- 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 49:15-16familychildrencompassion
- Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
2 Thessalonians 3:5transformationfollowingfaithfulness
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26purificationrelationshipsmarriage
- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- 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.
- Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
- However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him.
- Since you are precious and honored in my sight,
and because I love you,
I will give people in exchange for you,
nations in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 43:4salvationencouragementvaluable
- 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.
- 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.
- Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
- 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.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12neighborrelationships
- Whoever pursues righteousness and love
finds life, prosperity and honor.
Proverbs 21:21righteousnesslife
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers over all wrongs.
- For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39mediatordeathangels
- 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 3:22-23reliabilitycompassionfaithfulness
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
- The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31lawneighborselfishness
- 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.
Ephesians 4:15truthJesuschurch
- I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.
Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.
- Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
- No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
1 Corinthians 10:24selfishnessneighbor
- If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1speakingangels
- For, “Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.”
- 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.
- For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.
- For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7self-controlstrengthSpirit
- Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35sufferingpersecutionpoverty
- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10sinSaviorreconciliation
- 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 13:3sufferinggivingpride
- By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
- Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:17-18gentlenessanger
- The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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
- But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11faithrighteousness
- 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 1:5-7faithgoodnessself-control
- 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.
- For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
Psalm 94:18reliabilitydependence
- Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
- 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 13:1-2gentlenessneighborangels
- Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7truthevilprotection
- Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- 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.
- If you love me, keep my commands.
- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Revelation 3:19lifepunishmentconversion
- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7neighborfriendshiprebirth
- You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you.
Psalm 86:5reliabilityforgiveness
- For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- 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.
- By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- 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.
- The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- 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.
Ephesians 2:4-5mercyJesusgrace
- 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 3:11-12Fatherlearningpunishment
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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 5:13freedomhumilitydesires
- The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love.
Psalm 33:5reliabilityrighteousness
- 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.
- 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.”
- No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- 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.
- Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11lifepeacenearness
- 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 1:3faithgratitude
- 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.
- “Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10peacereliabilitycovenant
- 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 2:2Jesusencouragementunderstanding
- As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
Psalm 103:13fearFathercompassion
- 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.
- 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.
- And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
- ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:19familyfriendshiprelationships
- 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 lifefaith
- For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15liferesurrection
- 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
- Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Psalm 40:11reliabilityprotectionmercy
- 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 SpiritJesus
- And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love.
Psalm 31:16blessingsalvationlight
- 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.
Joel 2:13heartgracereliability
- ‘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-19lawfamilyreliability
- Bible Verses About Hope
- If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
1 John 3:17moneyneighborcompassion
- 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.
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:6faithJesusvaluable
- Not to us, Lord, not to us
but to your name be the glory,
because of your love and faithfulness.
Psalm 115:1humilityworshipfaithfulness
- Praise the Lord.
Blessed are those who fear the Lord,
who find great delight in his commands.
- It was not by their sword that they won the land,
nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand, your arm,
and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Psalm 44:3strengthdependencelight
- For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Lying
- For, “Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.”
- Save me, Lord,
from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues.
Psalm 120:2speakingredeemersoul
- Bible Verses About Hope
- The Lord detests lying lips,
but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
Proverbs 12:22speakinghonestytruth
- 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 15:2-3truthblamelessgossip
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
- Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips
and spreads slander is a fool.
- Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
- If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.
- A perverse person stirs up conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:28honestygossipfriendship
- Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:9-10lifeconversiontransformation
- Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
- An honest witness does not deceive,
but a false witness pours out lies.
- ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:18b-19lawlovefamily
- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew 5:11blessingpersecutionevil
- To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
- The soothing tongue is a tree of life,
but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 15:4speakingSpiritgossip
- A gossip betrays a confidence,
but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11:13reliabilityspeakinggossip
- You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool—
how much worse lying lips to a ruler!
- 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.”
- Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
- The lips of the righteous know what finds favor,
but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32truthrighteousnessspeaking
- 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 23:19Godreliabilitypromises
Marriage
- He who finds a wife finds what is good
and receives favor from the Lord.
- “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18-19humilityrelationships
- Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
- A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Proverbs 31:10valuablerelationships
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26lovepurificationrelationships
- In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps.
Proverbs 16:9planningdependence
- But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2desiresrelationships
- The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:18creationrelationships
- If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.
- Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
- 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 5:22-23Jesussalvationrelationships
- You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
there is no flaw in you.
Song of songs 4:7beautyrelationships
- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.
- 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.
- For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
- In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28relationshipsbody
- However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- 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 5:27-28desiresheartsin
- I delight greatly in the Lord;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10righteousnessjoyredeemer
- Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:5devilself-control
Materialism
- 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 6:7-8foodcontentmentworld
- Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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.
- What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
- 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 12:15moneygreedcontentment
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
- So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18eternal lifeunderstanding
- 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.
- Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great wealth with turmoil.
- 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.
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- How much better to get wisdom than gold,
to get insight rather than silver!
- 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 19:21blamelessgivingheaven
- 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.
- 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 2:9-10beautyworshipgoodness
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:8foodmoneyreliability
- What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
- But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6faithjoycontentment
- A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 22:1moneyrelationships
- All day long he craves for more,
but the righteous give without sparing.
Proverbs 21:26greedgivingdesires
- Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
- Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4moneyrighteousnesspunishment
- The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
they imagine it a wall too high to scale.
- All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
- 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.
- If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
1 John 3:17moneyneighborcompassion
- I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3:24hopeacknowledging
- Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10sadnessjoymoney
- As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
- And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4workneighbordesires
- A person’s riches may ransom their life,
but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
- 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.
- John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
Mediator
- For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
- And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
- For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.
- My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- 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 8:6Jesuscovenantpromises
- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21sinrighteousness
Mercy
- 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.
- But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 9:13righteousnesssacrificerepentance
- 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.
- Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
- 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.
- Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 30:18gracerighteousnesspatience
- For 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
- For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14singraceforgiveness
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 90:17graceencouragementwork
- 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.
- Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Psalm 40:11lovereliabilityprotection
- Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
who conduct their affairs with justice.
- 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 lifefaith
- Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
Psalm 130:1-2listeningdependencegrace
- 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 9:31gracenearnessforgiveness
- 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!
- Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionforgiveness
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will frown on you no longer,
for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord,
‘I will not be angry forever.’
Jeremiah 3:12bangerforgivenessgrace
- For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.
Philippians 1:29gracefaithsuffering
- He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5salvationHoly Spiritrebirth
Messiah
- “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.”
- 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 9:6JesusFatherchristmas
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
- So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
- Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.
- But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:22-23evangelismsufferingresurrection
- 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 20:6resurrectiondeathkingdom
Mind
- Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- The one who gets wisdom loves life;
the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.
- For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes 1:18wisdomsadnessworrying
- The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 27:12safetyprotectionpunishment
- As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17friendshiprelationships
- 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.
- Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24Word of Godwisdomlistening
- Blessed are those who find wisdom,
those who gain understanding.
Proverbs 3:13wisdomunderstanding
- For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1:20creationstrengthworld
- 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.
- Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,
and discerning if they hold their tongues.
- For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2evangelismJesuscrucifixion
- A fool spurns a parent’s discipline,
but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
Proverbs 15:5Fatherwisdomchildren
Miracles
- Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
- “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
- I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
- Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”
- For no word from God will ever fail.
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14creationsoulbeauty
- Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26salvationunderstanding
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1worshipgratitudeheart
- 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 21:21faithspeakingtrust
- 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.”
- I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’
- After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
- 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 4:31pentecostHoly Spiritprayer
- 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 7:14christmasJesusprophecy
- Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
John 20:8-9easterresurrectionunderstanding
- 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 1:22-23prophecyJesuschristmas
- This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:18christmasHoly Spirit
Money
- Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5trustmaterialismdebt
- Dishonest money dwindles away,
but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
- 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.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
- The blessing of the Lord brings wealth,
without painful toil for it.
Proverbs 10:22blessingdependencework
- Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 5:10greedmaterialism
- Honor the Lord with your wealth,
with the firstfruits of all your crops.
Proverbs 3:9sacrificegivingharvest
- Better a little with the fear of the Lord
than great wealth with turmoil.
- 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 12:15greedmaterialismcontentment
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21materialismheartdesires
- 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.
- How much better to get wisdom than gold,
to get insight rather than silver!
Proverbs 16:16materialismwisdom
- 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 29:14givingdependence
- 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 6:17joymaterialismpride
- His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Matthew 25:21reliabilityrewardblessing
- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodreliability
- What a person desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22reliabilitygoodnesspoverty
- Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked;
for the power of the wicked will be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.
Psalm 37:16-17sinrighteousness
- Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
for they will surely sprout wings
and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
Proverbs 23:5desiresmaterialism
- A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 22:1materialismrelationships
- 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 6:10evilgreeddesires
- This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.
- Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10:2honestyrighteousness
- Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4righteousnessmaterialismpunishment
- The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;
they imagine it a wall too high to scale.
- I rejoice in following your statutes
as one rejoices in great riches.
- For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
- Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
- 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 4:12contentmentfoodlife
- 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 5:19foodworkreceiving
- No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 6:24servingdebtmaterialism
- If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
1 John 3:17neighborcompassionlove
- Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
- Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.
1 Chronicles 29:12almightystrength
- The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7almightyhumilitydependence
- Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10sadnessjoymaterialism
- Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8righteousnesscontentmenthonesty
- The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7debtslaverypoverty
- The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously.
Psalm 37:21debtrighteousnessgiving
- After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
- As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
Ecclesiastes 5:11materialismdesires
- A person’s riches may ransom their life,
but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
Proverbs 13:8materialismfearpoverty
- 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 Godworryingtemptation
- Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
- 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.
- 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.”
Nearness
- The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:2bseekingreliability
- Look to the Lord and his strength;
seek his face always.
1 Chronicles 16:11strengthseeking
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- The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:17-18salvationredeemersadness
- Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
- Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
- 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.
- 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.
- But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
- This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his 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.
- Look to the Lord and his strength;
seek his face always.
- Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
- I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
- Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11lifepeacelove
- Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us.
- 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 9:31gracemercyforgiveness
- 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.
- Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
Luke 10:9healingsicknesskingdom
- 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 34:28fastinglawWord of God
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
Neighbor
- The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
- Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 3:8humilitycommunitycompassion
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- No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
1 Corinthians 10:24selfishnesslove
- Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11encouragementlearning
- Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
- For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- 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 13:1-2lovegentlenessangels
- So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12lawrelationshipsprophecy
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.
Philippians 2:3selfishnesshumility
- Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.
Romans 15:2selfishnessencouragement
- Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Galatians 6:10gentlenessgoodnessfaith
- 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 14:13gentlenessjudgment
- Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13forgivenesspeacereconciliation
- Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17righteousnesswidowsorphans
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- 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 2:1righteousnessjudgment
- Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12loverelationships
- Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend
forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.
Romans 14:5obediencewisdomsabbath
- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- 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 7:9-10evilrighteousnessgentleness
- If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
1 John 3:17moneycompassionlove
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- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7lovefriendshiprebirth
- 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 4:10relationshipsfriendship
- 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 1:5-7faithgoodnessself-control
- Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
- 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.
- And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
- 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 18:21-22forgivenesssinmercy
- 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 27:10friendshipfamily
- 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?
- If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
- Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14humilityservingJesus
- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
Psalm 82:3orphansrighteousnessweakness
- Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
- 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 20:26-27humilityservingslavery
- And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4workdesiresmaterialism
- See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
- 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 4:12lawjudgmentsalvation
- Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
- So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
Acts 12:5prayerdependencecommunity
- 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 20:17greedmaterialismlaw
- John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
Obedience
- 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.”
- If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
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- My son, keep your father’s command
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- 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 5:33rewardfollowing
- Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
James 1:22Word of Godlistening
- Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,
but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
- 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 15:16prayercallingfruitfulness
- Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58rewardencouragementwork
- Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
- For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
Romans 5:19righteousnesssalvation
- Observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go.
- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
- Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
- “If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.”
- 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.
- Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
- Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”
- He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
- We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Acts 5:32SpiritreceivingHoly Spirit
- Blessed are all who fear the Lord,
who walk in obedience to him.
- 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.
- And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:11Godacknowledging
- So that I may come to you with joy, by God’s will, and in your company be refreshed.
- Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
Psalm 143:10learningSpiritHoly Spirit
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- For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
- The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
1 John 2:17eternal lifedesiresworld
- Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10rewardrelationships
- 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 lifefaithsalvation
- I will hasten and not delay
to obey your commands.
- 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 Godheart
- 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 3:20foodlisteningpromises
- I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.
- The Lord makes firm the steps
of the one who delights in him.
Psalm 37:23servingtrustfollowing
- 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 2:6-8SaviorJesuscrucifixion
- Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine.
Exodus 19:5covenantvaluableworld
- Listen, my son, accept what I say,
and the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:10Word of Godlawlife
- 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
- I have not departed from the commands of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
Job 23:12lawspeakingWord of God
- ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 1:3bconversionrepentancereliability
- 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 15:26listeningsicknesshealing
- And, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
Hebrews 5:9salvationSavioreternal life
- Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord.
- One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.
Romans 14:5wisdomneighborsabbath
- He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
Mark 16:15evangelismJesusworld
- Get wisdom, get understanding;
do not forget my words or turn away from them.
Proverbs 4:5wisdomunderstandingWord of God
- To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
1 Peter 2:21sufferingfollowingcalling
- But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48righteousnesspunishment
- But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
- For he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:8righteousnessprotectionfaithfulness
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- 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 1:10-11callingkingdomreward
- Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
Deuteronomy 8:6lawawefollowing
- Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”
Acts 10:34-35righteousnessevangelism
- Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
- 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 26:3-4lawblessingharvest
- You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
Matthew 5:13sinevangelismaddiction
- 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.
- Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.
- Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 12:28Word of Godreliability
- I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.
Genesis 26:4-5blessinglisteninglaw
- “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
- God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing;
but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Psalm 68:6freedomfriendshippunishment
- You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.
- 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.
- Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40lawblessinglife
- 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.
- Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29lawblessingchildren
- 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 2:9salvationgratitudesacrifice
- 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 7:21salvationkingdomheaven
- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
Orphans
- Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
- I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
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- Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17righteousnessneighborwidows
- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
Psalm 82:3neighborrighteousnessweakness
- 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 68:4-5holinesssafetyworship
- The Lord watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Psalm 146:9protectionwidowspunishment
- 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
- Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
The one who was dying blessed me;
I made the widow’s heart sing.
Job 29:12-13widowspovertysinging
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsblessing
Overcoming
- I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
John 16:33encouragementpeaceworld
- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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- For no word from God will ever fail.
- For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
- But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57Jesusgratitude
- No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
- The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- 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 lifefaithacknowledging
- Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8desirespersecutiondevil
- You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4salvationalmightyprophecy
- Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
- 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 3:21rewardheavenJesus
- 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 3:5promisesheavenacknowledging
- Lord, save us!
Lord, grant us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
From the house of the Lord we bless you.
Psalm 118:25-26easterblessingsalvation
- 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
Patience
- Whoever is patient has great understanding,
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29wisdomunderstandinganger
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5loveangerselfishness
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- Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
- Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
- 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 6:9righteousnessrewardharvest
- Better a patient person than a warrior,
one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32peaceself-control
- 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.
- Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
- The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14dependenceprotection
- The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9salvationconversionrepentance
- Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12humilitygentlenesscompassion
- May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had.
Romans 15:5communityencouragementcomforter
- For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.
- In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait expectantly.
- 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 30:18gracerighteousnesscompassion
- The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
- 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 lifeJesus
- 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.
- Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
- But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
- Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
2 Timothy 4:2evangelismpunishment
- I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 3:11second comingreward
- 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.
- The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Proverbs 10:28righteousnesshopejoy
Peace
- 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 6:24-26graceblessinglight
- I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
John 16:33encouragementovercomingworld
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- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:27encouragementworryingworld
- 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
- Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
- For, “Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.”
- Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.
- In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety.
- You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
- Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15Jesusgratitudebody
- Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13forgivenessneighborreconciliation
- Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
- Better a patient person than a warrior,
one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32patienceself-control
- Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:18righteousnessharvestfruitfulness
- Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
- Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14holinesslifereconciliation
- Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
- Great peace have those who love your law,
and nothing can make them stumble.
- 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.
- Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9listeninglearning
- He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
- 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!”
- The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
- It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
but every fool is quick to quarrel.
- 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 12:11righteousnesschildrenpunishment
- The Lord gives strength to his people;
the Lord blesses his people with peace.
- Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
- Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11lifelovenearness
- Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.
Luke 2:14christmasangelsworship
- 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.
- Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
John 20:21FatherevangelismJesus
- 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 13:20-21covenantresurrectionblessing
- “Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10lovereliabilitycovenant
- Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.
- Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:7bgraceFatherblessing
- The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
- 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.
- Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Pentecost
- 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.
- 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 2:3-4speakingSpiritHoly Spirit
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- 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
- 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 4:31Holy Spiritprayermiracles
- 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
- As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning.
- And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
John 14:16comforterHoly SpiritFather
- 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
- 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 SpiritascensionJesus
Persecution
- Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:10righteousnesskingdom
- In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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- 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 12:10joystrengthweakness
- If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
- 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.
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35lovesufferingpoverty
- But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew 5:11blessingevilgossip
- “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30evangelismblessingeternal life
- Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
- My times are in your hands;
deliver me from the hands of my enemies,
from those who pursue me.
- Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8desiresovercomingdevil
- I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’
- Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4fearencouragementdeath
Planning
- Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.
Proverbs 16:3trustblessingwork
- Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?
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- 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 29:11blessinghopepromises
- In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps.
Proverbs 16:9marriagedependence
- May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.
- Plans fail for lack of counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.
- Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21understandingdependence
- Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
- There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens.
- “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness.
- Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
- All this also comes from the Lord Almighty,
whose plan is wonderful,
whose wisdom is magnificent.
- As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9understandingheaven
- These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10GodSpiritunderstanding
- Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.
- Do not envy the violent
or choose any of their ways.
For the Lord detests the perverse
but takes the upright into his confidence.
Proverbs 3:31-32trustrighteousness
Poverty
- 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
- 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 4:12contentmentfoodlife
- Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9righteousnessspeakinggiving
- All hard work brings a profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23reliabilityspeakingencouragement
- Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
Psalm 82:3orphansneighborrighteousness
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Romans 8:35lovesufferingpersecution
- The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
- Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10sadnessjoymoney
- 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
- The Lord sends poverty and wealth;
he humbles and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7moneyalmightyhumility
- This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6listeningprayersalvation
- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
- If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3lovesufferinggiving
- 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.
- What a person desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22reliabilitymoneygoodness
- Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to assist them.
The one who was dying blessed me;
I made the widow’s heart sing.
Job 29:12-13widowsorphanssinging
- 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
- A person’s riches may ransom their life,
but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
Proverbs 13:8moneymaterialismfear
- 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 3:11materialismgivingneighbor
Praise
- 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
- Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
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- The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,
and with my song I praise him.
Psalm 28:7trustworshipstrength
- Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Psalm 103:1holinessworshipsoul
- Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
- I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1worshipgratitudemiracles
- About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25worshipprayerlistening
- 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.
- Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
his greatness no one can fathom.
Psalm 145:3worshipunderstandingalmighty
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14creationmiraclessoul
- My mouth is filled with your praise,
declaring your splendor all day long.
- I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
Psalm 34:1worshipblessingspeaking
- 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 5:13creationworshipgratitude
- 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
- Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
Psalm 105:1speakingevangelismworship
- Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:8truthrighteousnessthoughts
- I will exalt you, my God the King;
I will praise your name for ever and ever.
Psalm 145:1worshipeternal life
- It is written: ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’
Romans 14:11humilityworshipacknowledging
- In that day you will say:
“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.”
Isaiah 12:4speakingevangelismworship
- In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?
Psalm 56:4trustfearWord of God
- Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;
save me and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise.
Jeremiah 17:14sicknesshealingsalvation
- Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Acts 2:46-47worshipfoodcommunity
- I will praise you with an upright heart
as I learn your righteous laws.
- I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.
Daniel 2:23worshipwisdomprayer
- I cried out to him with my mouth;
his praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:17worshipprayersinging
- At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.”
Job 1:20-21worshipsufferingsadness
- I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
I will sing of you among the peoples.
Psalm 108:3worshipworldsinging
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- Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.
- 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.
- The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
Prayer
- Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18joygratitude
- 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 4:6-7gratitudeworryingfear
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- This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
- Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Jeremiah 29:12worshiplistening
- Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
- The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
- Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3understandinglistening
- And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
- For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
Matthew 18:20Jesuscommunitychurch
- 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.
- About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25worshiplisteningpraise
- In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came before him, into his ears.
- 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.
- And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
- 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 5:16righteousnesshealingsickness
- 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.
- 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 15:16obediencecallingfruitfulness
- The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
- And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- I cried out to him with my mouth;
his praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:17worshippraisesinging
- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
- You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
- If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
- In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
Romans 8:26speakingSpiritweakness
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- In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait expectantly.
- 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.
3 John 1:2blessingsoulsickness
- By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
- Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
Psalm 143:1reliabilityrighteousnessfaithfulness
- When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord;
he brought me into a spacious place.
Psalm 118:5dependencecomforter
- For I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.
Philippians 1:19salvationSpirit
- Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41temptationdesiresaddiction
- For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12righteousnesslisteningevil
- So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
- May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
- 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 11:13Spiritfamilygenerosity
- 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 5:14-15sicknessfaithhealing
- This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6listeningsalvationpoverty
- But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
- 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 11:25forgivenessFathersin
- So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
Acts 12:5neighbordependencecommunity
- And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
- 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.
- 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 20:5sadnesshealingprophecy
- I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.
Daniel 2:23worshipwisdompraise
- 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 4:31pentecostHoly Spiritmiracles
- Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.
- 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.
- So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
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- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
- And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
- 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 6:9-10Fatherhumilityworld
- 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.”
- 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.
- They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2:42communityobediencebread
- 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 3:21-22baptismSpiritJesus
- I will strengthen Judah
and save the tribes of Joseph.
I will restore them
because I have compassion on them.
They will be as though
I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God
and I will answer them.
Zechariah 10:6strengthlisteningcompassion
- 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.
- 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.
- Give us today our daily bread.
Pride
- When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.
- To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
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- Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Romans 12:16humilitycommunitydependence
- Pride brings a person low,
but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
- But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
2 Corinthians 10:17-18reliability
- 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.”
- Before a downfall the heart is haughty,
but humility comes before honor.
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
- For 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 2:16desiresaddictionworld
- 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 1:28-29humilitycallingworld
- 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.
- 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 4:37righteousnesshumilityworship
- 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 6:17moneyjoymaterialism
- If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3lovesufferinggiving
Promises
- So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10fearstrengthworrying
- 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 29:11planningblessinghope
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- 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 40:31hopeencouragementstrength
- When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.
- 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 5:24callingfaithfulnessWord of God
- 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 5:10graceeternal lifesuffering
- 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 11:25-26faithdeathresurrection
- The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9salvationpatienceconversion
- Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7rewardseekingreceiving
- 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
- 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 7:1purificationholinessawe
- 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 3:20obediencefoodlistening
- I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
- 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 3:5overcomingheavenacknowledging
- Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
- Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3purificationfamilyheaven
- 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 lifefaith
- Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
Joshua 23:14reliabilityheartsoul
- 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 23:19Godreliabilitylying
- For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8healthobediencelife
- 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.
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
- I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
- 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 8:6Jesuscovenantmediator
- For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
- When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
Prophecy
- But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22understandingevil
- 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.
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- 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 1:21SpiritspeakingHoly Spirit
- Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
- Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.
- 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 20:5prayersadnesshealing
- Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
Matthew 7:15second comingclothing
- So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12lawneighborrelationships
- You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:4salvationovercomingalmighty
- 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 2:19-20Jesuskingdomchurch
- 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.
- 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 7:14christmasJesusmiracles
- 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 3:21-22faithlawrighteousness
- 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 9:9easterhumilityrighteousness
- 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 1:22-23miraclesJesuschristmas
- 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.
- 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.
- You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22truthspeaking
Protection
- Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ephesians 6:11equipmentevilidols
- You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance.
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- God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
- 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 31:6reliabilityfearcourage
- So we say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to 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 54:17righteousnessjudgmentidols
- You make your saving help my shield,
and your right hand sustains me;
your help has made me great.
You provide a broad path for my feet,
so that my ankles do not give way.
Psalm 18:35-36salvationWord of God
- Keep me safe, my God,
for in you I take refuge.
- The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14patiencedependence
- The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?
- You are my refuge and my shield;
I have put my hope in your word.
- I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13Godstrengthweakness
- Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4reliabilityequipment
- As for God, his way is perfect:
The Lord’s word is flawless;
he shields all who take refuge in him.
Psalm 18:30blamelessWord of God
- But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.
Psalm 59:16reliabilitystrengthsinging
- Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23lifeheartthoughts
- But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, the One who lifts my head high.
- What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
- It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in humans.
- Every word of God is flawless;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
the righteous run to it and are safe.
- 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 26:53JesusangelsFather
- He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Psalm 91:4reliabilitysafetyfaithfulness
- For who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?
- Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17righteousnessneighborwidows
- The Lord will rescue his servants;
no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 34:22salvationlifeserving
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- The Lord is good,
a refuge in times of trouble.
He cares for those who trust in him.
- 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 4:18evilheavenworship
- Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Psalm 62:2salvationreliabilitysafety
- As for God, his way is perfect:
The Lord’s word is flawless;
he shields all who take refuge in him.
2 Samuel 22:31blamelessWord of God
- The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 27:12mindsafetypunishment
- Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Psalm 40:11lovereliabilitymercy
- For he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:8righteousnessobediencefaithfulness
- ‘Never again will they hunger;
never again will they thirst.
The sun will not beat down on them,’
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’
Revelation 7:16-17encouragementsadnesscomforter
- The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
- And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
- He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
Proverbs 2:7righteousnessblessingblameless
- Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Ephesians 6:13evildeviltemptation
- 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 3:17churchcommunityholiness
- 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 Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
- The Lord watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Psalm 146:9orphanswidowspunishment
- Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
Punishment
- 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 3:11-12loveFatherlearning
- The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Proverbs 27:12mindsafetyprotection
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- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Revelation 3:19lovelifeconversion
- 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.
- 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 anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.
- But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 12:48righteousnessobedience
- 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.
- Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
- Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16faithsalvationbaptism
- Blessed is the one whom God corrects;
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
- 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
- Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
- Walk with the wise and become wise,
for a companion of fools suffers harm.
- 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
- I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
- Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
2 Timothy 4:2evangelismpatience
- God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing;
but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Psalm 68:6freedomobediencefriendship
- 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 2:9temptationjudgmentsalvation
- 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!
- The Lord watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Psalm 146:9protectionorphanswidows
- Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4moneyrighteousnessmaterialism
- 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
Purification
- 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 7:1holinessawepromises
- He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Mark 7:20-23sintemptationanger
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- Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
- Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8sinrighteousnessrepentance
- You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 15:3Word of Godspeakingevil
- Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
- But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1:7sacrificecommunitylight
- 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 3:2-3familyheavenchildren
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26loverelationshipsmarriage
- 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 2:14sacrificegoodnesssin
- And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.
- 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 9:14JesusSpiritsacrifice
- And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:21baptismsalvationresurrection
- Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
Daniel 12:10sinunderstandingwisdom
- The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
- “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 1:18sinforgivenessblood
Rebirth
- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17creationJesus
- Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
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- For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
- For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
- 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 1:3hoperesurrectioneaster
- 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 1:6Jesussecond coming
- Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
- Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”
- He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5salvationHoly Spiritmercy
- Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7loveneighborfriendship
- Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2:2salvationfoodWord of God
Recieving
- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Colossians 3:23-24rewardlifework
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
John 16:24reliabilityjoyblameless
- Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7rewardseekingpromises
- 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
- 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 6:38rewardgivinggenerosity
- 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.
- I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land.
- Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
Matthew 10:8healinggivingsickness
- As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
- Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementbody
- 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?
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6righteousnessblessingfood
- 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
- 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 3:12-13joylifefood
- But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
John 4:14eternal lifetransformation
- We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Acts 5:32obedienceSpiritHoly Spirit
- 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.
- His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
- 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 1:18understandinghopelight
- The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
- 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.
- But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Reconcilation
- 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 5:19sinsalvationJesus
- Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32forgivenesscompassiongoodness
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13forgivenesspeaceneighbor
- Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14holinesspeacelife
- If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
Matthew 18:15sinspeakinglistening
- Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Acts 3:19conversionsinforgiveness
- For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2sinSaviorforgiveness
- Help us, God our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.
Redeemer
- 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.
- I love you, Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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 5:1Jesuslifeaddiction
- The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:17-18salvationnearnesssadness
- 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 2:14sacrificepurificationgoodness
- I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22sinsalvationconversion
- So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36Jesusfreedomaddiction
- 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 61:10righteousnessjoymarriage
- 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 8:1-2lawjudgmentpunishment
- The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Psalm 34:19righteousnesssufferingfreedom
- My lips will shout for joy
when I sing praise to you—
I whom you have delivered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 97:10reliabilityevilfreedom
- Help us, God our Savior,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
for your name’s sake.
- 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.
- My times are in your hands;
deliver me from the hands of my enemies,
from those who pursue me.
Psalm 31:15persecutionsalvation
- In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
Psalm 31:1righteousnessdependence
- Save me, Lord,
from lying lips
and from deceitful tongues.
Relationships
- Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12friendshipstrength
- A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Proverbs 31:10valuablemarriage
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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 4:10friendshipneighbor
- 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 1:5-7faithgoodnessself-control
- You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
there is no flaw in you.
Song of songs 4:7beautymarriage
- Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26lovepurificationmarriage
- So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12lawneighborprophecy
- Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18-19humilitymarriage
- Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor.
Ecclesiastes 4:9friendshipwork
- Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14lawrighteousnesslight
- The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
- Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
- May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12loveneighbor
- But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2desiresmarriage
- As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another.
- Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
- A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17friendshipfamily
- Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23marriageJesussalvation
- A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
- In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:19lovefamilyfriendship
- However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Reliability
- But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3safetystrengthdevil
- 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.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- 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.
- What a person desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22moneygoodnesspoverty
- He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber.
- 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 3:22-23lovecompassionfaithfulness
- Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.
Psalm 55:22righteousnesssafety
- 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 10:13temptationaddictiondesires
- The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Deuteronomy 31:8followingfearencouragement
- The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
- The Lord will vindicate me;
your love, Lord, endures forever—
do not abandon the works of your hands.
Psalm 138:8Godsafetyfaithfulness
- Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34worshipgratitudefaithfulness
- His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Matthew 25:21rewardblessingserving
- But I will sing of your strength,
in the morning I will sing of your love;
for you are my fortress,
my refuge in times of trouble.
Psalm 59:16strengthprotectionsinging
- The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
- A gossip betrays a confidence,
but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
Proverbs 11:13speakinggossiplying
- 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 103:17-18lawfamilycovenant
- Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
John 16:24joyreceivingblameless
- But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.
- 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 1:17Fatherblamelesslight
- “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 lifeGodsecond coming
- You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you.
- 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 liferighteousnessfaithfulness
- You, Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures from generation to generation.
- For he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things.
- The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24callingfaithfulnessWord of God
- God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23hopeacknowledgingpromises
- Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4equipmentprotection
- 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 31:6fearprotectioncourage
- If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
- 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 97:10redeemerevilfreedom
- The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:2bseekingnearness
- For the word of the Lord is right and true;
he is faithful in all he does.
- As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
- Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- All hard work brings a profit,
but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23speakingencouragementpoverty
- For who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?
- Those who know your name trust in you,
for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
- Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but give me only my daily bread.
Proverbs 30:8materialismfoodmoney
- When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
- He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
Psalm 91:4protectionsafetyfaithfulness
- God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9JesuscallingGod
- But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
- Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Psalm 62:2salvationprotectionsafety
- 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 Godspeakingfruitfulness
- Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
Psalm 143:1righteousnessprayerfaithfulness
- Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:25honestyrighteousness
- Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Psalm 40:11loveprotectionmercy
- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
- The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.
Isaiah 40:8GodWord of Godbeauty
- The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:17righteousnessgoodnessfaithfulness
- Bible Verses About Hope
- May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
even as we put our hope in you.
- 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.
- I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18comforterJesusSpirit
- “Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
- Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 12:28Word of Godobedience
- ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 1:3bconversionrepentanceobedience
- The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless,
but it is the ruin of those who do evil.
- Here is a trustworthy saying:
If we died with him,
we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:11Word of Goddeatheternal life
- See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:4righteousnesslifefaith
- The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love.
- May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors; may he never leave us nor forsake us.
- 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 who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?
- All your words are true;
all your righteous laws are eternal.
- ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 19:18b-19lawlovefamily
- Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
without revealing his plan
to his servants the prophets.
- An honest witness does not deceive,
but a false witness pours out lies.
- 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?
- The Lord detests lying lips,
but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
Proverbs 12:22lyingspeakinghonesty
- 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 5:18Word of Godlawheaven
- Teach me your way, Lord,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
- For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
- When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
Repentance
- If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14humilityforgivenesshealing
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- Bible Verses About Hope
- Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
Acts 3:19conversionsinforgiveness
- Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Proverbs 28:13sinconfessionmercy
- Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
Matthew 3:8conversionlifefruitfulness
- For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9bgraceconversionforgiveness
- The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9salvationpatienceconversion
- From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:17Jesusconversionevangelism
- But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 9:13mercyrighteousnesssacrifice
- Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8sinpurificationrighteousness
- 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.
- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Revelation 3:19lovelifepunishment
- 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.
- For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Ezekiel 18:32conversiondeatheternal life
- In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Acts 17:30conversionforgiveness
- “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Mark 1:15kingdomconversionfaith
- I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 1:3bconversionreliabilityobedience
- I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
- In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
- 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
- Repent at my rebuke!
Then I will pour out my thoughts to you,
I will make known to you my teachings.
Proverbs 1:23conversionwisdomSpirit
- 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-4sinforgivenessspeaking
- My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
Rest
- Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28hopeencouragementweakness
- Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
- In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety.
- 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.’”
- The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters.
Psalm 23:1-2blessingdependence
- Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
Psalm 91:1-2trustsafetyalmighty
- Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
- 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.
Matthew 11:29-30humilitylearning
- There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.
- Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
- The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
1 Peter 4:7second comingprayer
- Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.
Ressurection
- 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 11:25-26faithdeathpromises
- “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 16:6Jesuseastercrucifixion
- 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 24:6-7Jesuseastercrucifixion
- 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 4:14faithJesus
- The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.”
Matthew 28:5-6SaviorJesuseaster
- 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.
- For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
- 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 15:3-4sinsacrificeJesus
- For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
- For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Romans 6:5-6sinaddictionslavery
- 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 3:10sufferingJesus
- 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 13:20-21peacecovenantblessing
- We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!
Matthew 20:18-19easterJesussacrifice
- Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
John 20:8-9miracleseasterunderstanding
- And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:21baptismsalvationpurification
- 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.
- 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 20:6deathkingdomMessiah
- But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:22-23evangelismsufferingSavior
- 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 3:26Jesusblessingconversion
Reward
- Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Colossians 3:23-24lifereceivingwork
- God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”
- Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58obedienceencouragementwork
- 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 6:9righteousnesspatienceharvest
- His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
Matthew 25:21reliabilityblessingserving
- 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 3:3-4loveheartvaluable
- A gift opens the way
and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.
- Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
- However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him.
- 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.
- 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 5:33obediencefollowing
- Humility is the fear of the Lord;
its wages are riches and honor and life.
- 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 6:38givingreceivinggenerosity
- I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7seekingreceivingpromises
- And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
- A wicked person earns deceptive wages,
but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:18sinrighteousness
- Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
- Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
- Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23sineternal lifejudgment
- 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.”
- 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 comingJesus
- For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
2 Corinthians 4:17eternal lifesufferingencouragement
- If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
- Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10obediencerelationships
- Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
1 Corinthians 9:25self-controleternal life
- Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10sadnessjoymoney
- 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 11:11trustfaithfruitfulness
- 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 15:5Jesusdependencefruitfulness
- Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in forced labor.
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
- I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 3:11second comingpatience
- Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter 1:4desiresworldpromises
- 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 3:21overcomingheavenJesus
- 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.
- 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 1:10-11callingobediencekingdom
- 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 4:7-8faithrighteousnessjudgment
- 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.
- If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7conversionwidowsorphans
- When 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.
Righteousness
- Whoever pursues righteousness and love
finds life, prosperity and honor.
- God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”
- Bible Verses About Hope
- But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
- 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 lifereliabilityfaithfulness
- Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
- A person may think their own ways are right,
but the Lord weighs the heart.
Proverbs 21:2judgmentunderstandingthoughts
- But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Surely the righteous will never be shaken;
they will be remembered forever.
- To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
- But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”
- The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry.
- 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 6:9rewardpatienceharvest
- Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
1 Thessalonians 5:15blamelessevil
- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:8truththoughtspraise
- 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 2:11-12gracesalvationworld
- Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers.
- Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:18peaceharvestfruitfulness
- Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,
but righteousness delivers from death.
- A wicked person earns deceptive wages,
but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
- And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
- Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6blessingreceivingfood
- I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.
- It is a trap to dedicate something rashly
and only later to consider one’s vows.
- Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8sinpurificationrepentance
- 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 5:16healingprayersickness
- The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Psalm 34:19sufferingredeemerfreedom
- Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9speakinggivingwidows
- “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 54:17judgmentprotectionidols
- Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 1:17neighborwidowsorphans
- Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.
- 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.
- But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
- 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.”
- 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 lifeholinessthoughts
- Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:10kingdompersecution
- Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin condemns any people.
- 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.
- 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 12:11peacechildrenpunishment
- With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
but through knowledge the righteous escape.
Proverbs 11:9speakingwisdomgossip
- Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14lawrelationshipslight
- Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
- Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8moneycontentmenthonesty
- Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked;
for the power of the wicked will be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.
- The lips of the righteous know what finds favor,
but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32truthspeakinglying
- 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 61:10joyredeemermarriage
- For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12prayerlisteningevil
- 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 3:21-22faithlawprophecy
- Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
- For the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
the Lord is our king;
it is he who will save us.
- But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 9:13mercysacrificerepentance
- There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death.
- God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
- You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14evangelismlifelight
- “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.”
- 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 7:9-10evilneighborgentleness
- The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love.
- In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
- Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
- “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
- The Lord is righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:17reliabilitygoodnessfaithfulness
- 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 30:18gracepatiencecompassion
- The name of the righteous is used in blessings,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
- 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 9:10foodgivinggenerosity
- Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
- Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to the law of the Lord.
- 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.
- He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
Proverbs 2:7blessingprotectionblameless
- Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
Psalm 143:1reliabilityprayerfaithfulness
- For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Ezekiel 18:32conversiondeatheternal life
- Do not envy the violent
or choose any of their ways.
For the Lord detests the perverse
but takes the upright into his confidence.
- For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
- 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.
- The tongue of the righteous is choice silver,
but the heart of the wicked is of little value.
Proverbs 10:20valuablespeaking
- Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”
Acts 10:34-35obedienceevangelism
- Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 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.
- Blessings crown the head of the righteous,
but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
- But he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
My feet have closely followed his steps;
I have kept to his way without turning aside.
- Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4moneymaterialismpunishment
- Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:25honestyreliability
- Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
Romans 6:13sinsacrificeconversion
- I instruct you in the way of wisdom
and lead you along straight paths.
- Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
- But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
- The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously.
- Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
Psalm 82:3orphansneighborweakness
- See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.
Habakkuk 2:4lifereliabilityfaith
- The Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.
Psalm 146:8sicknesshealingsadness
- 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 15:26listeningsicknesshealing
- I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
- 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 4:12lawjudgmentsalvation
- Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 15:34sinconversionunderstanding
- 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 55:7conversionforgivenesslife
- The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
- 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 4:7-8faithrewardjudgment
- Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:27evilfollowingself-control
- 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.
- 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 4:37humilityworshippride
- For he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:8protectionobediencefaithfulness
- He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5salvationHoly Spiritrebirth
- Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
- The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
- “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 10:23lawgoodnessfood
- 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.