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Law

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 6:15

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
1 Corinthians 10:23

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deuteronomy 30:16

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Joshua 1:8

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:20

And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:1

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12

But the steadfast love of the Lord is

from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
to those who keep his covenant

and remember to do his commandments.
Psalm 103:17-18

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
Deuteronomy 10:12-13

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:12

He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8

With my whole heart I seek you;
let me not wander from your commandments!
Psalm 119:10

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Joshua 22:5

For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:12

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 3:21-22

But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24

I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
I set your rules before me.
Psalm 119:30

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:21

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:7

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:14

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 14:15

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Romans 10:4

And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn.
1 Kings 2:3

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1 Corinthians 15:56

The wise of heart will receive commandments,
but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Proverbs 10:8

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:9

Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 7:1

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10

You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 19:18b-19

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Acts 13:38-39

Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord!
Psalm 119:1

My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
for length of days and years of life

and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:1-2

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:25

Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble.
Psalm 119:165

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction.
Romans 3:21-22

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
Galatians 3:5

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 7:9

I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 20:19-20

Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life;
he who despises his ways will die.
Proverbs 19:16

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:13

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:15-16

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
John 14:21

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:15

Your testimonies are my heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalm 119:111

The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
Psalm 119:160

The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple.
Psalm 19:7

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Galatians 2:21

Incline my heart to your testimonies,
and not to selfish gain!
Psalm 119:36

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
1 John 3:24

And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezekiel 36:27

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who greatly delights in his commandments!
Psalm 112:1

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Genesis 26:4-5

I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have given me life.
Psalm 119:93

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
John 15:10

In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and remembrance

are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26:8

If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:17

Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29

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.
Matthew 5:17

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Matthew 5:18

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:12

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all those who practice it have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever!
Psalm 111:10

Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
Proverbs 4:10

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5

If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
Exodus 15:26

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21

The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,
but destruction to evildoers.
Proverbs 10:29

So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 22:31

But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:21

And I shall walk in a wide place,
for I have sought your precepts.
Psalm 119:45

We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Daniel 9:5

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:34

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 6:17

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28

I hasten and do not delay

to keep your commandments.
Psalm 119:60

In the way of your testimonies I delight

as much as in all riches.
Psalm 119:14

I will praise you with an upright heart,
when I learn your righteous rules.
Psalm 119:7

And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:13

And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.
Numbers 15:39

You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
Exodus 20:23

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Galatians 5:4

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:11

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
Exodus 24:12

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:39

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Job 23:12

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Deuteronomy 4:2

If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:3-4

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.
Exodus 20:17

The precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
Psalm 19:8

So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
Deuteronomy 8:6

Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40

And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.
Deuteronomy 6:25

Learning

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Psalm 32:8

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
Psalm 25:4

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline

or be weary of his reproof,
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:16

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 12:1

Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
Psalm 25:5

I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Proverbs 4:11

Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God!
Let your good Spirit lead me

on level ground!
Psalm 143:10

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:29-30

Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
Psalm 25:8-9

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 John 2:27

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
Titus 2:1

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20

So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.”
John 7:16

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
Acts 5:42

My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:9

Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8:5

Teach me your way, O Lord,
that I may walk in your truth;
unite my heart to fear your name.
Psalm 86:11

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 14:26

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house.
Acts 20:20

May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.
Deuteronomy 32:2

Life

The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep

your going out and your coming in

from this time forth and forevermore.
Psalm 121:7-8

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16

As in water face reflects face,
so the heart of man reflects the man.
Proverbs 27:19

For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness

will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Mark 8:36

My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart

and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26

For “Whoever desires to love life

and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:10-11

For you are my rock and my fortress;
and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me.
Psalm 31:3

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 4:23

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
Psalm 25:4

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
John 6:35

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!
Psalm 37:7

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

forever.
Psalm 23:6

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Proverbs 13:3

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’
John 7:38

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Ecclesiastes 7:10

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
James 3:13

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,
but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Proverbs 10:17

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul;
he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 19:8

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Ecclesiastes 7:14

Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.
Psalm 37:5-6

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Matthew 6:34

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 16:25

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life.
Philippians 2:14-16a

This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24

The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
“I the Lord search the heart

and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9

My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
for length of days and years of life

and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:1-2

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:25

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:1

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:22

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Luke 11:28

Behold, God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life.
Psalm 54:4

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:3-4

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
James 1:12

You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 16:11

For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 14:8

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
Proverbs 10:9

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Matthew 16:26

I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have given me life.
Psalm 119:93

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:15

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12

There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.
Proverbs 14:12

Ponder the path of your feet;
then all your ways will be sure.
Proverbs 4:26

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:6

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
Philippians 4:12

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
James 2:17

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Romans 12:18

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11

Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
Proverbs 4:10

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Revelation 3:19

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10:3

Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
Luke 12:22b-23

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,
the world and those who dwell therein.
Psalm 24:1

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”.
Ecclesiastes 12:1

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:12

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10:10

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Genesis 50:20

The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 34:22

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live.”
Amos 5:4

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
1 Corinthians 8:6

Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord!
Psalm 119:1

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:18

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
Isaiah 57:15

Teach me your way, O Lord,
that I may walk in your truth;
unite my heart to fear your name.
Psalm 86:11

For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Acts 17:28

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 20:24

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Revelation 3:5

For a thousand years in your sight

are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
Psalm 90:4

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
1 Peter 1:18-19

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
Matthew 3:8

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
1 Peter 2:16

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
Philippians 1:23-24

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15

Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:7

But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15-16

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:13

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Ecclesiastes 9:7

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.
2 Peter 1:3

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:11

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
John 1:3

Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Habakkuk 2:4

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 8:35

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3

Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.
Ecclesiastes 5:18

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Hebrews 12:1

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Hebrews 3:14

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
Luke 9:24

You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Leviticus 20:26

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
2 Timothy 3:12

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Romans 6:1-2

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
John 6:57

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
Luke 12:24

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Colossians 3:9-10

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.”
Genesis 1:29

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
Psalm 104:33

Light

Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Isaiah 60:1

Your word is a lamp to my feet

and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5:14

The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26

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?
Psalm 27:1

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’
Acts 13:47

Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 5:15-16

He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what is in the darkness,
and the light dwells with him.
Daniel 2:22

The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.
Psalm 119:130

Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.
Psalm 37:5-6

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:5

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 cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1:3

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.
Ephesians 1:18

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9

No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.
Luke 8:16

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
James 1:17

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8

Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
Luke 12:3

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
Psalm 80:19

For not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
and the light of your face,
for you delighted in them.
Psalm 44:3

Make your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love!
Psalm 31:16

To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:22-23

The precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
Psalm 19:8

For the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true.
Ephesians 5:9

Listening

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.
James 1:19

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Luke 11:28

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Jeremiah 33:3

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:22

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 5:14

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Jeremiah 29:12

I love the Lord, because he has heard

my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1-2

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good,
and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
Proverbs 16:20

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:15

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 10:17

In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psalm 18:6

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,
but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Proverbs 10:17

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Psalm 5:3

If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
Malachi 2:2

My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.
Proverbs 4:20-21

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous

and his ears toward their cry.
Psalm 34:15

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
Deuteronomy 13:4

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
Galatians 3:5

Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
Luke 12:3

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matthew 4:4

My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:20

If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 18:15

I sought the Lord, and he answered me

and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalm 34:4

I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isaiah 65:1

But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me.
Micah 7:7

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:25

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
Psalm 130:1-2

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 12:1

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
Zechariah 1:4

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
1 John 2:24

I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph.
I will bring them back because I have compassion on them,
and they shall be as though I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
Zechariah 10:6

Love

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:14

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good success

in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:3-4

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:16

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Romans 12:9

That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love.
Ephesians 3:16-17

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:12

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:5

Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:15-16

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 12:10

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:20

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord.
Song of songs 8:6

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:18

But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”
1 Corinthians 2:9

Because you are precious in my eyes,
and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
peoples in exchange for your life.
Isaiah 43:4

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness

will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21

Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 10:12

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Mark 12:30

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Jude 1:2

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
1 Corinthians 10:24

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.
Ephesians 4:15

I love the Lord, because he has heard

my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1-2

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1

For “Whoever desires to love life

and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:10-11

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44

For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
Psalm 30:5

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:35

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10

The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 103:8

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8

You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:17-18

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
2 Peter 1:5-7

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:2

Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:3-4

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11

When I thought, “My foot slips,”
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
Psalm 94:18

Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:1-2

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:11

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:34

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 14:15

“For the mountains may depart

and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
Psalm 86:5

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:35

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Revelation 3:19

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
John 14:21

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4-5

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline

or be weary of his reproof,
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Galatians 5:13

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11

He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
Psalm 33:5

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalm 57:10

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
John 14:23

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ.
Colossians 2:2

One thing have I asked of the Lord,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord

and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 27:4

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 13:14

As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Psalm 103:13

I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17:26

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
2 Thessalonians 1:3

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:39

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
1 John 4:21

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

Make your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love!
Psalm 31:16

As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
Psalm 40:11

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21

But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
1 John 3:17

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
John 15:10

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
Psalm 115:1

And rend your hearts and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Joel 2:13

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Galatians 5:6

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
who greatly delights in his commandments!
Psalm 112:1

For not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
and the light of your face,
for you delighted in them.
Psalm 44:3

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark 12:33

Lying

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 12:22

For “Whoever desires to love life

and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:10-11

Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 120:2

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right

and speaks truth in his heart;
who does not slander with his tongue

and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend.
Psalm 15:2-3

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Mark 7:20-23

Keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from speaking deceit.
Psalm 34:13

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips,
and whoever utters slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:18

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
1 John 1:6

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely,
but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.
Proverbs 10:9

A dishonest man spreads strife,
and a whisperer separates close friends.
Proverbs 16:28

A faithful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies.
Proverbs 14:5

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44

Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me.
Proverbs 30:8

Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Matthew 5:11

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil

and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 8:13

A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 15:4

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
Acts 5:3-4

Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a prince.
Proverbs 17:7

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets,
but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.
Proverbs 11:13

Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.
Proverbs 4:24

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32

God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Numbers 23:19

Marriage

He who finds a wife finds a good thing

and obtains favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:4-6

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Colossians 3:18-19

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Hebrews 13:4

An excellent wife who can find?
She is far more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 31:10

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26

The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 16:9

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Genesis 2:18

When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Deuteronomy 24:5

And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 2:22-24

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Ephesians 5:22-23

You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you.
Song of songs 4:7

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 7:3-4

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 Peter 3:7

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Ephesians 5:31

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:28

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:5

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-28

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10

Materialism

For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
1 Timothy 6:7-8

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:10

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Matthew 6:19-20

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Mark 8:36

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Luke 12:15

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5

As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:9

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord

than great treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 15:16

As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:15

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21

How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 16:16

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 19:21

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
1 Timothy 2:9-10

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
1 Timothy 6:17

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5

Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me.
Proverbs 30:8

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Matthew 16:26

But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy 6:6

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 22:1

All day long he craves and craves,
but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
Proverbs 21:26

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4

Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:4-5

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
Acts 4:32

A rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
and like a high wall in his imagination.
Proverbs 18:11

But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
1 John 3:17

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Matthew 6:24

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”
Lamentations 3:24

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:11

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 3:11

The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth,
but a poor man hears no threat.
Proverbs 13:8

Mediator

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:5

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6

Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
Galatians 3:20

And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8:27

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
John 17:15

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Hebrews 8:6

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21

Mercy

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16

Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 9:13

Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy

blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
Psalm 51:1-2

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity

and passing over transgression

for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
Micah 7:18

For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
2 Chronicles 30:9b

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14

Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
Psalm 25:6-7

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1

As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
Psalm 40:11

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Romans 6:15

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!
Psalm 90:17

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

forever.
Psalm 23:6

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.
Psalm 112:5

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah 9:31

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
Psalm 130:1-2

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Proverbs 28:13

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
Romans 5:15

Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:7

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
Matthew 18:21-22

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 13:14

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake.
Philippians 1:29

Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
I will not be angry forever.
Jeremiah 3:12b

Messiah

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Matthew 16:15-16

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:44

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.
Acts 5:42

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:6

Mind

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Colossians 3:2

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Matthew 22:37

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul;
he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 19:8

For in much wisdom is much vexation,
and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18

The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:12

Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
James 3:13

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
and the one who gets understanding.
Proverbs 3:13

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 12:3

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Proverbs 17:28

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:2

A fool despises his father’s instruction,
but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 15:5

Miracle

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Mark 10:27

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Mark 9:23

But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
Luke 18:27

Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?
Jeremiah 32:27

But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”
Luke 8:50

For nothing will be impossible with God.
Luke 1:37

For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 139:13-14

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
Luke 9:16-17

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
Luke 13:10-17

And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.”
Matthew 21:21

But when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out, for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”
Mark 6:49-50

And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
Acts 22:7

And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
Acts 1:9

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4:31

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
John 20:8-9

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
Matthew 1:22-23

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:18

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.
1 Samuel 12:24

Money

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle,
but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 13:11

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:9

The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
and he adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 10:22

Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
Proverbs 23:4

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:10

Honor the Lord with your wealth

and with the firstfruits of all your produce.
Proverbs 3:9

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord

than great treasure and trouble with it.
Proverbs 15:16

And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
Luke 12:15

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Romans 13:7

How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 16:16

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
1 Chronicles 29:14

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
1 Timothy 6:17

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Matthew 25:21

Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me.
Proverbs 30:8

What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
and a poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Timothy 6:10

Better is the little that the righteous has

than the abundance of many wicked.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the Lord upholds the righteous.
Psalm 37:16-17

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold.
Proverbs 22:1

Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
for suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:4-5

For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Romans 13:6

A rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
and like a high wall in his imagination.
Proverbs 18:11

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10:2

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4

In the way of your testimonies I delight

as much as in all riches.
Psalm 119:14

For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deuteronomy 15:6

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Luke 14:28

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
Philippians 4:12

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:19

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Matthew 6:24

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
1 Chronicles 29:12

But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
1 John 3:17

House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14

The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10

Better is a little with righteousness

than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8

The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:7

The wicked borrows but does not pay back,
but the righteous is generous and gives.
Psalm 37:21

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42:10

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Matthew 13:22

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5:11

You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.
Exodus 20:23

The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth,
but a poor man hears no threat.
Proverbs 13:8

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
James 1:9-10

Nearness

The Lord is with you while 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 15:2b

Seek the Lord and his strength;
seek his presence continually!
1 Chronicles 16:11

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears

and delivers them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

and saves the crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:17-18

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand.
Philippians 4:5

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
2 Thessalonians 3:16

One thing have I asked of the Lord,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord

and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 27:4

You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm 16:11

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:13

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:13

Seek the Lord and his strength;
seek his presence continually!
Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near.
Isaiah 55:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord

forever.
Psalm 23:6

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11

For a day in your courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalm 84:10

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
1 Kings 8:57

Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah 9:31

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
John 1:18

Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
Luke 10:9

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
John 6:56

My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 42:2

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 3:2

Neighbor

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:31

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
1 Peter 3:8

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
1 Corinthians 10:24

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14

Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:1-2

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Romans 15:2

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Galatians 6:10

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Romans 14:13

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:13

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:34

Learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
Isaiah 1:17

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
Romans 2:1

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 12:10

He who withholds kindness from a friend

forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:14

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Romans 14:5

Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.
Zechariah 7:9-10

But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
1 John 3:17

For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Ecclesiastes 4:10

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:39

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend,
and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near

than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:10

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Romans 12:18

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Romans 15:7

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12

Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Psalm 82:3

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
forget not the afflicted.
Psalm 10:12

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:12

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:12

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 3:11

Honor widows who are truly widows.
1 Timothy 5:3

It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.
Matthew 20:26-27

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Acts 12:5

Obedience

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
John 14:23

My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:20

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
Deuteronomy 5:33

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:22

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,
but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Proverbs 10:17

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:16

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2

For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
Romans 5:19

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 3:21-22

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Luke 6:27-28

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Romans 13:1

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Romans 12:11

Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
who walks in his ways!
Psalm 128:1

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Luke 9:23

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:14

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Acts 5:32

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1

And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:11

So that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
Romans 15:32

Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God!
Let your good Spirit lead me

on level ground!
Psalm 143:10

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Galatians 5:17

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:17

For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10

My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
Let them not escape from your sight;
keep them within your heart.
Proverbs 4:20-21

I hasten and do not delay

to keep your commandments.
Psalm 119:60

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:36

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20

The steps of a man are established by the Lord,
when he delights in his way.
Psalm 37:23

Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2:6-8

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
Exodus 19:5

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:25

Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.
Zechariah 1:3b

Hear, my son, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
Proverbs 4:10

So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 22:31

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:10-11

And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.
Hebrews 5:9

Get wisdom; get insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:5

So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
Deuteronomy 8:6

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:11

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
1 Peter 2:21

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Job 23:12

But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:21

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”
Mark 16:15

Guarding the paths of justice

and watching over the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:8

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
Acts 10:34-35

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Romans 14:5

But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Luke 12:48

You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
Matthew 5:13

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 6:17

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 12:28

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21

Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29

Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
Mark 14:36

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.
Deuteronomy 4:2

God settles the solitary in a home;
he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Psalm 68:6

But I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!
Jonah 2:9

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:42

When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
Ecclesiastes 5:4

And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.
Deuteronomy 6:25

Orphans

You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
Exodus 22:22-24

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
John 14:18

Learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
Isaiah 1:17

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Psalm 82:3

Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;
his name is the Lord;
exult before him!
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows

is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:4-5

The Lord watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Psalm 146:9

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
and the fatherless who had none to help him.
The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,
and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:12-13

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7

Overcoming

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21

For nothing will be impossible with God.
Luke 1:37

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:4

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalm 3:3

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:5

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Revelation 3:5

Save us, we pray, O Lord!
O Lord, we pray, give us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
We bless you from the house of the Lord.
Psalm 118:25-26

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9

Patience

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Proverbs 14:29

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:12

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 8:25

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!
Psalm 37:7

Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!
Psalm 27:14

The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.
Exodus 14:14

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:9

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
Colossians 3:12

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus.
Romans 15:5

For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.
Psalm 30:5

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Psalm 5:3

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18

The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 103:8

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Timothy 1:16

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 24:42

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:2

I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
Revelation 3:11

And rend your hearts and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Joel 2:13

The hope of the righteous brings joy,
but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
Proverbs 10:28

Peace

The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 14:27

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called sons of God.
Matthew 5:9

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
2 Thessalonians 3:16

For “Whoever desires to love life

and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.”
1 Peter 3:10-11

In peace I will both lie down and sleep;
for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8

You keep him in perfect peace

whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:13

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Jude 1:2

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
James 3:18

Turn away from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
Psalm 34:14

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:3

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
James 3:17

Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble.
Psalm 119:165

Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
Psalm 46:10

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:6

How beautiful upon the mountains

are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Isaiah 52:7

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling.
Proverbs 20:3

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11

May the Lord give strength to his people!
May the Lord bless his people with peace!
Psalm 29:11

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Romans 12:18

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11

“For the mountains may depart

and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10

Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!
Luke 2:14

My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,
for length of days and years of life

and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:1-2

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 20:21

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
but those who plan peace have joy.
Proverbs 12:20

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:7b

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:34

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Romans 16:20

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
Acts 9:31

Pentecost

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:1-2

And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:3-4

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4:31

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Acts 1:8

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 14:26

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
Acts 11:15

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.
John 14:16

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 2:38

Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Acts 2:33

Persecution

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
2 Timothy 3:12

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:10

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18

Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
Luke 6:22

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:35

Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Matthew 5:11

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44

Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30

My times are in your hand;
rescue me from the hand of my enemies

and from my persecutors!
Psalm 31:15

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
Romans 12:14

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8

And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
Acts 22:7

Even though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4

Planning

Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Luke 14:28

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 16:9

May he grant you your heart’s desire

and fulfill all your plans!
Psalm 20:4

Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 15:22

Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Proverbs 19:21

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
for in you I trust.
Make me know the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8

Do not toil to acquire wealth;
be discerning enough to desist.
Proverbs 23:4

So teach us to number our days

that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12

This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
he is wonderful in counsel

and excellent in wisdom.
Isaiah 28:29

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9

These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
1 Corinthians 2:10

Do not envy a man of violence

and do not choose any of his ways,
for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord,
but the upright are in his confidence.
Proverbs 3:31-32

For the Lord God does nothing

without revealing his secret

to his servants the prophets.
Amos 3:7

Poverty

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Matthew 19:21

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
Philippians 4:12

Open your mouth, judge righteously,
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9

In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Proverbs 14:23

Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Psalm 82:3

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 6:10

The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low and he exalts.
1 Samuel 2:7

The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:7

And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”
Luke 3:11

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:35

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6

Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
give me neither poverty nor riches;
feed me with the food that is needful for me.
Proverbs 30:8

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives

and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
Luke 4:18

What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
and a poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22

The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth,
but a poor man hears no threat.
Proverbs 13:8

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me

to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
Isaiah 61:1

Praise

O Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
Isaiah 25:1

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Psalm 150:6

Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:3-4

The Lord is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,
and with my song I give thanks to him.
Psalm 28:7

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
Psalm 103:1

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and his greatness is unsearchable.
Psalm 145:3

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Psalm 42:11

My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Psalm 71:8

I will bless the Lord at all times;
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalm 34:1

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb

be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
Revelation 5:13

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Colossians 3:16

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;
make known his deeds among the peoples!
Psalm 105:1

I will extol you, my God and King,
and bless your name forever and ever.
Psalm 145:1

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
and every tongue shall confess to God.”
Romans 14:11

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;
save me, and I shall be saved,
for you are my praise.
Jeremiah 17:14

And you will say in that day:
“Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim that his name is exalted.”
Isaiah 12:4

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
Psalm 108:3

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Acts 2:46-47

In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?
Psalm 56:4

I cried to him with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:17

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 1:3

I will praise you with an upright heart,
when I learn your righteous rules.
Psalm 119:7

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Job 1:20-21

To you, O God of my fathers,
I give thanks and praise,
for you have given me wisdom and might,
and have now made known to me what we asked of you,
for you have made known to us the king’s matter.
Daniel 2:23

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
James 3:10

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
Luke 2:20

Prayer

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 John 5:14

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:2

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark 11:24

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
Jeremiah 29:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:12

The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
Psalm 145:18

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.
Jeremiah 33:3

And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Matthew 6:7

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:25

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
Matthew 18:20

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16

In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psalm 18:6

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:6

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:15

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
James 5:16

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
James 1:6

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
1 Peter 4:7

I cried to him with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
Psalm 66:17

All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
Acts 1:14

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:13

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
Luke 6:27-28

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
James 4:2

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.
Matthew 21:22

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Romans 8:26

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
Psalm 5:3

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
3 John 1:2

Hear my prayer, O Lord;
give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Psalm 143:1

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41

Out of my distress I called on the Lord;
the Lord answered me and set me free.
Psalm 118:5

For I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance.
Philippians 1:19

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12

So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
Ezra 8:23

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14-15

Pray then like this:
“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:9-10

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!
Luke 11:13

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 34:6

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:25

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 2:21

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job 42:10

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Acts 12:5

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 4:31

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44

Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
2 Kings 20:5

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:24

I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 17:26

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
forget not the afflicted.
Psalm 10:12

Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Acts 13:3

And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:12

And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:13

And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:42

Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.
Psalm 39:12

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.”
Acts 13:2

Give us this day our daily bread.
Matthew 6:11

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Luke 3:21-22

Pride

When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 11:2

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil

and perverted speech I hate.
Proverbs 8:13

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Romans 12:16

One’s pride will bring him low,
but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 29:23

“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 10:17-18

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7

Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty,
but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 18:12

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:16

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
1 Corinthians 1:28-29

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
1 Timothy 6:17

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Daniel 4:37

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
James 1:9-10

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3

Promises

Fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23

But they who wait for the Lord

shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.
Isaiah 43:2

He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 5:10

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:9

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 7:9

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:1

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20

God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Numbers 23:19

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Revelation 3:5

I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:13

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
2 Peter 1:4

And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
Joshua 23:14

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8

But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Galatians 3:22

I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis 9:11

But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Hebrews 8:6

When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
Ecclesiastes 5:4

Prophecy

But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:21

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1

For the Lord God does nothing

without revealing his secret

to his servants the prophets.
Amos 3:7

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Matthew 7:15

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 7:12

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4

On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
Acts 19:5-6

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:19-20

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14

And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22

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.
Matthew 5:17

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me

one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days.
Micah 5:2

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
Isaiah 6:8

Protection

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Ephesians 6:11

You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
Psalm 32:7

God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
Deuteronomy 31:6

So we can confidently say,
“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear;
what can man do to me?”
Hebrews 13:6

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord

and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17

You have given me the shield of your salvation,
and your right hand supported me,
and your gentleness made me great.
You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.
Psalm 18:35-36

Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
Psalm 16:1

The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.
Exodus 14:14

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
Psalm 118:6

You are my hiding place and my shield;
I hope in your word.
Psalm 119:114

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

Even to your old age I am he,
and to gray hairs I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
I will carry and will save.
Isaiah 46:4

This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 18:30

But I will sing of your strength;
I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning.
For you have been to me a fortress

and a refuge in the day of my distress.
Psalm 59:16

Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 4:23

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalm 3:3

I have set the Lord always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8

He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
Psalm 91:4

It is better to take refuge in the Lord

than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:8

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:53

Every word of God proves true;
he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Proverbs 30:5

The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
Proverbs 18:10

For who is God, but the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God?
2 Samuel 22:32

Learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
Isaiah 1:17

The Lord is good,
a stronghold in the day of trouble;
he knows those who take refuge in him.
Nahum 1:7

The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Psalm 34:22

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
2 Timothy 4:18

He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Psalm 62:2

This God—his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
2 Samuel 22:31

The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:12

Guarding the paths of justice

and watching over the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:8

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Revelation 7:16-17

As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me;
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
Psalm 40:11

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
Ephesians 6:13

And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:13

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
Psalm 9:9

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity.
Proverbs 2:7

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:17

He only is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
Psalm 62:6

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job 1:12

The Lord watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Psalm 146:9

For you bless the righteous, O Lord;
you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Psalm 5:12

Punishment

My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline

or be weary of his reproof,
for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Revelation 3:19

The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 27:12

For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:12

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11

If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:17

Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Ezekiel 18:30b

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:18

Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
Job 5:17

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:11

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 16:16

Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8:5

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 13:20

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
James 5:12

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Luke 13:3

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:2

Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
2 Peter 2:9

God settles the solitary in a home;
he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Psalm 68:6

The Lord watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Psalm 146:9

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew 12:31

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4

Purification

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7:1

Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10

Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy

blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
Psalm 51:1-2

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
John 15:3

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil.
Isaiah 1:16

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 cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.
Ephesians 5:25-26

Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Titus 2:14

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.
Acts 22:16

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 9:14

Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Daniel 12:10

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 3:21

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 1:3

Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
Isaiah 1:18

For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
Psalm 66:10

He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
Joshua 24:23

Rebirth

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.
1 Peter 1:23

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:3

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:6

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
John 3:5

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.
1 Peter 2:2

Recieving

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark 11:24

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
John 16:24

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.
Luke 6:38

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 1:5

I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Psalm 143:6

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Matthew 10:8

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:32

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:19

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 5:6

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
John 4:14

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Acts 5:32

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.
2 Peter 1:3

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.
Ephesians 1:18

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
John 16:7

Reconciliation

hat is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:19

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:13

If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 18:15

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
Acts 3:19

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 5:10

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10

Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and atone for our sins,
for your name’s sake!
Psalm 79:9

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 2:2

Redeemer