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Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 1,619 helpful votes
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.
Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 1,354 helpful votes
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
James 1:17 ESV / 1,128 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 118:24 ESV / 1,003 helpful votes
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 20:4 ESV / 885 helpful votes
May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!
Psalm 91:11 ESV / 675 helpful votes
For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
1 Corinthians 1:3-7 ESV / 530 helpful votes
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 435 helpful votes
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!
3 John 1:2 ESV / 417 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 414 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 65:11 ESV / 395 helpful votes
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 348 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Psalm 90:12 ESV / 304 helpful votes
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Isaiah 43:1-28 ESV / 291 helpful votes
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 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. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 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. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. …
James 1:12 ESV / 262 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Psalm 91:16 ESV / 240 helpful votes
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 213 helpful votes
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV / 202 helpful votes
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Psalm 16:11 ESV / 159 helpful votes
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 158 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 157 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 1:3 ESV / 151 helpful votes
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Matthew 5:8 ESV / 146 helpful votes
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 138 helpful votes
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 113 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 109 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Genesis 40:20 ESV / 104 helpful votes
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Philippians 1:3-4 ESV / 99 helpful votes
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,
James 2:18 ESV / 96 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Acts 2:25-28 ESV / 96 helpful votes
For David says concerning him, “‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 93 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 87 helpful votes
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
Proverbs 8:20-21 ESV / 74 helpful votes
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 73 helpful votes
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.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 67 helpful votes
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Matthew 1:18 ESV / 66 helpful votes
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.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 66 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …
2 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 65 helpful votes
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
Colossians 1:13-16 ESV / 64 helpful votes
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
John 3:16 ESV / 64 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Isaiah 61:1-11 ESV / 64 helpful votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers; …
Ecclesiastes 7:11 ESV / 64 helpful votes
Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
Psalm 71:6 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.
Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV / 61 helpful votes
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Mark 9:37 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”
Matthew 14:6 ESV / 59 helpful votes
But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,
James 2:24 ESV / 57 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Job 1:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes
His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Matthew 11:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 54 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …
Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 50 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
John 18:36 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
Psalm 4:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes
You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 47 helpful votes
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Luke 1:35 ESV / 47 helpful votes
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Matthew 2:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Habakkuk 3:2 ESV / 43 helpful votes
O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
John 16:21 ESV / 42 helpful votes
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
Matthew 2:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Jeremiah 31:16-17 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes
So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 1:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Mark 6:21 ESV / 39 helpful votes
But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
Psalm 139:16 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Job 3:1-26 ESV / 39 helpful votes
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said: “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’ Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. …
Psalm 146:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
Psalm 5:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
Exodus 20:25 ESV / 38 helpful votes
If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.
Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, …
Jeremiah 20:18 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?
Genesis 16:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 35 helpful votes
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
Matthew 19:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
John 8:24 ESV / 33 helpful votes
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.
John 1:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
Jeremiah 3:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Psalm 22:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes
On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
Romans 1:9-10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
Proverbs 4:10-13 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 31:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Genesis 6:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Philippians 4:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
Philippians 2:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Psalm 20:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
Luke 15:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
Psalm 148:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.
Psalm 134:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. …
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 25 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. …
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