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What does Aslan International Ministry say about Agnostic

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Agnostic

Jude 1:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And have mercy on those who doubt;

James 2:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
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 14:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

Romans 10:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 1:15-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

John 14:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 20:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

1 John 5:10-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But test everything; hold fast what is good.

John 3:35-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. 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.

Matthew 12:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Ecclesiastes 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

Romans 3:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 1:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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.

John 3:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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 3:16-18 ESV / 4 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 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 11:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. …

John 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 8:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

Galatians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Acts 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.

Ecclesiastes 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Agnostic

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Agnostic

Jude 1:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And have mercy on those who doubt;

James 2:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
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 14:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

Romans 10:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 1:15-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

John 14:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 20:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

1 John 5:10-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But test everything; hold fast what is good.

John 3:35-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. 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.

Matthew 12:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Ecclesiastes 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

Romans 3:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 1:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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.

John 3:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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 3:16-18 ESV / 4 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 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 11:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. …

John 14:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 8:31-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Jeremiah 22:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

Galatians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Acts 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.

Ecclesiastes 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Aging

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Aging

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 242 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 204 helpful votes
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 194 helpful votes
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 180 helpful votes
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 177 helpful votes
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Job 12:12 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 143 helpful votes
“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Titus 2:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Psalm 92:12-15 ESV / 111 helpful votes
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 109 helpful votes
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.

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 90 helpful votes
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Isaiah 46:3-4 ESV / 85 helpful votes
“Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; 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.

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 85 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 82 helpful votes
They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

Psalm 103:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Job 32:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes
I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 ESV / 72 helpful votes
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”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 64 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 55 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 90:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Joel 2:28 ESV / 53 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes
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.

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 50 helpful votes
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Psalm 91:16 ESV / 48 helpful votes
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Job 5:26 ESV / 47 helpful votes
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Genesis 25:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

1 Chronicles 29:28 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Psalm 71:8-9 ESV / 44 helpful votes
My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

Psalm 71:18-19 ESV / 37 helpful votes
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Job 12:20 ESV / 36 helpful votes
He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

1 Kings 3:14 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Ruth 4:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes
He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Genesis 24:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

1 Kings 12:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Genesis 15:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

James 4:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Luke 2:36-38 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Psalm 143:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 ESV / 29 helpful votes
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”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …

Joshua 14:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Luke 1:36 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Ecclesiastes 12:1-3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
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”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,

Job 42:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Genesis 25:7-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years. Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Job 32:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

Proverbs 10:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Psalm 71:17-18 ESV / 25 helpful votes
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,

Titus 2:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Luke 2:37 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 23 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.

Isaiah 38:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 5:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 23 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. …

Psalm 90:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:

Psalm 71:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

Psalm 71:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. …

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Job 32:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
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.

Exodus 7:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

John 3:16 ESV / 22 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.

Psalm 103:1-5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Job 11:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

Deuteronomy 33:25 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.

Psalm 119:100 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

1 Kings 12:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

James 4:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Proverbs 12:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.

Leviticus 19:1-37 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. …

Genesis 47:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 19 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Genesis 37:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.

Isaiah 47:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

Lamentations 5:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Aggression

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Aggression

James 1:19 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 66 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Matthew 26:52 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.

Ezra 10:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”

Matthew 21:12-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

James 1:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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

Luke 22:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” And he said to them, “It is enough.”

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Luke 22:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 6 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.

Psalm 16:1-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. …

John 16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
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.”

Deuteronomy 4:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

Titus 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 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.

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 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.

John 15:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“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. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 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.

Isaiah 43:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

2 Chronicles 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 John 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 2:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.

James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 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, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Romans 13:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 12:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:18-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, …

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. …

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Luke 18:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
No servant 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.”

Luke 6:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Mark 6:1-56 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. …

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. …

Mark 3:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. …

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
That struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Proverbs 18:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination. Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ..

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Aggression

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Aggression

James 1:19 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 66 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Matthew 26:52 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.

Ezra 10:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”

Matthew 21:12-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

James 1:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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

Luke 22:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” And he said to them, “It is enough.”

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Luke 22:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 6 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.

Psalm 16:1-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. …

John 16:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
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.”

Deuteronomy 4:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?

Titus 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 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.

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 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.

John 15:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“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. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 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.

Isaiah 43:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

2 Chronicles 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 John 4:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 2:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.

James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 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, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Romans 13:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 12:17-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 8:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:18-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, …

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. …

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Luke 18:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
No servant 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.”

Luke 6:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Mark 6:1-56 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. …

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. …

Mark 3:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. …

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
That struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Proverbs 18:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination. Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ..

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Age of Accountability

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Age Of Accountability

Deuteronomy 1:39 ESV / 165 helpful votes
And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

James 4:17 ESV / 131 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 105 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.”

Romans 14:12 ESV / 71 helpful votes
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Isaiah 7:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes
For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 65 helpful votes
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Luke 2:42-46 ESV / 56 helpful votes
And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Matthew 18:3 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

2 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 36 helpful votes
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

Exodus 30:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering.

Numbers 14:28-30 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Numbers 14:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

Romans 7:9-11 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Romans 7:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

2 Samuel 12:22-23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Samuel 12:21-23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

John 3:16 ESV / 15 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 7:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 13 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 51:1-19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. 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! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. …

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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.

John 14:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mark 10:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Romans 7:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

Romans 7:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Luke 1:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

James 5:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Revelation 21:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. …

Romans 10:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

Romans 8:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

Romans 7:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Romans 5:12-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

John 9:41 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 2:41-42 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

Psalm 51:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Revelation 20:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Romans 9:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

John 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Ezekiel 18:1-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— …

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. …

Genesis 18:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Romans 7:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Matthew 18:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Romans 1:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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.

2 Samuel 12:13-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.” Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick. David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. …

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

1 Thessalonians 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Romans 9:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
That I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 7:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Matthew 20:8-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ …

Jonah 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Isaiah 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,

Psalm 51:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

2 Samuel 12:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

Ephesians 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Luke 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
It seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

1 Kings 14:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people. Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.” Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman. …

Genesis 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Romans 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Mark 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

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Deuteronomy 1:39 ESV / 165 helpful votes
And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

James 4:17 ESV / 131 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 105 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.”

Romans 14:12 ESV / 71 helpful votes
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Isaiah 7:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes
For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 65 helpful votes
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Luke 2:42-46 ESV / 56 helpful votes
And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Matthew 18:3 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

2 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 36 helpful votes
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

Exodus 30:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering.

Numbers 14:28-30 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Numbers 14:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

Romans 7:9-11 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Romans 7:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

2 Samuel 12:22-23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Samuel 12:21-23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

John 3:16 ESV / 15 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 7:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 13 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 51:1-19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. 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! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. …

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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 2:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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.

John 14:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mark 10:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Romans 7:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

Romans 7:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Luke 1:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

James 5:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Revelation 21:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. …

Romans 10:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

Romans 8:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

Romans 7:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Romans 5:12-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

John 9:41 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 2:41-42 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

Psalm 51:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

Revelation 20:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Romans 9:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

John 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Ezekiel 18:1-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— …

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. …

Genesis 18:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Romans 7:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Matthew 18:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Romans 1:19-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 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.

2 Samuel 12:13-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.” Then Nathan went to his house. And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick. David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. …

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

1 Thessalonians 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Romans 9:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
That I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 7:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Matthew 20:8-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ …

Jonah 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Isaiah 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,

Psalm 51:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

2 Samuel 12:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

Ephesians 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

John 3:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Luke 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
It seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

1 Kings 14:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people. Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.” Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman. …

Genesis 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Romans 9:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Romans 7:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Mark 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Age Difference

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Age Difference

1 John 4:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

Acts 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Luke 18:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Age Difference

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Age Difference

1 John 4:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

Acts 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Luke 18:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

1 Peter 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Age and Wisdom

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Age And Wisdom

Job 12:12 ESV / 133 helpful votes
Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Job 32:7 ESV / 73 helpful votes
I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 71 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 54 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

James 3:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 32 helpful votes
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Psalm 71:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes
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 43:1-3 ESV / 26 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.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

James 1:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Job 32:6-8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’ But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Colossians 4:5-6 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Job 32:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes
It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

Job 14:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.

1 Timothy 5:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

James 3:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 4:6-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Deuteronomy 32:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Joel 2:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Job 28:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Titus 2:2-3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Psalm 71:18-19 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

1 Kings 12:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 10:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Psalm 91:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Job 12:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Job 5:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

1 Kings 3:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

James 4:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Isaiah 28:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

Proverbs 14:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

Job 32:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Job 32:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

James 1:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 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.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Daniel 2:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
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.”

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

Psalm 143:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

Psalm 119:100 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

Psalm 92:12-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Job 15:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

Job 12:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Job 8:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.

1 Chronicles 29:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Joshua 14:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Genesis 25:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 15:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Peter 1:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
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.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

John 3:16 ESV / 7 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.

Psalm 92:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

1 Kings 14:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people. Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.” Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. And the Lord said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman. …

1 Samuel 12:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

1 Timothy 5:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
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.

Hebrews 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,