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What does Aslan International Ministry say about Being a Man

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being A Man

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 837 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 731 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …

Titus 2:7 ESV / 619 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 593 helpful votes
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 468 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.”

Psalm 119:9-16 ESV / 460 helpful votes
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes! With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. …

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 435 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 411 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.

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 395 helpful votes
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 321 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 290 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 277 helpful votes
The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;

Ephesians 5:22-25 ESV / 265 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Psalm 112:1-10 ESV / 254 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous. It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice. …

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 248 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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 204 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

James 5:12 ESV / 203 helpful votes
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

1 Peter 5:5-10 ESV / 197 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. …

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 196 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 181 helpful votes
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 170 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 136 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 131 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 2:1-3 ESV / 127 helpful votes
When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 120 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 117 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 113 helpful votes
For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 110 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Ezekiel 22:30 ESV / 108 helpful votes
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 103 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 98 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 93 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 6:10-18 ESV / 91 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, …

1 John 1:9 ESV / 90 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Proverbs 31:2-9 ESV / 87 helpful votes
What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; …

John 3:16 ESV / 85 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.

Judges 6:12 ESV / 84 helpful votes
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.”

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 80 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.

John 1:14 ESV / 78 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

James 1:8 ESV / 77 helpful votes
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 77 helpful votes
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

John 1:1 ESV / 76 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 75 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 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.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 73 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.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 72 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 70 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 70 helpful votes
And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

1 Samuel 16:18 ESV / 70 helpful votes
One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.”

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

John 4:24 ESV / 68 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

1 Samuel 30:6-19 ESV / 62 helpful votes
And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.” So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor. …

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Daniel 10:19 ESV / 57 helpful votes
And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 56 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 55 helpful votes
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

1 Kings 2:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes
“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,

Colossians 2:9 ESV / 46 helpful votes
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 46 helpful votes
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

John 3:6 ESV / 46 helpful votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 45 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 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 44 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 43 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Mark 3:27 ESV / 42 helpful votes
But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. …

John 8:24 ESV / 39 helpful votes
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

Matthew 12:29 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Or how can someone enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 38 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 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

John 8:58 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

John 1:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

John 20:28 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

Micah 7:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.

Jude 1:1-25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. …

Romans 12:1 ESV / 32 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.

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Proverbs 8:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man.

Hebrews 1:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.

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

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 28 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, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 27 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 27 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.

Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 26 helpful votes
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …

What does Aslan International Ministry say about a Good Steward

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being A Good Steward

Titus 1:7-9 ESV / 564 helpful votes
For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 533 helpful votes
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 519 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 419 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 370 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.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 351 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Matthew 25:20-21 ESV / 292 helpful votes
And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Titus 2:7 ESV / 289 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Acts 20:35 ESV / 282 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 240 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 220 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. …

Luke 16:10 ESV / 215 helpful votes
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Proverbs 11:24 ESV / 208 helpful votes
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 202 helpful votes
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

Luke 12:42-46 ESV / 202 helpful votes
And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

1 Corinthians 4:1 ESV / 199 helpful votes
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Mark 12:41-44 ESV / 194 helpful votes
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Leviticus 19:9-10 ESV / 184 helpful votes
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

Proverbs 3:27 ESV / 176 helpful votes
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 161 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 160 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Titus 1:7 ESV / 157 helpful votes
For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 138 helpful votes
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

1 Corinthians 4:1-2 ESV / 133 helpful votes
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 130 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Romans 12:1 ESV / 115 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.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 110 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Luke 12:48 ESV / 109 helpful votes
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 109 helpful votes
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Luke 12:42 ESV / 108 helpful votes
And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?

Matthew 25:15 ESV / 96 helpful votes
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 95 helpful votes
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

James 1:12 ESV / 93 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Luke 16:1-13 ESV / 93 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …

Luke 14:12-14 ESV / 89 helpful votes
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Luke 16:1-8 ESV / 87 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …

Acts 15:28-29 ESV / 86 helpful votes
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Matthew 25:23 ESV / 86 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

2 Corinthians 9:6-7 ESV / 85 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 82 helpful votes
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

1 Timothy 6:6-10 ESV / 81 helpful votes
Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 80 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 79 helpful votes
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Psalm 24:1-2 ESV / 78 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 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. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. …

Luke 19:12-27 ESV / 75 helpful votes
He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ …

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 74 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Luke 8:3 ESV / 71 helpful votes
And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 71 helpful votes
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 25:14 ESV / 70 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.

Revelation 11:18 ESV / 68 helpful votes
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

1 Chronicles 28:8 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

Proverbs 27:18 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

2 Timothy 4:5 ESV / 61 helpful votes
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Genesis 39:4-6 ESV / 61 helpful votes
So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 60 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 60 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Genesis 43:16 ESV / 59 helpful votes
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.”

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 58 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …

Matthew 24:45 ESV / 58 helpful votes
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

Leviticus 19:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

Luke 16:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes
The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

Luke 16:1 ESV / 56 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Deuteronomy 14:22-29 ESV / 56 helpful votes
“You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household. …

Matthew 25:29 ESV / 55 helpful votes
For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

Job 1:21 ESV / 55 helpful votes
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 53 helpful votes
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Matthew 20:8 ESV / 53 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.’

Titus 3:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Titus 1:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 19:15-26 ESV / 52 helpful votes
When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’ And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made five minas.’ And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ …

Romans 13:8 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

John 14:30 ESV / 50 helpful votes
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

Ephesians 5:15-18 ESV / 49 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. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Luke 16:11-12 ESV / 49 helpful votes
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 48 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—

Luke 19:13 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’

2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Luke 12:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 44 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 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Colossians 4:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV / 44 helpful votes
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 42 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 10:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Romans 14:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Matthew 25:14-15 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Matthew 6:20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Being a Good Father

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being A Good Father

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 509 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 434 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 349 helpful votes
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 278 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 266 helpful votes
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 243 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 231 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Luke 11:11-12 ESV / 164 helpful votes
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 151 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 142 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 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, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 116 helpful votes
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

John 3:16 ESV / 112 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 15:11-32 ESV / 110 helpful votes
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. …

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 108 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 108 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. …

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 98 helpful votes
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. …

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 96 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 93 helpful votes
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Proverbs 3:1-12 ESV / 93 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …

Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 90 helpful votes
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 88 helpful votes
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 85 helpful votes
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 84 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.”

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 82 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.

1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 80 helpful votes
For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Matthew 7:9-11 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Luke 15:20 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 69 helpful votes
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 68 helpful votes
For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 68 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Deuteronomy 1:29-31 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Romans 8:15 ESV / 56 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 52 helpful votes
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 52 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 51 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.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 51 helpful votes
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Matthew 6:26 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 48 helpful votes
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 46 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 46 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

John 14:2 ESV / 42 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?

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

Proverbs 3:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,

Psalm 68:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

James 1:17 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Luke 11:13 ESV / 41 helpful votes
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

John 14:6 ESV / 40 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.

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

John 15:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 37 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. 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.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Isaiah 40:30-31 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 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.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 29:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes
I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 33 helpful votes
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Luke 11:11-16 ESV / 33 helpful votes
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,” …

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 32 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,

Luke 12:32 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Matthew 3:7-17 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. …

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 31 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.

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 30 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.

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 28 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. …

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

John 16:21 ESV / 27 helpful votes
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Matthew 10:29-31 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, …

1 John 2:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 24 helpful votes
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 24 helpful votes
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 24 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.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 23 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.”

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Matthew 7:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

1 Thessalonians 2:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For you know how, like a father with his children,

Mark 14:36 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

John 14:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 20 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.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Being a good example

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being A Good Example

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 335 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.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 224 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.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. …

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 108 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 107 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 105 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.

James 4:17 ESV / 99 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 73 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.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 68 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 67 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Titus 2:7 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

James 1:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

1 Peter 4:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 56 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.

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 55 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.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 51 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 48 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 41 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 40 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.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

James 1:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 32 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.

John 13:15 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 29 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 3:16 ESV / 29 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.

Matthew 18:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 27 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.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 27 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 12:1 ESV / 26 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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

James 5:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Titus 2:6-8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Romans 10:14 ESV / 23 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?

John 15:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 Peter 4:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 20 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.

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 19 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 …

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 19 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, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 19 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. …

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 18 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 18 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 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

James 1:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 16 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 16 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.

Psalm 37:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Luke 6:40 ESV / 15 helpful votes
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 14 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. …

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Titus 2:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 13 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.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Mark 10:45 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Being a Father

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being A Father

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

John 3:16 ESV / 12 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.

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Malachi 4:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Hebrews 12:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

John 16:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 5 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.”

Deuteronomy 1:29-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 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.

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. …

Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. …

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 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 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? …

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Acts 22:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Mark 16:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. …

Matthew 7:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 3 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 Chronicles 29:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. …

Exodus 34:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

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,

3 John 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

James 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Hebrews 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 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, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …

1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Philippians 2:5-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 2 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.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 3:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

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.

Acts 15:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.

John 6:22-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. …

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 11:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Matthew 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Proverbs 17:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Proverbs 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,

Proverbs 3:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 2 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. …

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Becoming Weak

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Becoming Weak

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 22 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.

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 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. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. …

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 20 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.

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …

Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 12 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 16:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 9:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Romans 14:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Romans 4:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, …

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Romans 15:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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

Romans 4:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

Habakkuk 3:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 10 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.”

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 9 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.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 9 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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 22:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 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, …

Romans 14:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Romans 4:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Romans 4:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Romans 3:1-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) …

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 3:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

Romans 10:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Romans 14:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

John 16:33 ESV / 6 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.”

John 14:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 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.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 118:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

Psalm 28:7-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.

Psalm 18:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Exodus 15:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 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. …

Romans 8:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Romans 4:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 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.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Luke 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.

1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ESV / 5 helpful votes
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. …

2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 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 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

James 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”

James 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

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

Philemon 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.

2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …

Colossians 1:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 11:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

1 Corinthians 15:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—

1 Corinthians 10:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And all ate the same spiritual food,

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

1 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about becoming a parent

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Becoming A Parent

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

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 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.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

Hebrews 12:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 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, …

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 2 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.”

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. …

2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” …

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Beauty of the Earth

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Beauty Of The Earth

Colossians 1:16-17 ESV / 191 helpful votes
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.

Psalm 19:1 ESV / 172 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 131 helpful votes
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 122 helpful votes
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

John 1:3 ESV / 121 helpful votes
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. …

Psalm 33:5 ESV / 94 helpful votes
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

Psalm 50:2 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 79 helpful votes
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.

Job 12:7-9 ESV / 77 helpful votes
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?

Isaiah 40:26 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

Isaiah 65:17 ESV / 65 helpful votes
“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

Psalm 23:2-3 ESV / 57 helpful votes
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.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 54 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Revelation 4:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 38 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, …

Genesis 1:26-28 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Exodus 20:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Luke 12:27 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 26 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. …

John 3:16 ESV / 23 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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Isaiah 6:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

Hebrews 13:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Genesis 1:1-19:38 ESV / 5 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. …

Psalm 8:1-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. …

Genesis 1:1-5 ESV / 4 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

1 Chronicles 15:1-16:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever. And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers; …

John 6:63 ESV / 1 helpful vote
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Bad Dreams

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Bad Dreams

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 228 helpful votes
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 220 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.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 207 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. …

Daniel 2:28 ESV / 173 helpful votes
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:

John 16:33 ESV / 159 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.”

Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 114 helpful votes
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 99 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 16:13 ESV / 92 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 74 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,

John 14:6 ESV / 62 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.

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” …

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 51 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

John 1:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 5:30 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

1 John 5:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Acts 20:29 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

John 10:30 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I and the Father are one.”

John 3:16 ESV / 29 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.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 27 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.”

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 26 helpful votes
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. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 26 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.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! …

Genesis 16:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.”

John 8:58 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Exodus 3:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 23 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.

Mark 5:39-41 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 4:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”

James 4:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 41:21-23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.

1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.

John 14:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Proverbs 31:6-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

1 Samuel 16:1-23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.” Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?” And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. …

John 15:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

1 Kings 19:1-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” …

Psalm 42:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 63:6-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

1 Chronicles 17:1-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent.” And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.” But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in. For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling. …

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Isaiah 29:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

John 10:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Luke 10:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 7 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 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 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 …

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. …

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 5 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, …

John 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Matthew 2:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

Psalm 91:5-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Psalm 35:1-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Of David. Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!” Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away! …

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 15:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Matthew 18:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 13:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 2:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: …

Daniel 7:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 27:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. …

Psalm 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

Job 33:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,

Job 7:1-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. …

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Genesis 46:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.”

Genesis 28:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!” Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. …

Genesis 20:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

Revelation 21:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel’s measurement.

Daniel 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.

Isaiah 29:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night. As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

Numbers 23:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’

Numbers 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.

Daniel 7:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.

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Awesome God

Deuteronomy 10:17 ESV / 174 helpful votes
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 79 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 78 helpful votes
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Nehemiah 9:6 ESV / 69 helpful votes
“You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 67 helpful votes
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Nehemiah 1:5 ESV / 53 helpful votes
And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 50 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.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 46 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

John 14:26 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

2 Peter 1:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 37 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Psalm 68:35 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

Psalm 92:15 ESV / 35 helpful votes
To declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Psalm 66:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

Deuteronomy 4:31 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

2 Chronicles 19:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”

James 1:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …

James 3:1-18 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! …

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 26 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.

Job 36:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Psalm 66:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

Psalm 89:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Job 37:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 19 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.

Psalm 65:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas;

Deuteronomy 7:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

John 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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

John 3:1-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 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.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Matthew 18:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Psalm 47:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 15 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. …

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 15 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.”

Romans 5:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Luke 10:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 13 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.

Genesis 28:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Titus 1:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 12 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 1:6 ESV / 12 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.

Acts 2:4-8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Psalm 66:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm. Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you. All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. …

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Job 2:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …

Revelation 2:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 11 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 4:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Romans 13:4 ESV / 11 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.

Genesis 28:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

1 Peter 1:15-16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Ezekiel 6:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord God: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Psalm 145:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

1 Samuel 15:29 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”

Deuteronomy 10:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …

Mark 11:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Lamentations 3:38 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Exodus 33:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Ephesians 3:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

Jeremiah 2:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Psalm 16:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

James 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …

Deuteronomy 4:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Acts 4:12 ESV / 6 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 3:16-17 ESV / 6 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.

Matthew 27:46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Amos 3:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?

Job 26:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Titus 2:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Nehemiah 9:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

1 John 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—